22 Run there quickly, for I cannot do anything until you arrive there.” (This incident explains why the town was called Zoar.)
23 The sun had just risen over the land as Lot reached Zoar.
24 Then the Lord rained down sulfur and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah. It was sent down from the sky by the Lord.
25 So he overthrew those cities and all that region, including all the inhabitants of the cities and the vegetation that grew from the ground.
26 But Lot’s wife looked back longingly and was turned into a pillar of salt.
27 Abraham got up early in the morning and went to the place where he had stood before the Lord.
28 He looked out toward Sodom and Gomorrah and all the land of that region. As he did so, he saw the smoke rising up from the land like smoke from a furnace.