Genesis 19:26

But his wife + 19:26. Quoted in Luke 17:32 looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

25He overthrew those cities, all the plain, all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew on the ground.

27Abraham [Father of a multitude] got up early in the morning to the place where he had stood before Adonai.

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Cross References

Numbers 16:38even the censers of these people who sin ·intentionally miss the mark goal· against their own lives. Let them be made beaten plates for a covering of the altar, for they offered them before Adonai. Therefore they are holy. They shall be a sign to the children of Israel [God prevails].”

Luke 17:31In that day, he who will be on the housetop, and his goods in the house, let him not go down to take them away. Let him who is in the field likewise not 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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