Genesis 19:25
He completely destroyed the towns and all their inhabitants, the whole valley and everything growing there.
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24Then the Lord rained down fire and burning sulfur from the sky on Sodom and Gomorrah.
26But Lot's wife, who was lagging behind, looked back, and she turned into a pillar of salt.
Cross References
Genesis 14:3All these in the second group joined forces in the Valley of Siddim (the Dead Sea valley).
Jeremiah 20:16May that man be like the towns that the Lord destroyed without mercy. May he hear shouts of alarm in the morning and war cries at noon,
Zephaniah 2:9Consequently, as I live, declares the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, the Moabites will become like Sodom, and the Ammonites like Gomorrah. Their land will become a place of weeds and salt pits and ruins forever. Those who remain of my people will plunder them and occupy their land.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 19:25-26
Here is, I. The rescue of Lot out of Sodom. Though there were not ten righteous men in Sodom, for whose sakes it might be spared, yet that one righteous man that was among them delivered his own soul, Ezek. xiv. 14 . Early in the morning his own guests, in kindness to him, turned him out of doors, and his family with him, v. 15 . His daughters that were married perished with their unbelieving husbands; but those that continued with him were preserved with him. Observe, 1. With what a gracious violence Lot was… Read the whole commentary →