Genesis 19:26

But Lot’s wife, who was following him, looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.

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

In Context

25and he destroyed those cities and all the plain, with all the people who lived in it and all that grew on the ground.

27Early in the morning Abraham rose and went to the place where he had stood before the Lord;

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Cross References

Luke 17:31On that day, if a person is on their house-top and their goods in the house, they must not go down to get them; nor again must one who is on the farm turn back.

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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