Genesis 19:25
and he overthrew those cities, and all the Plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
In Context
24Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven;
26But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.
Cross References
Genesis 14:3All these joined together in the vale of Siddim (the same is the Salt Sea).
Jeremiah 20:16And let that man be as the cities which the LORD overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear a cry in the morning, and shouting at noontide;
Zephaniah 2:9Therefore as I live, saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, a possession of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall spoil them, and the remnant of my nation shall inherit 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 →