Genesis 19:28
and he looks on the face of Sodom and Gomorrah, and on all the face of the land of the circuit, and sees, and behold, the smoke of the land went up as smoke of the furnace.
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27And Abraham rises early in the morning to the place where he has stood [before] the face of YHWH;
Cross References
Psalms 107:34A fruitful land becomes a barren place, || For the wickedness of its inhabitants.
2 Peter 2:7and He rescued righteous Lot, worn down by the conduct of the lawless in licentiousness,
Revelation 9:2and [he] opened the pit of the abyss, and there came up a smoke out of the pit as smoke of a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened from the smoke of the pit.
Revelation 18:9and the kings of the earth will weep over her and strike themselves for her, who committed whoredom and indulged with her, when they may see the smoke of her burning,
Revelation 19:3and a second time they said, “Hallelujah”; and her smoke comes up through the ages of the ages!
Matthew Henry on Genesis 19:28-30
27 And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the Lord : 28 And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace. 29 And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in the which Lot dwelt. Our communion with God consists in our gracious regard to him and his… Read the whole commentary →