[Wuli]

That’s one version.

The one I heard is that she was to remain, like salt, unchanged, as salt does not really break down much, it mixes in things but becomes part of them, not changing itself.

Lot’s wife could not accept the change that G-d demanded of her family - to leave Sodom and never look back. She’d liked their properous life in Sodom and hated to leave, hated to change; and as they journeyed she was “looking back”, not “changing”, just like a pillar of salt.

[Flaming Conservative]

Lot’s wife could not accept the change that G-d demanded of her family - to leave Sodom and never look back. She’d liked their properous life in Sodom and hated to leave,

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The Bible says Lot went on with just his two daughters and himself. Like mother like daughters -— they both got their father drunk so he would “lay with them”. The resulting two sons were the forebears of Moab and Ammon.
Lot, early on, showed himself to be unworthy. First, he asked for (and got) the best parcel of land, then took a foolish wife, then moved to a City so sinful God determined to destroy it, then offered to let the wicked men of the city use his daughters for sex, then had to be nearly dragged out of the city, to keep from being destroyed, then allowed his two daughters to get him drunk, and have sex with him. What a guy!

[Vermont Lt]

Ot, there are pillars of salt all around the place. And it makes for a great ending. (Which it is.)