Genesis 19:28

and as he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah and all the plain, he saw the smoke of the land going up as the smoke of a smelting-furnace.

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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.

In Context

27Early in the morning Abraham rose and went to the place where he had stood before the Lord;

29God had remembered Abraham when he destroyed the cities of the plain and rescued Lot from the destruction.

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Cross References

Psalms 107:34fruitful land into a salt waste, because of the sin of the people.

2 Peter 2:7but he rescued righteous Lot, whose heart was vexed by the wanton licentiousness of his neighbors;

Revelation 9:2He opened the bottomless pit, and from the pit rose a smoke like the smoke of a great furnace. The sun and the air grew dark because of the smoke from the pit.

Revelation 18:9All the kings of the earth who had licentious intercourse with her and shared her luxury will weep and lament over her, when they see the smoke from the burning city,

Revelation 19:3Again they cried – ‘Hallelujah!’ And the smoke from her ruins rises for ever and ever.

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 →

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