19:15 At dawn ¹  the angels hurried Lot along, saying, “Get going! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, ²  or else you will be destroyed when the city is judged!” ³  19:16 When Lot ⁴  hesitated, the men grabbed his hand and the hands of his wife and two daughters because the Lord had compassion on them. ⁵  They led them away and placed them ⁶  outside the city. 19:17 When they had brought them outside, they ⁷  said, “Run ⁸  for your lives! Don’t look ⁹  behind you or stop anywhere in the valley! ¹⁰  Escape to the mountains or you will be destroyed!”

19:18 But Lot said to them, “No, please, Lord! ¹¹  19:19 Your ¹²  servant has found favor with you, ¹³  and you have shown me great ¹⁴  kindness ¹⁵  by sparing ¹⁶  my life. But I am not able to escape to the mountains because ¹⁷  this disaster will overtake ¹⁸  me and I’ll die. ¹⁹  19:20 Look, this town ²⁰  over here is close enough to escape to, and it’s just a little one. ²¹  Let me go there. ²²  It’s just a little place, isn’t it? ²³  Then I’ll survive.” ²⁴ 

19:21 “Very well,” he replied, ²⁵  “I will grant this request too ²⁶  and will not overthrow ²⁷  the town you mentioned. 19:22 Run there quickly, ²⁸  for I cannot do anything until you arrive there.” (This incident explains why the town was called Zoar.) ²⁹ 

19:23 The sun had just risen ³⁰  over the land as Lot reached Zoar. ³¹  19:24 Then the Lord rained down ³²  sulfur and fire ³³  on Sodom and Gomorrah. It was sent down from the sky by the Lord. ³⁴  19:25 So he overthrew those cities and all that region, ³⁵  including all the inhabitants of the cities and the vegetation that grew ³⁶  from the ground. 19:26 But Lot’s ³⁷  wife looked back longingly ³⁸  and was turned into a pillar of salt.