Zoara, the biblical Zoar, previously called Bela, (,) was one of the five (Pentapolis) cities of the plain of JordanGenesis 14:2-8 in Genesis in the Tanakh or Old Testament, which escaped the "brimstone and fire" which destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, for having sheltered Lot and his daughters.Genesis 19:22-30 It is mentioned by Josephus;Ant.