Genesis 19:25

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And he sent destruction on those towns, with all the lowland and all the people of those towns and every green thing in the land.

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  • Ps 107:34 : 34 He makes a fertile country into a salt waste, because of the sins of those who are living there.
  • Gen 14:3 : 3 All these came together in the valley of Siddim (which is the Salt Sea).
  • Gen 13:10 : 10 And Lot, lifting up his eyes and looking an the valley of Jordan, saw that it was well watered everywhere, before the Lord had sent destruction on Sodom and Gomorrah; it was like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, on the way to Zoar.

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  • Gen 19:23-24
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    23 The sun was up when Lot came to Zoar.

    24 Then the Lord sent fire and flaming smoke raining down from heaven on Sodom and Gomorrah.

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    23 And that all the land is a salt and smoking waste, not planted or giving fruit or clothed with grass, but wasted like Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, on which the Lord sent destruction in the heat of his wrath:

    24 Truly all the nations will say, Why has the Lord done so to this land? what is the reason for this great and burning wrath?

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    28 In the same way, in the days of Lot; they were feasting and trading, they were planting and building;

    29 But on the day when Lot went out of Sodom, fire came down from heaven and destruction came on them all.

  • Gen 19:28-29
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    28 And looking in the direction of Sodom and Gomorrah and the lowland, he saw the smoke of the land going up like the smoke of an oven.

    29 So it came about that when God sent destruction on the towns of the lowland, he kept his word to Abraham, and sent Lot safely away when he put an end to the towns where he was living.

  • 6 And sent destruction on Sodom and Gomorrah, burning them up with fire as an example to those whose way of life might in the future be unpleasing to him;

  • 40 As when Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighbouring towns were overturned by God, says the Lord, so no man will be living in it, and no son of man will have a resting-place there.

  • 26 But Lot's wife, looking back, became a pillar of salt.

  • 10 And Lot, lifting up his eyes and looking an the valley of Jordan, saw that it was well watered everywhere, before the Lord had sent destruction on Sodom and Gomorrah; it was like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, on the way to Zoar.

  • 18 As at the downfall of Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighbouring towns, says the Lord, no man will be living in it, no son of man will have a resting-place there.

  • Gen 19:12-17
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    12 Then the men said to Lot, Are there any others of your family here? sons-in-law or sons or daughters, take them all out of this place;

    13 For we are about to send destruction on this place, because a great outcry against them has come to the ears of the Lord; and the Lord has sent us to put an end to the town.

    14 And Lot went out and said to his sons-in-law, who were married to his daughters, Come, let us go out of this place, for the Lord is about to send destruction on the town. But his sons-in-law did not take him seriously.

    15 And when morning came, the angels did all in their power to make Lot go, saying, Get up quickly and take your wife and your two daughters who are here, and go, for fear that you come to destruction in the punishment of the town.

    16 But while he was waiting, the men took him and his wife and his daughters by the hand, for the Lord had mercy on them, and put them outside the town.

    17 And when they had put them out, he said, Go for your life, without looking back or waiting in the lowland; go quickly to the mountain or you will come to destruction.

  • 20 And the Lord said, Because the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is very great, and their sin is very evil,

  • 19 And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beautiful town which is the pride of the Chaldaeans, will be like God's destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.

  • 11 And I have sent destruction among you, as when God sent destruction on Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a burning stick pulled out of the fire: and still you have not come back to me, says the Lord.

  • Gen 14:10-11
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    10 Now the valley of Siddim was full of holes of sticky earth; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah were put to flight and came to their end there, but the rest got away to the mountain.

    11 And the four kings took all the goods and food from Sodom and Gomorrah and went on their way.

  • Gen 13:12-13
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    12 Abram went on living in the land of Canaan, and Lot went to the lowland towns, moving his tent as far as Sodom.

    13 Now the men of Sodom were evil, and great sinners before the Lord.

  • 7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the towns near them, having like these, given themselves up to unclean desires and gone after strange flesh, have been made an example, undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.

  • Gen 18:23-26
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    23 And Abraham came near, and said, Will you let destruction come on the upright with the sinners?

    24 If by chance there are fifty upright men in the town, will you give the place to destruction and not have mercy on it because of the fifty upright men?

    25 Let such a thing be far from you, to put the upright to death with the sinner: will not the judge of all the earth do right?

    26 And the Lord said, If there are fifty upright men in the town, I will have mercy on it because of them.

  • 4 But before they had gone to bed, the men of the town, all the men of Sodom, came round the house, young and old, from every part of the town;

  • 21 And he said, See, I have given you your request in this one thing more: I will not send destruction on this town.

  • 7 And he had the houses pulled down of those who were used for sex purposes in the house of the Lord, where women were making robes for the Asherah.

  • 19 And you are to put every walled town to destruction, cutting down every good tree, and stopping up every water-spring, and making all the good land rough with stones.

  • 15 Then take up arms against the people of that town and give it up to the curse, with all its cattle and everything in it.

  • 10 And after burning all their towns and all their tent-circles,

  • 1 And at nightfall the two angels came to Sodom; and Lot was seated at the way into the town: and when he saw them he got up and came before them, falling down on his face to the earth.

  • 6 And we put them to the curse, every town together with men, women, and children.

  • 26 Looking, I saw that the fertile field was a waste, and all its towns were broken down before the Lord and before his burning wrath.

  • 45 And all that day Abimelech was fighting against the town; and he took it, and put to death the people who were in it, and had the town pulled down and covered with salt.