Then God rained sulfur and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah and all the Plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground.
Lot says that the hills are too far away and asks to go to Zoar instead. The angels tell Lot “…because the outcry against its people has become great before the Lord, and the Lord has sent us to destroy it.” The next morning, because Lot had lingered, the angels seized Lot, Lot’s wife, and his two daughters and take them out of the city and tell him to flee to the hills. Lot offers the mob his virgin daughters to “do to them as you please”, but they refuse and threaten to do worse to Lot. Lot welcomes them into his home, but all the men of the town surround the house and demand that he surrender the visitors that they may “ know” them.
Sodom and Gomorrah’s destruction in the background of Lucas van Leyden‘s Lot and his Daughters (1520)
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