It came to pass, when they had taken them out, that he said, “Escape for your life! Don’t look behind you, and don’t stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountains, lest you be consumed!”
⛓ Read Genesis 19 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion3
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
The angels' command 'do not look behind you... lest you be consumed' is the prohibition Lot's wife violated and the imperative behind 'let him not go down... not turn back.' The flee-without-looking-back instruction is closely reproduced, giving high Volume.
High confidence'Flee to the mountains... do not look back, do not stop' (the angels to Lot at Sodom) underlies the urgent flight commands — not going back from the roof or field for possessions. The Sodom-escape pattern of immediate, possession-abandoning flight before judgment coheres with Mark's instructions (cf. Luke's explicit 'remember Lot's wife').
Medium confidence'flee to the mountains' and do not turn back to take anything echoes the angelic command to Lot, 'Flee to the hills... do not look back,' the paradigm of urgent escape from a doomed place before destruction falls.
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'Looking back' as fatal hesitation may glance at Lot's wife, the proverbial backward look that forfeits deliverance. Faint and figural relative to the dominant Elisha frame; contested.
Low confidence