Lot's Wife Pillar, Mount Sodom

The Zohar valley is identified by scholars as the Edom Way mentioned in 2 Kings 3. It hosts the ruins of a fortress and an observation tower.

Mount Sodom is made of 80% salt and is home to the longest single running salt cave in the world.

Lot's Wife Pillar is a salt pillar standing on top of Mount Sodom.

The Zohar valley is identified by scholars as the Edom Way mentioned in 2 Kings 3. It hosts the ruins of a fortress and an observation tower.

In the last day of our Dead Sea trip We decided to get in the car and explore the south of the Dead Sea region No matter where you turn here You’ll find something of biblical and historical significance There’s just endless routes and paths and little roads into the mountains And monuments and structures in the mountains

Pool reservations New pools that are formed because the Dead Sea drying out and.. It’s incredible There’s so much to do here This is so cool In this episode Well explore the valley of the Zohar brook Which is mentioned in the Bible as the way of Edom And well explore the ancient Roman fortress That stands on top of a marl-stone hill Were in a very interesting location In the middle of this valley Surrounded by just limestone, rock There’s a fortress Then we’ll continue south to Mt Sodom Which has a peculiar looking pillar Named after Lots wife that Lots wife?

And underneath it a cave Which some believe to be the place where Lot dwelt with his daughters So join us on an adventure in this marvelous and unique place on earth In the south of the Dead Sea There is a place called Zohar Brook It is not to be confused with Zoar The place to which Lot escaped from Sodom and Gomorra Even though these two sound similar in English In Hebrew language they’re entirely different words The entrance to this valley is somewhat hard to spot It’s a little turn from the main road 90 Which takes you on a dirt road.

And then a few yards later It leads you to a scenic drive By the edge of a cliff In between beautiful lime stone and marl stone mountains This road is believed to be the way of Edom Mentioned in II Kings 3 When the king of Israel Judah And Edom Went to fight the Moabites And to get to Moab They took this way But after seven days they ran out of water And after Elishas prayer God provided an abundance of water To this valley Even though There was no rain.

So scholars believe that this location Fits the biblical story Because it rains a far off in the mountains So you cannot hear the rain But then the rain water does not get observed into the ground But rather drains down the mountains Into this valley Filling The cisterns and the water dams That they excavated here A few years back archeologists started digging and looking into The history behind this place What they were surprised to find There’s very little information left Behind who lived here Who were the people

Why this fortress was built And what was this road So few different theories started to be developed

One of them is that this fortress is built

Mount Sodom is made of 80% salt and is home to the longest single running salt cave in the world. Lot's Wife Pillar is a salt pillar standing on top of Mount Sodom.

In a very strategically place in the Centre of the Edom way This way is believed to later become the trade route During the Roman-Byzantine Or the Crusader- Mamluk periods To carry the salt produced in the Dead Sea Into the heart of the land And historians speculate That this fortress Served to protect the road And perhaps even collect taxes on the salt trade There is even a lookout tower Carved out of the bedrock Located in front of the fortress It would be a great place for soldiers to observe The incoming traffic But all these are theories which have not much archeological support First survey dated this fortress to the Roman time While a later conducted survey placed it into the Crusader period

The lack of archeological evidence to build a proper storyline.

Can be contributed to the easily crumbling marl-stone Look at this What looks like once used to be steps Is now.. Look at this It’s all looks like just one Slide It crumbles so easily You don't want to attempt to climb this Eshet Lot (Hebrew- Lots wife) Lots wife Mitzpe (Hebrew- Look out) Look.. Look.. Wow.. Look at that Look at that rock There are two pillars for Lots wife One in Jordan and one in Israel The Jordanian pillar has a much better shape of a human And an interesting cave with archeological findings from the Iron Age While the Israeli pillar looks more like giant rock With a salt cave underneath It would make no sense to figure out which one is the real pillar.

Because according to the book of Genesis The pillar shouldn’t even be above the cave at all But rather in the plain That’s Lots wife?

So what we see here today Is just a reminder of the story rather than an artifact I don’t know It looks like Lots wife was.. Maybe a relative of like the.. Nephilim, Goliath or the Anakin or.. I don’t know

But the interesting part about this place is the actual mountain Rather than the pillar itself This mountain is called Mt Sodom And if you examine it with your eyes You’ll notice that there are no plants or vegetation on it That is because Mt Sodom is made of 80% salt It is one giant mountain of salt

And since salt dissolved much faster than limestone This mountain is home to the longest single natural salt cave In the world It is nearly 2.5 miles long And until recently It was open to the public.

But today it had been closed Due to the danger of falling salt rocks The cave of Lot and his daughters where they hid After they left Zoar Zoar is south of Dead Sea And it says from there they left and went to dwell in the caves So it’s very much possible they dwelt in caves like these over here You know when we read about it And you read that they Lived in a..

They went up to the mountains and in a cave there In my.. In my head, mountains are.. You know Those green Where you have a lot of trees and everything But the mountains in this area I.. I never thought about it like that And it must not been easy Especially in the heat and all that But there are plenty of caves in those mountains I mean plenty It’s amazing.. it’s amazing.

Yeah and there are sources of water You gotta know where they are But if you don’t, you’ll die out here

Cause that sea is so salty You can’t drink it No there’s no way You can do nothing with it So to get fresh water you gotta know where You gotta know where those reservoirs are Where the streams are Otherwise you die in here

This is nice a little bit of shade You know after swimming in the Dead Sea Like the oily part Because its oily and salty and everything And then you stand in the sun and it feels somebody is frying you Deep fried And you don’t need like seasoning because we have salt.

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