“And the vale of Siddim was full of slimepits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and fell there; and they that remained fled to the mountain.”
The Valley of Siddim is full of tar pits, and when the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah flee, some of their men fall into them, and the rest flee to the hills. The terrain becomes part of the story: the tar pits that the fleeing kings knew were there become the disaster for their own forces. The geography that was home turf became a death trap. Proverbs 26:27 observes that whoever digs a pit may fall into it — the pits of the Valley of Siddim are the literal version of that principle in this narrative. The defeat is complete: some fall, the rest flee. The cities of the plain are now defenseless, and the eastern coalition can take what they came for.
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