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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 "Lot's Wife" pillar on Mount Sodom, Israel, made of halite Salt cave in Mount Sodom Bedded halite at Mount Sodom. Mount Sodom (Hebrew: הר סדום, Har Sedom) is a hill along the southwestern part of the Dead Sea in Israel; it is part of the Judaean Desert Nature Reserve. [1]
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]
A California father was killed when he shoved his family out of the path of a runaway car — taking the hit himself. Adam Bouvet, 50, was walking back from lunch with his wife, two daughters and ...
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 ...
Fresno police and other emergency crew personnel responded around 10 p.m. to a crash involving three vehicles occurred a few blocks north of the intersection of Champlain Drive and Friant Road.
[2]: 465 While fleeing Lot's wife broke the looking taboo, looked back at the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah and was turned into a pillar of salt as punishment. [3] [2]: 466 In Greek mythology Medusa had a hideous appearance so that anyone who looked upon her was turned to stone. [4]
A Michigan couple died in two separate accidents between Christmas and New Year's Day, according to local officials. Scott Levitan, 66, and Mary Lou Levitan, also 66, were both residents of ...