Genesis 19:27
And Avraham got up early in the boker to the makom where he stood there before Hashem;
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the LORD:
In Context
26But his isha, from behind him, looked back, and she became a netziv melach (pillar of salt).
Cross References
Genesis 18:22And the Men turned their faces from thence, and went toward Sodom; but Avraham stood yet before Hashem.
Ezekiel 16:49Hinei, this was the avon Sodom thy achot; ga'on (pride), over fullness of lechem, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her banot, neither did she strengthen the yad of the oni (poor) and evyon (needy).
Hebrews 2:1In considering all this, it is necessary for us to pay far greater attention bifraht (particularly) to the things we have heard, lest from it we may drift away.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 19:27
26 But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt. This also is written for our admonition. Our Saviour refers to it ( Luke xvii. 32 ), Remember Lot's wife. As by the example of Sodom the wicked are warned to turn from their wickedness, so by the example of Lot's wife the righteous are warned not to turn from their righteousness. See Ezek. iii. 18 , 20 . We have here, I. The sin of Lot's wife: She looked back from behind him. This seemed a small thing, but we are sure, by the punishment… Read the whole commentary →