In the Bible, who's wife was turned into a pillar of salt?
"her Egyptian handmaiden, Hagar, as a second wife. Through Hagar, Abraham fathers Ishmael. God resolves to destroy the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah for the sins of their people. Abraham protests and gets God to agree not to destroy the cities if 10 righteous men can be found. Angels save Abraham's nephew Lot and his family, but his wife looks back on the destruction against their command and is turned into a pillar of salt. Lot's daughters, concerned that they are fugitives who will never find husbands, get him drunk to become pregnant by him, and give birth to the"
"However, as Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed with brimstone and fire from the Lord, Lot's wife looked back at the city, and she became a pillar of salt. Major and minor prophets in the Hebrew Bible have referred to Sodom and Gomorrah to parallel their prophetic events. The New Testament also contains passages of parallels to the destruction and surrounding events that pertained to these cities and those who were involved. Later deuterocanonical texts attempt to glean additional insights about these cities of the Jordan Plain and their residents. Moses referred to the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah in :"
"and took Lot and his family out of the city, as reports, “But he lingered; and the men laid hold upon his hand.” The angels told Lot and his family not to look behind, for the Shechinah had descended to rain brimstone and fire upon Sodom and Gomorrah. But Lot’s wife Edith was stirred with pity for her daughters, who were married in Sodom, and she looked back behind her to see if they were coming after her. And she saw behind the Shechinah, and she became a pillar of salt, as reports, “And his wife looked back from behind"
"commanded Lot to gather his family and leave. As they made their escape, one angel commanded Lot to ""look not behind thee"" (singular ""thee""). However, as Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed with brimstone and fire from the Lord, Lot's wife looked back at the city, and she became a pillar of salt. In Abrahamic religions, Sodom and Gomorrah have become synonymous with impenitent sin, and their fall with a proverbial manifestation of divine retribution. The Genesis flood narrative has similarities to ancient flood stories told worldwide. One of the closest parallels is the Mesopotamian myth of a world flood, recorded"
"reference to the biblical story of the wife of Abraham's nephew. She was transformed into a pillar of salt when she disobeyed divine orders not to look back at the destruction of Sodom while fleeing from the city. It is argued that the two rocky outcrops are the two hills of Temasek named in Yuan sources as Long Ya Men (Dragon's Teeth Gate) since they resembled two dragon's teeth between which a passage of water runs. Another name ""Ling Ya Men"" () is recorded in the Song dynasty work ""Zhu Fan Zhi"", however it is usually considered to be a"
"""tree of life"" (Genesis ii. 9) as ""tree of healing"", explaining that the fruit of the tree possessed the virtue of healing the sick, without, however, bestowing eternal life. In regard to the transformation of Lot's wife into a pillar of salt (Gen. xix. 26) he explains that, disbelieving in the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, she lingered on the road, and was overtaken by the rain of brimstone and fire, which are usually mixed with salt. Well acquainted with the Vulgate and Christian Biblical exegesis, Joseph, in commenting on Psalm ii., cites Jerome, whose explanation of the word he"
"Lot (biblical person) Lot (; ) was a patriarch in the biblical Book of Genesis chapters 11–14 and 19. Notable events in his life include his journey with his uncle Abram (Abraham) and his flight from the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, during which Lot's wife became a pillar of salt, and Lot had sexual relations with his daughters so that they could bear children. Lot and his father Haran were born and raised in Ur of the Chaldees () in the region of Sumeria on the River Euphrates of lower Mesopotamia. Haran died in that land before his father"
"and his family flee the city with Lot and his wife, who looks back at Sodom as it is being destroyed by fire and brimstone and turns into a pillar of salt. The next day, they encounter a man selling household goods including pots, pans, hats, etc., which is believed to be God in disguise. Ten years later, Noah and his family are skilled farmers, and his sons are now adults. Lot is also now a villain, as he kills another man for his shoes, and reveals that he used to have faith in God after He sent down the"
