Lot's wife of life. She was deemed unworthy to be saved and thus was turned to a pillar of salt. Another view in the Jewish exegesis of Genesis 19:26, is that when Lot's wife looked back, she turned to a pillar of salt upon the "sight of God," who was descending down to rain destruction upon Sodom and Gomorrah. One reason that is given in the tradition is that she turned back to look in order to see if her daughters, who were married to men of Sodom, were coming or not. Another Jewish legend says that because Lot's wife sinned with
Covenant of 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 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