Genesis 19:28
and he looked out over the face of Sodom and Gomorrah, and over all the face of the land of the circuit, and beheld and lo! the smoke of the land went up, like the smoke of a furnace.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
27And Abraham gat up early in the morning, unto the place where he had stood before Yahweh;
Cross References
Psalms 107:34A Land of Fruit, into a waste of salt, For the wickedness of them who dwell therein.
2 Peter 2:7And, righteous Lot, when getting worn out by the behaviour of them who were impious in wantonness, he rescued—
Revelation 9:2And he opened the shaft of the abyss; and there came up a smoke out of the shaft, as the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened, by reason of the smoke of the shaft.
Revelation 18:9And they shall weep and wail over her—shall the kings of the earth who, with her, committed lewdness and waxed wanton,—as soon as they see the smoke of her burning,—
Revelation 19:3And, a second time, have they said—Hallelujah! And, her smoke, ascendeth unto ages of ages.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 19:28-30
27 And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the Lord : 28 And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace. 29 And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in the which Lot dwelt. Our communion with God consists in our gracious regard to him and his… Read the whole commentary →