"and annihilated the entire plain. Lot's wife looked back, and she turned into a pillar of salt. Next morning, Abraham hurried to the place where he had stood before God and looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah and saw the smoke rising like at a kiln. Lot was afraid to dwell in Zoar, so he settled in a cave in the hill country with his two daughters. The older daughter told the younger that their father was old, and there was not a man on earth with whom to have children, so she proposed that they get Lot drunk and"
"to not look back. The following morning, God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah with a shower of fiery stones from the sky. Lot's wife looked back to see the burning city and was turned into a pillar of salt. The story continues further after the destruction of the twin cities, with Lot leaving Zoar (where he had fled for refuge) with his two daughters to live in a cave. Fearing that all the men were dead, the daughters decided that in order to 'preserve the seed of their father' and procreate, they must have sexual intercourse with him; they decide to"
"Pontius Pilate's wife Pontius Pilate's wife, otherwise unnamed in the Bible, appears in a single verse of the Gospel of Matthew, where she tries to persuade her husband not to condemn Jesus to death. She is named as Procla or Procula in early Christian tradition (later also ""Percula"", ""Claudia Procula"" or ""Claudia Procles""). She is considered a saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. She is first named as Claudia in 1619, in the chronicle of ""Pseudo-Dexter"". In the New Testament, the only reference to Pontius Pilate's wife exists in a single sentence by Matthew: The"
"Salt in the Bible The role of salt in the Bible is relevant to understanding Hebrew society during the Old Testament and New Testament periods. Salt is a necessity of life and was a mineral that was used since ancient times in many cultures as a seasoning, a preservative, a disinfectant, a component of ceremonial offerings, and as a unit of exchange. The Bible contains numerous references to salt. In various contexts, it is used metaphorically to signify permanence, loyalty, durability, fidelity, usefulness, value, and purification. The main source of salt in the region was the area of the Dead"
"strike them with blindness, and then warn Lot to leave the city before it is destroyed. Lot's wife turns into a pillar of salt, but Lot and his daughters escape to Zoar, and end up living in a cave in the mountains. In Genesis Lot's daughters get their father drunk, and over two consecutive nights have sex with him without his knowledge. They both get pregnant. The older daughter gives birth to Moab, while the younger daughter gives birth to Ammon. Lot's daughters may have feared that they were the last humans on earth and wanted to preserve the human"
"within the game manual with a Biblical quote. For example, one of Malachi's attacking powers turns an enemy into a statue of salt. This power is explained via the following quote: ""But Lot's wife looked back from behind him and she became a pillar of salt. - Genesis 19:26."" Certain locations have followed this theme too, with humanity's starship named Leviathan after a sea monster from the Old Testament. The game's concept and premise were heavily inspired by John Milton's poem ""Paradise Lost"". In contrast to the interconnected world seen in the final game, early in development the plan was"
"oven, destroying the bread. When she exclaimed then that the deluge was commencing, God suddenly cancels his former command lest Noah destroy his own daughter-in-law who was to be saved. An early Arabic work known as ""Kitab al-Magall"" or the ""Book of Rolls"" (part of Clementine literature), the Syriac Book of the ""Cave of Treasures"" (c. 350), and Patriarch Eutychius of Alexandria (c. 930) all agree in naming Noah's wife as ""Haykêl, the daughter of Namûs (or Namousa), the daughter of Enoch, the brother of Methuselah""; the first of these sources elsewhere calls Haikal ""the daughter of Mashamos, son of"
"the people of Israel when their leaders fall into sin, a similar statement is made about the story of Solomon and his Egyptian wife. The Talmud at Sanhedrin 21b says that ""When Solomon married Pharaoh's daughter, Gabriel descended and stuck a reed in the sea, which gathered a sand-bank around it, on which was built the great city of Rome."" According to the ""Kebra Nagast"" of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, Pharaoh's daughter tricked Solomon into committing idolatry by making him swear an oath. In the text she was upset that he has slept with the Queen of Sheba and"
