Genesis 19:22-30 ▼

22 Hurry up and flee there, because I cannot do anything until you get to that town.| Therefore the name of the town was called Zoar.

23 The sun had risen over the land about the time Lot reached Zoar.

24 Then the LORD rained sulfur and fire out of the sky from the LORD on Sodom and Gomorrah,

25 overthrowing those cities, all of the plain, and everyone who lived in the cities. He also destroyed the plants that grew out of the ground.

26 But Lot's wife looked back as she lingered behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.

27 Abraham went early in the morning to the place where he had stood before the LORD earlier.

28 He looked off toward Sodom, Gomorrah, and the entire plain, and he saw smoke rising from the land like smoke from a furnace.

29 And so it was that, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, he remembered Abraham and brought Lot out from the midst of the destruction when he overthrew the cities where Lot had lived.

30 Later on, Lot and his two daughters abandoned Zoar and settled in the hills because Lot was afraid to live in Zoar. He lived there in a cave, along with his two daughters.