No Shrines in Sodom

I am on a reading through the Bible plan from the ESV Study Bible from the YouVersion online bible.
I would be further along, but I stopped the McCheyne plan and began again the ESV.
In the reading today from Genesis 13, I read of Lot and Abraham. Both men had become very wealthy and the two men's herdsmen could not get along. Abraham had journeyed back to the place where he had first called upon the name of the Lord between Bethel and Ai.
It was Abraham, who said to Lot, in order for their to be no strife, choose where you would like to go.
Lot, as human nature would have it, lifted up his eyes and saw that the Jordon Valley was well watered everywhere like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, in the direction of Zoar, or Sodom and Gomorrah.
Abraham did not choose what the flesh would call the best, but settled in the land of Canaan, while Lot moved his tent close to the wicked and sinful men of Sodom.
No altar in Sodom was constructed by Lot to God.
It was after this separation that God spoke to Abraham, that even from the dust he could make of him a great nation.
So Abraham moved his tent and came and settled by the oaks of Mamre, which are at Hebron, and there he built an altar to the Lord.
And so to this day, the fallen heart would choose Sodom  over Mamre, for to our natural eye, it so resembles the garden, though but a shimmering mirage upon the desert sand.