Deuteronomy 29:23

The whole country will be a burning wasteland of sulfur and salt. Nothing is sown; it's totally unproductive; no plant grows there—just like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord destroyed in his furious anger.

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In The King James Version

And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:

In Context

22Later generations, your descendants and foreigners from far away, will see how the Lord has brought disaster on the country and devastated it.

24Everyone everywhere will ask, “Why did the Lord do this to the country? Why did he get so terribly angry?”

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Cross References

Genesis 14:2They attacked Bera, king of Sodom, Birsha, king of Gomorrah, Shinab, king of Admah, Shemeber, king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (otherwise known as Zoar).

Leviticus 26:32I will devastate your land myself, so that your enemies who come and live in it will be horrified at what has happened.

1 Kings 9:8This Temple will become a pile of rubble. All who pass by it will be appalled and will hiss, saying, ‘Why has the Lord acted in such a way to this land and this Temple?’

Job 18:15People they don't know will live in their homes; sulfur will be scattered where they used to live.

Isaiah 34:9Edom's streams will be turned into tar, its soil into sulfur, and her land will become burning tar!

Jeremiah 17:6They will be like a shrub alone in the desert that isn't even aware when good things happen. It just goes on living in the dry desert, in a salt flat that's uninhabited.

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 29:11-29

The Covenant Renewed. ( b. c. 1451.) 10 Ye stand this day all of you before the Lord your God; your captains of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, with all the men of Israel, 11 Your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that is in thy camp, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water: 12 That thou shouldest enter into covenant with the Lord thy God, and into his oath, which the Lord thy God maketh with thee this day: 13 That he may establish thee to day for a people unto himself, and… Read the whole commentary →

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