Genesis 19:26

Overview - Genesis 19
1	Lot entertains two angels.
4	The vicious Sodomites are smitten with blindness.
12	Lot is warned, and in vain warns his sons-in-law.
15	He is directed to flee with his family to the mountains, but obtains leave to go into Zoar.
24	Sodom and Gomorrah are destroyed.
26	Lot's wife becomes a pillar of salt.
29	Lot dwells in a cave.
31	The incestuous origin of Moab and Ammon.

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Genesis 19:26 (King James Version)
But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.

looked: This unhappy woman, says the Rev; T. Scott, "looked back," contrary to God's express command, perhaps with a hope of returning, which latter supposition is favoured by our Lord's words, "Let him not return back: remember Lot's wife." She was, therefore, instantaneously struck dead and petrified, and thus remained to after ages a visible monument of the Divine displeasure.; 17 ; Proverbs 14:14 ; Luke 17:31 Luke 17:32 ; Hebrews 10:38
and: Numbers 16:38