oSee Isa. 15:4-6
Genesis 19:20-30
20Behold, this city is near enough to flee to, and it is a little one. Let me escape there—is it not a little one?—and my life will be saved!” 21He said to him, “Behold, I grant you this favor also, that I will not overthrow the city of which you have spoken. 22Escape there quickly, for I can do nothing till you arrive there.” Therefore the name of the city was called aZoar. ▼▼ Zoar means little
God Destroys Sodom
23The sun had risen on the earth when Lot came to Zoar. 24Then cthe Lord rained on Sodom and Gomorrah sulfur and fire from the Lord out of heaven. 25And he overthrew those cities, and all the valley, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground. 26But Lot’s wife, behind him, looked back, and she became da pillar of salt.27And Abraham went early in the morning to the place where he had estood before the Lord. 28And he looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah and toward all the land of the valley, and he looked and, behold, the smoke of the land went up like the smoke of a furnace.
29So it was that, when God destroyed the cities of the valley, God fremembered Abraham and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow when he overthrew the cities in which Lot had lived.
Lot and His Daughters
30Now Lot went up out of Zoar and glived in the hills with his two daughters, for he was afraid to live in Zoar. So he lived in a cave with his two daughters.Deuteronomy 34:3
3 hthe Negeb, and ithe Plain, that is, the Valley of Jericho jthe city of palm trees, as far as kZoar.Isaiah 15:5
5My heart cries out for Moab;her fugitives flee to Zoar,
to lEglath-shelishiyah.
For at the mascent of Luhith
they go up weeping;
on the road to nHoronaim
they raise a cry of destruction;
Jeremiah 48:34
34 o“From the outcry at Heshbon even to Elealeh, as far as Jahaz they utter their voice, from Zoar to pHoronaim and Eglath-shelishiyah. For the waters of Nimrim also have become desolate.
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