²⁷ Early the next morning, Abraham got up and went to the place where he had stood before the Lord. ²⁸ He looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah and all the ·Jordan Valley [^Lvalley; or plain] and saw smoke rising from the land, like smoke from a furnace.

²⁹ God destroyed the cities in the ·valley [or plain], but he remembered what Abraham had asked. So ·God saved Lot’s life, but he [^Lhe sent Lot out of the overthrow/upheaval when he] ·destroyed [overturned] the city where Lot had lived [Deut. 29:23; Is. 1:9; 13:19; Jer. 50:40; Amos 4:11; Matt. 10:15; 11:23–24; Jude 1:7; Rev. 11:8].