Genesis 19:12-29 - Lot Leaves Sodom, And The Cities Are Destroyed
12 Do you have any other relatives here in the city? The angels asked. Get them out of this place, sons-in-law, sons, daughters, or anyone else. 13 We will destroy the city completely. The stench of the place has reached Jehovah. He has sent us to destroy it.
14 Lot rushed out to tell his sons-in-law: Hurry! Get out of the city! Jehovah is going to destroy it. But the young men thought he was only joking.
15 At dawn the next morning the angels became insistent. They said to Lot: Hurry! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here. Get out of here right now, or you will be caught in the destruction of the city. 16 Lot still hesitated. So the angels seized his hand and the hands of his wife and two daughters and rushed them to safety outside the city, for Jehovah was merciful.
17 Run for your lives! The angels warned. Do not stop and do not look behind you! Escape to the mountains, or you will die.
18 Oh no, my lords, please, Lot begged. 19 You have been so kind to me and saved my life, and you have granted me such mercy. But I cannot go to the mountains. Disaster would catch up to me there, and I would soon die. 20 There is a small village nearby. Please let me go there instead. Do you see how small it is? Then my life will be saved.
21 The angel said to him: All right, I will grant you this request too. I will not destroy the city you are talking about. 22 Run there quickly! I cannot do anything until you get there. The city is named Zoar [Small].
23 The sun had just risen over the land as Lot came to Zoar. 24 Jehovah made burning sulfur and fire rain out of the sky on Sodom and Gomorrah. 25 He destroyed those cities, the whole Plain, all who lived in the cities, and whatever grew on the ground. 26 Lot's wife looked back and turned into a pillar of salt.
27 Early the next morning Abraham came to the place where he had stood in front of Jehovah. 28 He looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah and all the land in the Plain. He saw smoke rising from the land like the thick smoke of a furnace. 29 When God destroyed the cities of the valley where Lot was living, he kept Abraham in mind and allowed Lot to escape to safety.