Genesis 19:25

and destroyed those cities and all the plain, and all the dwellers in the cities and the herbage of the earth.

Targum Onkelos

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

24And the Lord rained upon Sedom and upon Amorah sulphur and fire from before the Lord from the heavens,

26And his wife looked behind her, and she became a statue of salt.

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Cross References

Genesis 14:3All these were assembled at the plain of the field, which is (now) the place of the sea of salt.

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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