And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.
Lot looked around the Jordan Valley and saw that it had plenty of water everywhere. This was before God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah. The area reminded him of the Garden of the Lord and the land of Egypt, all the way to a place called Zoar.