Genesis 19:24
Then the Lord sent fire and flaming smoke raining down from heaven on Sodom and Gomorrah.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven;
In Context
23The sun was up when Lot came to Zoar.
Cross References
Genesis 13:10And Lot, lifting up his eyes and looking an the valley of Jordan, saw that it was well watered everywhere, before the Lord had sent destruction on Sodom and Gomorrah; it was like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, on the way to Zoar.
Deuteronomy 29:22And future generations, your children coming after you, and travellers from far countries, will say, when they see the punishments of that land and the diseases which the Lord has sent on it;
Job 18:15In his tent will be seen that which is not his, burning stone is dropped on his house.
Isaiah 1:9If the Lord of armies had not kept some at least of us safe, we would have been like Sodom, and the fate of Gomorrah would have been ours.
Jeremiah 20:16May that man be like the towns overturned by the Lord without mercy: let a cry for help come to his ears in the morning, and the sound of war in the middle of the day;
Jeremiah 49:18As at the downfall of Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighbouring towns, says the Lord, no man will be living in it, no son of man will have a resting-place there.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 19:16-24
15 And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters, which are here; lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city. 16 And while he lingered, the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters; the Lord being merciful unto him: and they brought him forth, and set him without the city. 17 And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; look not behind… Read the whole commentary →