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A rock formation nearby venerated as Lot's wife as a pillar of salt. The Monastery of St Lot is a Byzantine-period monastic site near the Dead Sea in Jordan, at the entrance to a natural cave, which Christians believed to have been the one where Lot and his daughters sought shelter after Sodom was destroyed (Genesis 19:24–25). [1]
Lot's wife (center) turned into a pillar of salt during Sodom's destruction (Nuremberg Chronicle, 1493). The story appears to be based in part on a folk legend explaining a geographic feature. [3] A pillar of salt named "Lot's wife" is located near the Dead Sea at Mount Sodom in Israel. [4]
The pillar of salt into which Lot's wife was transformed in the Biblical account of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah; Pillar of Salt (road sign), a road sign in Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk, England, thought to be the first internally illuminated road sign in the country; Pillar of Salt, a 1958 Hungarian film; A Pillar of Salt, a 2021 album ...
The island is a basalt pillar with sheer sides, the only visible portion of a submarine volcanic caldera extending 2.6 kilometres (1.6 mi) south-east at an average depth of 240 metres (790 ft). The above sea-level portion measures approximately 84 metres east-west and 56 metres north-south, with a summit height of 99 metres (325 ft).
Southeast Farallon Islands (from nautical chart of 1957) A Fata Morgana mirage of the Farallon Islands, as viewed from San Francisco. The Farallon Islands / f æ r ə l ɔː n / FA-ra-lon, [2] or Farallones (from Spanish farallón 'pillar, sea cliff'), are a group of islands and sea stacks in the Gulf of the Farallones, off the coast of San Francisco, California, United States.
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A shipwreck dating back to the 5th and 6th centuries B.C. was discovered near Sicily along with ancient anchors made from stone and iron, Italian officials said. The 2,500-year-old wreck was found ...
Lot's wife disobeyed and looked back, and she was immediately turned into a pillar of salt as punishment for her disobedience. An allusion to Lot's wife or to a pillar of salt is usually a reference to someone who unwisely chooses to look back once they have begun on a course of action or to someone who disobeys an explicit rule or command.