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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]
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.
An angel agreed and the village was thenceforth known as Zoar. When God rained fire and brimstone upon Sodom and Gomorrah, Lot's wife looked back at the burning cities of the plain and was turned into a pillar of salt in recompense for her folly. [13] The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot came unto Zoar.
But Lot's wife Edith was stirred with pity for her daughters, who were married in Sodom, and she looked back behind her to see if they were coming after her. And she saw behind the Shechinah, and she became a pillar of salt, as Genesis 19:26 reports, “And his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.” [203]
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]
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 ...
Mount Sodom, Israel, showing a pillar referred to as "Lot's Wife", made of halite. Noah cursed Canaan to be a servant to his brother's servants and a servant to his fathers brothers. (see Curse of Ham) Lot's wife "became a pillar of salt" when she "looked back" when fleeing Sodom and Gomorrah's destruction. [8]