²⁷ Abraham went up early the next morning to the place where he [only the day before] had stood before the Lord.

²⁸ And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the valley, and saw, and behold, the smoke of ^[a]the country went up like the smoke of a furnace.

²⁹ When God ravaged and destroyed the cities of the plain [of Siddim], He [earnestly] remembered Abraham [imprinted and fixed him indelibly on His mind], and He sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow when He overthrew the cities where Lot lived.