Genesis 19:28

(and) beheld Sodom and Gomorrah, and all the land of that country (side) (about); and he saw a dead spark going up from the earth, as the smoke of a furnace.

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In The King James Version

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.

In Context

27Forsooth Abraham rising (up) early, (went to) where he (had) stood before with the Lord,

29For when God destroyed the cities of that country (side), he had mind of Abraham, and delivered Lot from [the] destroying of the cities in which he dwelled.

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Cross References

Psalms 107:34He hath set fruitful land into saltiness; for the malice of men dwelling therein. ( He hath set fruitful land into a salty wasteland; because of the evil, or the wickedness, of the people who live there.)

2 Peter 2:7and delivered the just Lot, oppressed of the wrong, and of the lecherous conversation of cursed men; (and saved Lot, a good man, who was oppressed by all the wrong-doing, and by the lecherous living of cursed men;)

Revelation 9:2And it opened the pit of deepness [or And he opened the pit of deepness], and a smoke of the pit ascended up, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun was darked, and the air, of the smoke of the pit, (or and the sun, and the air, were darkened by the smoke from the pit).

Revelation 18:9And the kings of the earth shall beweep, and bewail themselves on her (or and bewail themselves over her), which did fornication with her, and lived in delights, when they shall see the smoke of the burning of it;

Revelation 19:3And again they said, Alleluia. And the smoke of it ascendeth up, into the worlds of worlds, (or And its smoke goeth up forever).

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 →

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