Genesis 19:26
And his wife looks from behind him, and she becomes a pillar of salt!
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.
In Context
27And Abraham rises early in the morning to the place where he has stood [before] the face of YHWH;
Cross References
Numbers 16:38[As for] the censers of these sinners against their own souls, indeed, they have made them [into] spread-out plates [for] a covering for the altar, for they have brought them near before YHWH, and they are hallowed; and they become a sign to the sons of Israel.”
Luke 17:31in that day, he who will be on the housetop, and his vessels in the house, do not let him come down to take them away; and he in the field, in like manner, do not let him turn backward;
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 →