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Ibn Ezra on Genesis 19:26/אבן עזרא על בראשית י״ט:כ״ו
אמאחריו. מאחרי לוט:
1FROM BEHIND HIM. From behind Lot.42, who interpreted the word to mean from behind her.
בנציב. כטעם מצבה כי נשרפו עצמית בגפרית, והיתה עם מלח כי כן כתוב "גפרית ומלח וגו' כמהפכת סדום" (דברים כט כב) גם זה הפסוק יורה שנמלטה צוער, גם כן אמר המלאך:
2A PILLAR. Nitziv (pillar) means the same as matzevah.43 is the term usually used for pillar, hence I.E.’s comment. Her bones were burned by brimstone and she was encrusted in salt,44 (with salt) to be an error for ammud melech (a pillar of salt). for it is written, brimstone, and salt…like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim45 (Deut. 29:22). This verse also shows that Zoar was not destroyed.46 The latter is also borne out by the words of the angel.47 (v. 21).