Deuteronomy 29:23

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

[ and that] the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, [and] a burning, [that] it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which Jehovah overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְאָֽמְרוּ֙ כָּל־הַגּוֹיִ֔ם עַל־מֶ֨ה עָשָׂ֧ה יְהוָ֛ה כָּ֖כָה לָאָ֣רֶץ הַזֹּ֑את מֶ֥ה חֳרִ֛י הָאַ֥ף הַגָּד֖וֹל הַזֶּֽה׃

Transliteration

And-ʾāmᵉrû all-the-gôyim: For-what ʿāśāh YHWH thus to-the-ʾāreṣ the-zōʾt? What ḥŏrî the-ʾap̄ the-gādôl the-zeh?

Grammar Details

*ʾāmᵉrû*: Qal perfect 3rd common plural consecutive - and they will say
*gôyim*: noun masculine plural - nations
*ʿāśāh*: Qal perfect 3rd masculine singular - he did
*YHWH*: proper noun - the divine name
*ʾāreṣ*: noun feminine singular - land
*zōʾt*: demonstrative adjective feminine singular - this
*ḥŏrî*: noun masculine singular construct - burning of
*ʾap̄*: noun masculine singular - nose/anger
*gādôl*: adjective masculine singular - great
*zeh*: demonstrative adjective masculine singular - this

Word Meanings

*gôyim*: nations/peoples/gentiles
*ʿāśāh*: did/made/accomplished
*ḥŏrî*: burning/heat/fierceness
*ʾap̄*: anger/nose/wrath

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Referenced Verses

Jer 17:6 : 6 For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh, but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, a salt land and not inhabited.
Zeph 2:9 : 9 Therefore as I live, saith Jehovah 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 make a prey of them, and the remnant of my nation shall inherit them.
Isa 34:9 : 9 And the streams of [Edom] shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.
Gen 19:24-25 : 24 Then Jehovah rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from Jehovah out of heaven; 25 and he overthrew those cities, and all the Plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.
Judg 9:45 : 45 And Abimelech fought against the city all that day; and he took the city, and slew the people that were therein: and he beat down the city, and sowed it with salt.
Jer 20:16 : 16 And let that man be as the cities which Jehovah overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear a cry in the morning, and shouting at noontime;
Ezek 47:11 : 11 But the miry places thereof, and the marshes thereof, shall not be healed; they shall be given up to salt.
Gen 14:2 : 2 that they made war with Bera king of Sodom, and with Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, and Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (the same is Zoar).
Luke 14:34-35 : 34 Salt therefore is good: but if even the salt have lost its savor, wherewith {G1722} shall it be seasoned? 35 It is fit neither for the land nor for the dunghill: [men] cast it out. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.
Luke 17:29 : 29 but in the day that Lot went out from Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all:
Rev 19:20 : 20 And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought the signs in his sight, {G1722} wherewith he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast and them that worshipped his image: they two were cast alive into the lake of fire that burneth with brimstone:
Hos 11:8-9 : 8 How shall I give thee up, Ephraim? [how] shall I cast thee off, Israel? how shall I make thee as Admah? [how] shall I set thee as Zeboiim? my heart is turned within me, my compassions are kindled together. 9 I will not execute the fierceness of mine anger, I will not return to destroy Ephraim: for I am God, and not man; the Holy One in the midst of thee; and I will not come in wrath.
Amos 4:11 : 11 I have overthrown [cities] among you, as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a brand plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith Jehovah.
Job 18:15 : 15 There shall dwell in his tent that which is none of his: Brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.
Ps 107:34 : 34 A fruitful land into a salt desert, For the wickedness of them that dwell therein.

Similar Verses (AI)

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Deut 29:24
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24even all the nations shall say, Wherefore hath Jehovah done thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger?
Gen 19:24-25
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24Then Jehovah rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from Jehovah out of heaven;
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Jer 49:18
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18As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbor cities thereof, saith Jehovah, no man shall dwell there, neither shall any son of man sojourn therein.
Jer 50:40
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40As when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbor cities thereof, saith Jehovah, so shall no man dwell there, neither shall any son of man sojourn therein.
Isa 34:9-10
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9And the streams of [Edom] shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.
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Luke 17:29
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29but in the day that Lot went out from Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all:
Gen 19:28-29
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28and he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the Plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the land went up as the smoke of a furnace.
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6and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, having made them an example unto those that should live ungodly;
Isa 13:19
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19And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans' pride, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
Amos 4:11
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11I have overthrown [cities] among you, as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a brand plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith Jehovah.
Gen 13:10
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10And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the Plain of the Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before Jehovah destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the garden of Jehovah, like the land of Egypt, as thou goest unto Zoar.
Deut 29:27-28
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27therefore the anger of Jehovah was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curse that is written in this book;
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Joel 2:3
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3A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and none hath escaped them.
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Jer 7:20
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20Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, mine anger and my wrath shall be poured out upon this place, upon man, and upon beast, and upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched.
Jude 1:7
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Zeph 2:9
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9Therefore as I live, saith Jehovah 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 make a prey of them, and the remnant of my nation shall inherit them.
Ps 107:34
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Gen 19:13
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13for we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxed great before Jehovah; and Jehovah hath sent us to destroy it.
Isa 9:18
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18For wickedness burneth as the fire; it devoureth the briers and thorns; yea, it kindleth in the thickets of the forest, and they roll upward in a column of smoke.
Gen 13:13
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13Now the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners against Jehovah exceedingly.
Amos 9:5
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Jer 44:22
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Deut 28:24
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24Jehovah will make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed.
Isa 13:9
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Deut 29:22
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22And the generation to come, your children that shall rise up after you, and the foreigner that shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses wherewith Jehovah hath made it sick;
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Isa 1:7
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Lam 4:6
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Mic 1:4
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Deut 13:16
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Gen 10:19
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Ezek 22:31
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Ezek 22:23
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Ezek 21:31
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