“I have overthrown some of y’all, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and y’all were like a burning stick plucked out of the fire, yet y’all haven’t returned to me,” says YHWH.
Who is wise, that he may understand these things? Who is prudent, that he may know them? For the ways of YHWH are right, and the righteous walk in them, but the rebellious stumble in them.
When God destroyed the cities of the plain, God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the middle of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.