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How did the angels protect Lot from the mob outside his house?

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Sodom and Gomorrah *Landscape with the Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah*, oil on wood by Joachim Patinir, c. 1520; in the collection of the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands.

In the biblical account of Sodom and Gomorrah, when a mob of townsmen surrounded Lot’s house and attempted to storm the door to reach his angelic guests, the angels intervened to protect Lot. They pulled him inside the house and struck the men of the town with blindness, preventing them from finding the door.12