"connects to the story of Matthew 27:19.<ref name=""ehrman/plese 519n2"">Ehrman and Pleše 2011, p. 519</ref> Pilate and his wife are here portrayed as Christian converts.<ref name=""ehrman/plese 517"">Ehrman and Pleše 2011, p. 517.</ref> The apocryphal Gospel of Nicodemus, also known as ""Acta Pilati"", probably written around the middle of the 4th century, gives a more elaborate version of the episode of the dream than Matthew, and names Pilate's wife as ""Procula"". Procula is recognized as a saint in two churches within the Eastern Christian tradition: the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. In the Eastern Orthodox Church, she is celebrated"
"""aliyah""), Laban answered Jacob that they were his daughters, his children, and his flocks, but asked what he could do about it now. Instead, Laban proposed that they make a covenant, and Jacob set up a stone pillar and with his kin heaped stones, and they ate a meal by the heap. Laban called it Jegar-sahadutha, but Jacob called it Galeed. Laban called the heap as a witness between him and Jacob, and invoked God to watch, when they were apart, if Jacob would afflict Laban's daughters and take other wives. And Laban designated the heap and the pillar as"
"and lived in dire poverty. They made their home in a barn and slept on straw; Akiva picked the straw out of his wife's hair. Akiva promised his wife, ""If I would have the means, I would make for you a 'Jerusalem of Gold' [a golden hair ornament depicting the city of Jerusalem]"". The Talmud goes on to state that Elijah the prophet appeared at their door in the form of a pauper and begged them for some straw to make his wife comfortable after giving birth. When Akiva and his wife saw that there were people even poorer than"
"Gospel narrative continues that Pilate was being pressured to sentence Christ to death, but ""washed his hands"", asserting that ""I am innocent of this man's blood"" (see Blood curse, Jewish deicide). In the 3rd century, Origen suggested in his ""Homilies on Matthew"" that the wife of Pilate had become a Christian, or at least that God sent her the dream mentioned by Matthew so that she would convert. This interpretation was shared by several theologians of Antiquity and the Middle Ages. The apocryphal ""Letter of Pilate to Herod"", dating from around the 3rd–4th century, names Pilate's wife as ""Procla"" and"
"you shall season with salt; you shall not allow the salt of the covenant of your God to be lacking from your grain offering. With all your offerings you shall offer salt."" Covenant of salt The phrase covenant of salt appears twice in the Hebrew bible: In the Book of Numbers, God's covenant with the Aaronic priesthood is said to be a covenant of salt. In the second book of Chronicles, God's covenant with the Davidic kings of Israel is also described as a covenant of salt. According to the ""New Oxford Annotated Bible"", ""of salt"" most likely means that"
"His sins included idolatry, marrying foreign women and, ultimately, turning away from Yahweh, and they led to the kingdom's being torn in two during the reign of his son Rehoboam. Solomon is the subject of many other later references and legends, most notably in the 1st-century apocryphal work known as the Testament of Solomon. In the New Testament, he is portrayed as a teacher of wisdom excelled by Jesus, and as arrayed in glory, but excelled by ""the lilies of the field"". In later years, in mostly non-biblical circles, Solomon also came to be known as a magician and an"
"Jezebel, a priestess of Baal and the daughter of the king of Sidon in Phoenicia. These solutions brought security and economic prosperity to Israel for a time, but did not bring peace with the Israelite prophets, who were interested in a strict deuteronomic interpretation of the religious law. Under Ahab's kingship, these tensions were exacerbated. Ahab built a temple for Baal, and his wife Jezebel brought a large entourage of priests and prophets of Baal and Asherah into the country. It is in this context that Elijah is introduced in as Elijah ""the Tishbite"". He warns Ahab that there will"
"Covenant of salt The phrase covenant of salt appears twice in the Hebrew bible: In the Book of Numbers, God's covenant with the Aaronic priesthood is said to be a covenant of salt. In the second book of Chronicles, God's covenant with the Davidic kings of Israel is also described as a covenant of salt. According to the ""New Oxford Annotated Bible"", ""of salt"" most likely means that the covenant is ""a perpetual covenant, because of the use of salt as a preservative"". The commandments regarding grain offerings in the Book of Leviticus state ""every offering of your grain offering"
"lived in Ur and was a nephew of Ibrahim (Abraham). He migrated with Ibrahim to Canaan and was commissioned as a prophet to the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. He was commanded by Allah to go to the land of Sodom and Gomorrah to preach monotheism and to stop them from their lustful and violent acts. Lut's messages were ignored by the inhabitants, prompting Sodom and Gomorrah's destruction. Though Lut left the city, his wife looked behind and was destroyed. In the Quran, surah (chapter) 26 Ash-Shu`arā' (The Poets) – Lot's wife is named in and mentioned by Jesus at"
