Genesis 19:22

I cannot do any thing Mercy limits the exercise of Divine Justice. "The righteous" is not to be consumed "with the wicked" (Genesis 18:23).

Zoar See note on Genesis 14:2. Zoar is identified by tradition with a spot on the S.E. of the Dead Sea, where a peninsula projects from the coast. Cf. Genesis 13:10; Deuteronomy 34:3; Isaiah 15:5; Jeremiah 48:34. The name in the LXX Σηγώρ, Lat. Segor, gave the Dead Sea the name of the Sea of Zugar in the Middle Ages.