The salt rock formation you see below in the Dead Sea region is attributed to the pillar of salt which Lot's Wife turned into. The mountain range called Sodom Mountains (11km by 3km) composed almost entirely (98%) of salt, runs parallel to the Dead Sea near this structure. Sodom Mountains are rich with caves of unique beauty formed by water dissolving the salt inside. However, entrance to most of these caves are forbidden at present due to danger of avalanches.
Lot's wife's transformation into a salt pillar is mentioned in the Book of Genesis. "And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he (Lord) said, Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed. And Lot said unto them, Oh, not so, my Lord…….. Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven; And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground. But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt" (Genesis 19:17-26).
Interestingly, she appears in New Testament also as Jesus Christ remembers her as "Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed. In that day, he which shall be upon the housetop, and his stuff in the house, let him not come down to take it away: and he that is in the field, let him likewise not return back. Remember Lot's wife. Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it (Luke 17:28-33)."
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