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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]
In the Quran it was written that Lot's wife stayed behind, as she had transgressed. She met her fate in the disaster, and only Lot and his family were saved during the destruction of their city, [115] with the understanding that the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah are identified in Genesis, but "the location remains unnamed in the Qur'an" [116]
English: 'Lot's Wife' sea-stack, Marsden Bay. Lot's wife is a figure from the Biblical book of Genesis known for being punished by being turned into a pillar of salt Lot's wife. A geological formation on Mount Sodom in Israel overlooking the Dead Sea is called 'Lot's Wife', because of the shape and location of the feature.
Lot's wife looked back and turned into a pillar of salt. [34] The next morning, Abraham hurried to the place where he had stood before God and looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah and saw the smoke rising like at a kiln. [35] Lot was afraid to dwell in Zoar, so he settled in a cave in the hill country with his two daughters. [36]
His wife is left as a pillar of salt on the road behind. The Flight of Lot and His Family from Sodom (after Rubens), by Jacob Jordaens, c. 1620 (National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo) Later, after God had changed Abram's name to Abraham and Sarai's name to Sarah as part of the covenant of the pieces, God appeared to Abraham in the form of three ...
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 Catholics believed to have been the one where Lot and his daughters sought shelter after Sodom was destroyed (Genesis 19:24–25). [1]
During the escape from Sodom, Lot's wife is turned into a pillar of salt. Lot and his daughters take shelter in Zoar, but afterwards go up into the mountains to live in a cave. Concerned for their father having descendants, one evening, Lot's eldest daughter gets Lot drunk and has sex with him without his knowledge.