Genesis 19:24
And, Yahweh, rained, upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah, brimstone and fire,—from Yahweh, out of the heavens:
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven;
In Context
23When, the sun, had come forth on the earth, Lot had entered into Zoar.
Cross References
Genesis 13:10So Lot lifted up his eyes and beheld all the circuit of the Jordan, that the whole of it, was well-watered,—before Yahweh destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the Garden of Yahweh, like the land of Egypt, as thou enterest into Zoar.
Deuteronomy 29:22So that the generation coming after—your sons who shall rise up after you, and the foreigner who shall come in from a far-off land, will say—when they see the plagues of that land and the sicknesses thereof wherewith Yahweh hath made it sick:
Job 18:15There shall dwell in his tent, what is naught-of-his, Let brimstone be strewed over his dwelling;
Isaiah 1:9If, Yahweh of hosts, had not left us a very small remnant, Like Sodom, had we become, Gomorrah, had we resembled.
Jeremiah 20:16Making him very glad: Yea let that man be—as the cities which Yahweh overthrew and repented not,—And let him hear An outcry in the morning, and A war-shout at broad noon!
Jeremiah 49:18Like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and her neighbours, Saith Yahweh,—There shall not dwell there—a man, Nor sojourn therein—any son of the earth-born.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 19:16-24
15 And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters, which are here; lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city. 16 And while he lingered, the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters; the Lord being merciful unto him: and they brought him forth, and set him without the city. 17 And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; look not behind… Read the whole commentary →