20. Look, this city is close enough to flee to, and it is a little one. Please, let me escape there (is it not a little one?), and my life will be saved.”
21. He said to him, “I have granted your request in this matter also. I will not overthrow this city of which you have spoken.
22. Hurry, escape there, for I cannot do anything until you arrive there.” Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.
23. The sun had risen over the land when Lot entered Zoar.
24. Then the Lord rained brimstone and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah. It was from the Lord out of heaven.
25. So He overthrew those cities, all the valley, all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground.
26. But his wife, behind him, looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.
27. Now Abraham got up early in the morning and went to the place where he stood before the Lord.
28. Then he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the valley, and he saw the smoke of the land going up like the smoke of a furnace.
29. So it was that when God destroyed the cities of the valley, God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the middle of the destruction, when He overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.