2 Peter 2:6

And if Hashem judged the cities of S'dom and Amora, reducing them to ashes by a churban catastrophe, making them a mofet (an example) for the ones intending to be resha'im;

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly;

In Context

5And if Hashem, when he brought a mabbul (flood) upon the world of resha'im (evildoers), did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noach, the eighth of the nefashot + 2:5 in the Teva (Ark) and a maggid of Tzidkanut (Righteousness);

7And if Hashem delivered Lot, a tzaddik distressed by the hitnahagut (conduct) of the mufkarim + 2:7 2:8,10; 3:17 (lawless) walking in darchei zimah (the ways of licentiousness)

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Cross References

Genesis 19:28And he looked down toward Sodom and Amora, and toward all the eretz of the plain, and hinei, he saw kitor (smoke, steam) of the eretz go up like kitor of a furnace.

Deuteronomy 29:23Even Kol HaGoyim shall say, Why hath Hashem done thus unto this land? What meaneth the heat of this af hagadol (great anger)?

Jeremiah 50:40As Elohim overthrew Sodom and Amora (Gomorrah) and the neighboring towns thereof, saith Hashem; so shall no ish abide there, neither shall any ben adam dwell therein. 1

Hosea 11:8How shall I give thee up, Ephrayim? 1 How shall I hand thee over, Yisroel? 1 How shall I make thee as Admah? 1 How shall I make thee as Tzevoyim? 1 Mine lev is turned within Me, 1 My relentings are kindled together. 1

Zephaniah 2:9Therefore as I live, 1 saith Hashem Tzva'os, Elohei Yisroel: 1 Surely Moav shall be as Sodom, 1 and the Bnei Ammon as Amora (Gomorrah), 1 a place of weeds and salt pits, 1 and desolation ad olam; 1 the She'erit Ami shall plunder them, 1 and the remnant of My nation shall possess them. 1

1 Corinthians 10:11Now, these things happened to those ones as moftim (examples), but it was written for our admonition, to whom the Kitzei HaOlamim has come.

Matthew Henry on 2 Peter 2:2-7

False Prophets and Corrupt Leaders. ( a. d. 67.) 1 But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. 2 And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of. 3 And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you— I. In the end of the former chapter there is… Read the whole commentary →

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