Zoar


the city where Lot and his family took refuge during the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. Gen. 19:20–30.
Historical Examples

Only Zoar with three therein (Lot and his daughters) are saved.
Early English Alliterative Poems Various

He made good speed, and reached Zoar when “the sun was risen.”
Bible Romances George W. Foote

Mercy had almost conducted her to Zoar–Guilt transported her to the abyss of wo!
Female Scripture Biographies, Vol. I Francis Augustus Cox

Kalisch says that “about the situation of Zoar there remains little doubt.”
Bible Romances George W. Foote

He accordingly went eastward across the plain and reached Zoar, just as the sun was rising.
Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, Vol. V, No. XXIX., October, 1852 Various

Upon this land they raised a small chapel, and dedicated it to Zoar.
Our Churches and Chapels Atticus

Pleasing as is the first impression of Zoar, the conviction soon grows upon one that the site has its serious disadvantages.
With the Harmony to Labrador Benjamin La Trobe

I had a good dinner by the time the boys got back from Zoar—a excellent one.
Samantha at the World’s Fair Marietta Holley

The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar.
Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror Richard Linthicum

As at Hopedale and Zoar, this runs off a trough about a hundred yards from the house.
With the Harmony to Labrador Benjamin La Trobe

small, a town on the east or south-east of the Dead Sea, to which Lot and his daughters fled from Sodom (Gen. 19:22, 23). It was originally called Bela (14:2, 8). It is referred to by the prophets Isaiah (15:5) and Jeremiah (48:34). Its ruins are still seen at the opening of the ravine of Kerak, the Kir-Moab referred to in 2 Kings 3, the modern Tell esh-Shaghur.

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