Genesis 19:25

And He overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and tzemach (what grew) upon haadamah.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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 Hashem rained upon Sodom and upon Amora gofrit and eish from Hashem out of Shomayim;

26But his isha, from behind him, looked back, and she became a netziv melach (pillar of salt).

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Cross References

Genesis 14:3All these were joined together in the Valley of Siddim which is the Yam HaMelach. + 14:3 i.e., Dead Sea

Jeremiah 20:16And let that ish be as the towns 1 which Hashem overthrew, and relented not; 1 and let him hear the wailing in the boker, 1 and the teru'ah (battle cry) at noontide; 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

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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