19 24 and then the LORD rained down fire and brimstone from the skies on Sodom and Gomorrah. 19 25 He overthrew those cities and destroyed all the Plain, with everyone living there and everything growing in the ground. 19 26 But Lot's wife, behind him, looked back, and she turned into a pillar of salt. 19 27 Next morning Abraham rose early and went to the place where he had stood in the presence of the LORD. 19 28 He looked down towards Sodom and Gomorrah and all the wide extent of the Plain, and there he saw thick smoke rising high from the earth like the smoke of a lime-kiln.
19 29 Thus, when God destroyed the cities of the Plain, he thought of Abraham and rescued Lot from the disaster, the overthrow of the cities where he had been living.