Genesis 13:13

(The people of Sodom were very wicked, committing terrible sins that offended the Lord.)

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In The King James Version

But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly.

In Context

12Abram went to live in the land of Canaan, while Lot settled down among the towns in the valley, setting up his tents near Sodom.

14After separating from Lot, the Lord told Abram, “Look around you from where you're standing, to the north, south, east, and west.

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Cross References

Genesis 6:11God saw how corrupt the whole world had become, full of violent and lawless people.

Genesis 15:16Four generations later your descendants will come back here to live, because right now the sins of the Amorites have not reached their full extent.”

Genesis 19:4But they hadn't even gone to bed before the men of Sodom, young and old, from every part of town, came and surrounded the house.

Genesis 38:7But Er did what was evil in the Lord's sight, so the Lord put him to death.

1 Samuel 15:18Then he sent you out to do something, telling you, ‘Go and exterminate those sinners, the Amalekites. Attack them until they're all destroyed.’

Isaiah 1:9If the Lord Almighty hadn't let a few of us survive, we would have become like Sodom and Gomorrah.

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 →

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