Genesis 19:26

But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.

JPS TaNaKH 1917

In The King James Version

But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.

In Context

25and He overthrow those cities, and all the Plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.

27And Abraham got up early in the morning to the place where he had stood before the LORD.

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Cross References

Numbers 16:38(17-3) even the fire-pans of these men who have sinned at the cost of their lives, and let them be made beaten plates for a covering of the altar — for they are become holy, because they were offered before the LORD — that they may be a sign unto the children of Israel.'

Matthew Henry on Genesis 19:25-26

Here is, I. The rescue of Lot out of Sodom. Though there were not ten righteous men in Sodom, for whose sakes it might be spared, yet that one righteous man that was among them delivered his own soul, Ezek. xiv. 14 . Early in the morning his own guests, in kindness to him, turned him out of doors, and his family with him, v. 15 . His daughters that were married perished with their unbelieving husbands; but those that continued with him were preserved with him. Observe, 1. With what a gracious violence Lot was… Read the whole commentary →

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