"Bathsheba Bathsheba was the wife of Uriah the Hittite and later of David, according to the Hebrew Bible. She is most known for the biblical narrative in which she was summoned by King David, who had seen her bathing and lusted after her. She was the mother of Solomon, who succeeded David as king, making her the Queen mother. Bathsheba was the daughter of Eliam (, Ammiel in ). An Eliam is mentioned in as the son of Ahithophel, who is described as the Gilonite. Bathsheba was the wife of Uriah the Hittite. David's first interactions with Bathsheba are described"
"as a metaphor in the Bible. In the New Testament, Matthew 5:13, Jesus said, ""You are the salt of the earth"". He added that if the salt loses its flavor, it is good for nothing but to be trampled. In addition, the preservative quality of salt is in view here to show how the disciples were called to preserve the society and the world around them from moral decay. On another occasion, according to the Gospels, Jesus commanded his followers to ""...have salt within them."" In Luke 14:34-35 Jesus concludes a series of parables on the cost of following him"
"I have been grieved by their adulterous hearts, which have turned away from me, and by their eyes, which have lusted after their idols"". This led to a broken covenant between Yahweh and Israel and ""divorce"", manifested as defeat by King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon followed by exile, from which the northern kingdom never recovered. The psalmist described idols as being made of gold, silver, wood, and stone. They are described as being only the work of men's hands, unable to speak, see, hear, smell, eat, grasp, or feel, and powerless either to injure or to benefit. The psalmist, and also"
"called on Moses to restrain them. But Moses told Joshua: ""Would that all the Lord's people were prophets, that the Lord put His spirit upon them!"" In the seventh reading (, ""aliyah""), a wind from God then swept quail from the sea and strewed them all around the camp at a place called Kibroth Hattaavah (""Graves of Craving""), and the people gathered quail for two days. While the meat was still between their teeth, God struck the people with a plague. Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses, saying: ""He married a Cushite woman!"" and ""Has the Lord spoken only through"
"salt forever"" (Hebrew ""brith melach olam ברית מלח עולם), or ""a statute forever"" (Hebrew ""chukat olam""). In Midrashic sources the priestly covenant is one of five everlasting covenants. The first person listed in the Hebrew Bible as a ""priest"" (Hebrew ""kohen"") is Melchizedek. Midrashic literature details that due to Melchizedek preceding the name of Abraham to God, the priesthood was taken from him and given to Abraham who passed it on to his son Isaac who in turn passed it on to his son Jacob. Maimonides, in his Mishna Torah compilation, explains that Jacob separated his son Levi from his"
"that after the Flood he might repeople the earth (Tan., Bereshit, 39; ""Sefer haYashar,"" section ""Noa?""). The other explanation is that God rendered him impotent until he reached the age of 500, saying: ""If his children be wicked, he will be afflicted by their destruction; and if they be upright like their father, they will be troubled with making so many arks"" (Genesis Rabba 26.2). The ""Sefer haYashar"" (l.c.) and Genesis Rabba (22.4) both agree that Noah's wife was called Naamah. According to the latter, she was the sister of Tubal-cain (Genesis 4.21); according to the former, she was a"
"failed to reach the target midway, fell down and started digging the ground there and formed a stream. Gbenara was a powerful man. Jakpa used to transport salt from Daboya. The wives of the two men became friends and used to visit each other. One day the wife of Jakpa gave some salt to Gbenara’s wife and taught her how to use it. But unknowingly anyone who ate the salt would be captured spiritually. Gbenara ate some of the food which his wife cooked using the salt and he liked it. He gave some to his elders and warriors to"
"in a fit of jealousy, accused his wife of being unfaithful — the ritual of the ""sotah"". The man was to bring his wife to the priest, along with barley flour as a meal offering of jealousy. The priest was to dissolve some earth from the floor of the Tabernacle into some sacral water in an earthen vessel. The priest was to bare the woman's head, place the meal offering on her hands, and adjure the woman: if innocent, to be immune to harm from the water of bitterness, but if guilty, to be cursed to have her thigh sag"