19. Your servant has found favor with you, and you have shown me great kindness by sparing my life. But I am not able to escape to the mountains because this disaster will overtake me and I’ll die.
20. Look, this town over here is close enough to escape to, and it’s just a little one. Let me go there. It’s just a little place, isn’t it? Then I’ll survive.”
21. “Very well,” he replied, “I will grant this request too and will not overthrow the town you mentioned.
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.