Genesis 13:13
The people that lived in Sodom were very bad. They were always going against God and doing bad things all the time.
Barkly (portions)
In The King James Version
But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly.
In Context
Cross References
Genesis 6:11Everyone else on the earth was living in a rubbish way. They were fighting and hurting each other all the time.
Genesis 15:16And I will bring your family back here to this country that I have promised to you. The Amorite people that live in this country do really bad things. They go against me all the time and they are getting worse and worse. And so, after your grandchildren have grandchildren, I will take this country away from the Amorite people and give it to your family.”
Genesis 19:4Before the angels went to sleep, all the men in Sodom, both young and old, went to stand around Lot's house and they shouted, “Where are the 2 men that came to your house tonight? Bring them out here so that we can take them to bed.”
Genesis 38:7But Er, Judah's firstborn son, was always going against God and doing bad things and so God killed him.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 13:11-14
Lot's Removal to Sodom. ( b. c. 1917.) 10 And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere, before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the Lord , like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar. 11 Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other. 12 Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom. 13… Read the whole commentary →