Genesis 19:25
He destroyed those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and the plants that grew on the ground.
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24Then Yahweh rained down upon Sodom and Gomorrah sulfur and fire from Yahweh out of the sky.
26But Lot's wife, who was behind him, looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.
Cross References
Genesis 14:3These latter five kings joined together in the Valley of Siddim (also called the Salt Sea).
Jeremiah 20:16Let that man be like the cities that Yahweh overthrew and he did not have compassion on them. 1 Let him hear a cry for help in the dawn, a battle cry at noontime, 1
Zephaniah 2:9Therefore, as I live—this is the declaration of Yahweh of hosts, God of Israel— 1 Moab will become like Sodom, and the people of Ammon like Gomorrah; 1 a place of nettles and a salt pit, deserted forever. 1 But the remnant of my people will plunder them, and the remainder of my nation will take possession of 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 →