Genesis 19:26

And his wife looked behind her, and she became a statue of salt.

Targum Onkelos

In The King James Version

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

In Context

25and destroyed those cities and all the plain, and all the dwellers in the cities and the herbage of the earth.

27And Abraham ascended in the morning to the place where he had ministered in prayer before the Lord;

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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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