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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]
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.
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]
[76] [73] Lot's wife (who came from Sodom) had disapproved of her husband welcoming the strangers into their home; her asking for salt from neighbors had alerted the mob which came to Lot's door. As punishment she was turned into a pillar of salt. [77]
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]
Only Lot and his daughters were saved. Lot's wife disobeyed God's instruction not to look back, and was turned into a pillar of salt. The fiery red color is characteristic of John Martin's dramatic scenes of destruction. The swirling storm in heaven was also a frequent feature of his paintings.
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]
The biblical story of Lot's wife, who was turned into a pillar of salt because she looked back at the town she was fleeing, is "often compared to the story of Orpheus and his wife Eurydice." [ 12 ] Cultural depictions