looked toward.. different word from Genesis 19:27. Abraham bent forward and looked with awe and grief.
smoke. It does not say he saw the cities, but only the smoke.
Related Commentaries of Genesis 19:28
Genesis 19:28
28 And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.