Turning Lot’s Wife into a Pillar of Salt (Genesis 19:26) (1/10)

An absurdly petty and cruel punishment. Here we have a woman fleeing for her life from a city that God himself is obliterating in a fiery apocalypse, and yet she’s struck down merely for glancing back at the destruction. Think about that: in the midst of chaos, panic, and probably the most traumatizing event of her life, she makes the entirely human mistake of looking behind her—and God turns her into a literal salt statue for it.

And what about Lot? For a man already traumatized from fleeing his home, witnessing the fiery destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, and losing his possessions, this act would have been devastating. God didn’t just destroy Lot’s wife—he stripped Lot of his partner, someone who had shared his life and struggles.