Hosea 11:8
How can I give you up, Ephraim? How can I let you go, Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I treat you like Zeboiim? My heart is breaking; I am full of compassion.
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Genesis 14:8Then the king of Sodom, the king of Gomorrah, the king of Admah, the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (otherwise known as Zoar) marched out and prepared for battle in the Valley of Siddim.
Deuteronomy 29:22Later generations, your descendants and foreigners from far away, will see how the Lord has brought disaster on the country and devastated it.
Deuteronomy 32:36The Lord is going to vindicate his people; he will be merciful to his servants when he sees that they have no strength left, and that everyone is gone, whether slave or free.
2 Samuel 24:16But just as the angel was getting ready to destroy Jerusalem, the Lord relented from causing such a disaster and told the destroying angel, “That's enough. You can stop now.” Right then the angel of the Lord was standing beside the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.
2 Chronicles 36:15Again and again the Lord, the God of their fathers, warned his people through his prophets, because he wanted to show mercy to them and to his Temple.
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 Hosea 11:2-8
God's Goodness to Israel; The Ingratitude of Israel; God's Displeasure with Israel. ( b. c. 730.) 1 When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt. 2 As they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed unto Baalim, and burned incense to graven images. 3 I taught Ephraim also to go, taking them by their arms; but they knew not that I healed them. 4 I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love: and I was to them as they that take off the yoke on their jaws, and I laid meat… Read the whole commentary →