Genesis Chapters 16-19

Chapter 16
Sarai gives her servant girl Hagar to Abram, so that he can have a child. When Hagar conceives, Sarai throws her out of the house (b/c Hagar had begun to look upon Sarai with contempt). While wandering, Hara meets an angel who conveinces her to return & submit to Sarai. Of her son, though, the angel says " He shall be a wild ass of a man, which his hand against everyone, and everyone's hand against him... " This sound more like a curse to me than a blessing. Hagar gives birth to Abram's son, Ishmael
Chapter 17
Abram becomes Abraham and Sarai becomes Sarah. The L-rd promises Abraham that Sara will give birth to a son. At the L-rd's bidding, Abraham circumcises all of the males. Ow!
Chapter 18
Men stop by Abraham's tent. He feeds them & they tell him that he and Sarah will have a child by next year. Sarah thinks this is funny b/c she is past child bearing years. Then G-d wants to destroy Sodom & Gomorrah. He tells Abraham about it & Abraham challenges him. Can you believe the nerve of him? I certainly don't think I'd have the nerve to challenge G-d.
Chapter 19
Two angels come to visit Sodom & Lot insists that they take refuge in his house. The town of Sodom however comes to Lot's house and demands them. He refuses and instead OFFERS UP HIS 2 VIRGIN DAUGHTERS TO DO WITH AS THEY PLEASE to the crowd. I guess Lot must have been pretty sure that they were angels, b/c I'm not sure I would offer up virgin daughters to protect strangers passing by. But instead of anything bad hapening to his daughters, the angels decide to protect him by using their super powers.
The angels tell Lot that they are going to destroy the city and that he should flee. Lot tries to get his son-in-laws and daughters to flee with him, but they will not. Then comes more bargaining with G-d. The angels ask Lot to flee the plains all together. Instead, Lot flees to Zoar, which is not quite as far away. While they are fleeing Lot's wife looks back and turns into a pillar of salt. I get the whole being destroyed for looking back, but don't quite get the being turned into a pillar of salt thing.
The last little bit of Chapter 19 is just twisted. Lot fled Sodom with his two virgin daughters & he takes them to live in the hills. The daughters decide they don't have a chance with men, so they get Lot drunk and sleep with him. The eldest daughter has a son named Moab (who begets the Moabites) and the younger had a sone named Benammi (who begets the Ammonites). That's just an f'ed up end to the story of Lot.
Chapter 20 goes back to following Abraham, so I think that's then end of Lot (at least for now.)