Genesis 19:28

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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  • Rev 18:9 : 9 And the kings of the earth, who made themselves unclean with her, and in her company gave themselves up to evil, will be weeping and crying over her, when they see the smoke of her burning,
  • Rev 18:18 : 18 And crying out when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, What town is like the great town?
  • Rev 19:3 : 3 And again they said, Praise to the Lord. And her smoke went up for ever and ever.
  • Rev 21:8 : 8 But those who are full of fear and without faith, the unclean and takers of life, those who do the sins of the flesh, and those who make use of evil powers or who give worship to images, and all those who are false, will have their part in the sea of ever-burning fire which is the second death.
  • Ps 107:34 : 34 He makes a fertile country into a salt waste, because of the sins of those who are living there.
  • 2 Pet 2:7 : 7 And kept safe Lot, the upright man, who was deeply troubled by the unclean life of the evil-doers
  • Jude 1:7 : 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.
  • Rev 9:2 : 2 And he made the great deep open and a smoke went up from it, like the smoke of a great oven; and the sun and the air were made dark because of the smoke.
  • Rev 14:10-11 : 10 To him will be given of the wine of God's wrath which is ready unmixed in the cup of his wrath and he will have cruel pain, burning with fire before the holy angels and before the Lamb: 11 And the smoke of their pain goes up for ever and ever; and they have no rest day and night, who give worship to the beast and his image, and have on them the mark of his name.

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  • 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.

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

    22 Go there quickly, for I am not able to do anything till you have come there. For this reason, the town was named Zoar.

    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.

    25 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.

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

    27 And Abraham got up early in the morning and went to the place where he had been talking with the Lord:

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    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.

    11 So Lot took for himself all the valley of Jordan, and went to the east, and they were parted from one another.

    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.

    14 And the Lord had said to Abram, after Lot was parted from him, From this place where you are take a look to the north and to the south, to the east and to the west:

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

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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.

    18 And Lot said to them, Not so, O my Lord;

    19 See now, your servant has had grace in your eyes and great is your mercy in keeping my life from destruction, but I am not able to get as far as the mountain before evil overtakes me and death;

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

    21 I will go down now, and see if their acts are as bad as they seem from the outcry which has come to me; and if they are not, I will see.

    22 And the men, turning from that place, went on to Sodom: but Abraham was still waiting before the Lord.

    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?

  • 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:

  • 16 And the men went on from there in the direction of Sodom; and Abraham went with them on their way.

  • 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 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;

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

    27 And Abraham answering said, Truly, I who am only dust, have undertaken to put my thoughts before the Lord:

    28 If by chance there are five less than fifty upright men, will you give up all the town to destruction because of these five? And he said, I will not give it to destruction if there are forty-five.

  • 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.

  • 4 And on the third day, Abraham, lifting up his eyes, saw the place a long way off.

  • 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;

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 18 And all the mountain of Sinai was smoking, for the Lord had come down on it in fire: and the smoke of it went up like the smoke of a great burning; and all the mountain was shaking.

  • 12 And in addition they took Lot, Abram's brother's son, who was living in Sodom, and all his goods.

  • 2 And lifting up his eyes, he saw three men before him; and seeing them, he went quickly to them from the door of the tent, and went down on his face to the earth;