Lot and his family lived in the wicked city of Sodom, where two angels visited to warn them of its impending destruction. Despite Lot's plea, his future sons-in-law refused to leave, and the angels had to physically lead Lot and his family out of the city before it was destroyed by fire and brimstone. Lot's wife looked back against the angels' warning and was turned into a pillar of salt, while Lot and his daughters were saved.

2. Abraham’s nephew Lot and his family had chosen to live on a fertile plain in a city
called Sodom. The people there were very wicked as were people living in the
neighboring city, Gomorrah. Two of the strangers that had visited Abraham were
angels sent by God to destroy these sinful cities.

3. The two angels, looking like men, made their way to the city of Sodom where Lot
lived with his wife and two daughters. Lot was sitting by the city gate.

4. Lot bowed down when he saw the two strangers and invited them to stay at his
house. “No, we will spend the night in the square,” they replied. But Lot insisted
they stay at his house.

5. Lot prepared bread made without yeast and gave them a meal.

6. Outside, news of the two strangers’ arrival had spread through the city and all
the men, young and old, surrounded Lot’s house. The mob demanded the
two men be handed over to them.

7. Lot went out to the mob locking the door behind him. “No,” he shouted, “Don’t do
this wicked thing. They are my guests.” “Lot, you are a foreigner living in our city
and now you want to play the judge,” the angry men shouted. “We’ll treat you
worse than we were going to treat them.”

8. The men surged forward to break the door down. The two angels reached out
and pulled Lot back inside and closed the door. Then they struck the men
outside with blindness so they could not find the door.

9. “Do you have any relatives in this city?” the angels asked Lot. “The wickedness in
this place is so great that the Lord God has sent us to destroy it.”

10. Lot went to find two local men who were pledged to marry his daughters. “Hurry
and get out,” he warned them, “the Lord is about to destroy this city.” His future
sons-in-law thought he was joking and were not willing to leave.

11. As dawn approached, the two angels urged Lot, his wife and daughters to
get out of the city. “Hurry,” they demanded, “Or you will be swept away when
the city is punished.” When they hesitated the angels grabbed their hands and
led them out safely out of the city, for the Lord was merciful to them.

12. “Flee for you lives,” one of the angels ordered. “Don’t look back. Head for the
mountains and don’t stop anywhere on the plain.”

13. “You have shown great mercy in sparing my life,” Lot told them. “But I can’t flee
to the mountains in time and I will die. Look, there is a small town near enough for
me to run to. Let me flee there to shelter.” “Very well,” one of the angels replied,
“That town will be spared, but get there quickly.”

14. As Lot reached the town, the sun had risen over the land. Then the Lord sent
burning sulfur (brimstone) on the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah destroying all
those living in the cities—and also the vegetation in the land.

15. Lot’s wife however ignored the warning not to look back. She became a pillar of
salt.

16. The Lord spared the lives of Lot and his two daughters who were sheltered in the
town of Zoar.

17. Early the next morning Abraham looked down over Sodom and Gomorrah. He
saw dense smoke, like the smoke from a furnace, rising all over the plain. God
had destroyed the wicked people that lived there but spared his nephew
Lot and his two daughters.

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