All its soil will be a burning waste of sulfur and salt, unsown and unproductive, with no plant growing on it, just like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in His fierce anger. Cross References Romans 9:29 It is just as Isaiah foretold: "Unless the Lord of Hosts had left us descendants, we would have become like Sodom, we would have resembled Gomorrah." Jude 1:7 In like manner, Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, who indulged in sexual immorality and pursued strange flesh, are on display as an example of those who sustain the punishment of eternal fire. Genesis 14:2 went to war against Bera king of Sodom, Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar). Genesis 19:24 Then the LORD rained down sulfur and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah--from the LORD out of the heavens. Genesis 19:25 Thus He destroyed these cities and the entire plain, including all the inhabitants of the cities and everything that grew on the ground. 2 Kings 22:13 "Go and inquire of the LORD for me, for the people, and for all Judah concerning the words in this book that has been found. For great is the wrath of the LORD that burns against us because our fathers have not obeyed the words of this book by doing all that is written about us." Psalm 107:34 and fruitful land into fields of salt, because of the wickedness of its dwellers. Isaiah 1:7 Your land is desolate; your cities are burned with fire. Foreigners devour your fields before you--a desolation demolished by strangers. Isaiah 13:19 And Babylon, the jewel of the kingdoms, the glory of the pride of the Chaldeans, will be overthrown by God like Sodom and Gomorrah. Isaiah 34:9 Edom's streams will be turned to tar, and her soil to sulfur; her land will become a blazing pitch. Isaiah 64:11 Our holy and beautiful temple, where our fathers praised You, has been burned with fire, and all that was dear to us lies in ruins. Jeremiah 17:6 He will be like a shrub in the desert; he will not see when prosperity comes. He will dwell in the parched places of the desert, in a salt land where no one lives. Jeremiah 49:18 As Sodom and Gomorrah were overthrown along with their neighbors," says the LORD, "no one will dwell there; no man will abide there. Ezekiel 47:11 But the swamps and marshes will not become fresh; they will be left for salt. Hosea 11:8 How could I give you up, O Ephraim? How could I surrender you, O Israel? How could I make you like Admah? How could I treat you like Zeboiim? My heart is turned within Me; My compassion is stirred! Amos 4:11 "Some of you I overthrew as I overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a firebrand snatched from a blaze, yet you did not return to Me," declares the LORD. Zephaniah 2:9 Therefore, as surely as I live," declares the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, "surely Moab will be like Sodom and the Ammonites like Gomorrah--a place of weeds and salt pits, a perpetual wasteland. The remnant of My people will plunder them; the remainder of My nation will dispossess them." Treasury of Scripture And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor bears, nor any grass grows therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath: brimstone Job 18:15 Isaiah 34:9 Luke 17:29 salt Judges 9:45 Psalm 107:34 Jeremiah 17:6 like the Genesis 14:2 Genesis 19:24,25 Jeremiah 20:16 |