Genesis 19:25

and he destroyed those cities and all the plain, with all the people who lived in it and all that grew on the ground.

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In The King James Version

And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.

In Context

24Then the Lord caused brimstone and fire from heaven to rain upon Sodom and Gomorrah,

26But Lot’s wife, who was following him, looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.

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Cross References

Genesis 14:3All these joined forces together in the valley of Siddim (that is, the Dead Sea).

Zephaniah 2:9Therefore as I live, says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Moab will be like Sodom, and the Ammonites like Gomorrah, a pile of nettles and saltpits, and a desolation, forever. The residue of my people will plunder them, and the survivors of my nation will inherit them.

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 →

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