Genesis 14:10

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Now the Valley of Siddim was full of tar pits. When the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, they fell into them, but some survivors fled to the hills.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 19:17 : 17 When they had brought them outside, they said,“Run for your lives! Don’t look behind you or stop anywhere in the valley! Escape to the mountains or you will be destroyed!”
  • Gen 19:30 : 30 Lot went up from Zoar with his two daughters and settled in the mountains because he was afraid to live in Zoar. So he lived in a cave with his two daughters.
  • Gen 11:3 : 3 Then they said to one another,“Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.”(They had brick instead of stone and tar instead of mortar.)
  • Josh 8:24 : 24 When Israel had finished killing all the men of Ai who had chased them toward the wilderness(they all fell by the sword), all Israel returned to Ai and put the sword to it.
  • Ps 83:10 : 10 They were destroyed at En Dor; their corpses were like manure on the ground.
  • Isa 24:18 : 18 The one who runs away from the sound of the terror will fall into the pit; the one who climbs out of the pit, will be trapped by the snare. For the floodgates of the heavens are opened up and the foundations of the earth shake.
  • Jer 48:44 : 44 Anyone who flees at the sound of terror will fall into a pit. Anyone who climbs out of the pit will be caught in a trap. For the time is coming when I will punish the people of Moab. I, the LORD, affirm it!

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  • Gen 14:8-9
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    8Then the king of Sodom, the king of Gomorrah, the king of Admah, the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela(that is, Zoar) went out and prepared for battle. In the Valley of Siddim they met

    9Kedorlaomer king of Elam, Tidal king of nations, Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar. Four kings fought against five.

  • Gen 14:1-6
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    1The Blessing of Victory for God’s People At that time Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Kedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of nations

    2went 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).

    3These last five kings joined forces in the Valley of Siddim(that is, the Salt Sea).

    4For twelve years they had served Kedorlaomer, but in the thirteenth year they rebelled.

    5In the fourteenth year, Kedorlaomer and the kings who were his allies came and defeated the Rephaites in Ashteroth Karnaim, the Zuzites in Ham, the Emites in Shaveh Kiriathaim,

    6and the Horites in their hill country of Seir, as far as El Paran, which is near the desert.

  • Gen 14:11-12
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    11The four victorious kings took all the possessions and food of Sodom and Gomorrah and left.

    12They also took Abram’s nephew Lot and his possessions when they left, for Lot was living in Sodom.

  • Gen 14:17
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    17After Abram returned from defeating Kedorlaomer and the kings who were with him, the king of Sodom went out to meet Abram in the Valley of Shaveh(known as the King’s Valley).

  • Luke 17:29
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    29but on the day Lot went out from Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all.

  • Gen 13:10-13
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    10Lot looked up and saw the whole region of the Jordan. He noticed that all of it was well-watered(before the LORD obliterated Sodom and Gomorrah) like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, all the way to Zoar.

    11Lot chose for himself the whole region of the Jordan and traveled toward the east. So the relatives separated from each other.

    12Abram settled in the land of Canaan, but Lot settled among the cities of the Jordan plain and pitched his tents next to Sodom.

    13(Now the people of Sodom were extremely wicked rebels against the LORD.)

  • Gen 19:24-25
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    24Then the LORD rained down sulfur and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah. It was sent down from the sky by the LORD.

    25So he overthrew those cities and all that region, including all the inhabitants of the cities and the vegetation that grew from the ground.

  • Deut 29:23
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    23The whole land will be covered with brimstone, salt, and burning debris; it will not be planted nor will it sprout or produce grass. It will resemble the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD destroyed in his intense anger.

  • Gen 19:17
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    17When they had brought them outside, they said,“Run for your lives! Don’t look behind you or stop anywhere in the valley! Escape to the mountains or you will be destroyed!”

  • Gen 10:19
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    19and the borders of Canaan extended from Sidon all the way to Gerar as far as Gaza, and all the way to Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha.

  • Gen 19:28-29
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    28He looked out toward Sodom and Gomorrah and all the land of that region. As he did so, he saw the smoke rising up from the land like smoke from a furnace.

    29So when God destroyed the cities of the region, God honored Abraham’s request. He removed Lot from the midst of the destruction when he destroyed the cities Lot had lived in.

  • Gen 14:21
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    21Then the king of Sodom said to Abram,“Give me the people and take the possessions for yourself.”

  • 2 Pet 2:6
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    6and if he turned to ashes the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah when he condemned them to destruction, having appointed them to serve as an example to future generations of the ungodly,

  • Gen 18:20
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    20So the LORD said,“The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great and their sin so blatant

  • Jer 50:40
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    40I will destroy Babylonia just like I did Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighboring towns. No one will live there. No human being will settle in it,” says the LORD.

  • Gen 19:1-2
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    1The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah The two angels came to Sodom in the evening while Lot was sitting in the city’s gateway. When Lot saw them, he got up to meet them and bowed down with his face toward the ground.

    2He said,“Here, my lords, please turn aside to your servant’s house. Stay the night and wash your feet. Then you can be on your way early in the morning.”“No,” they replied,“we’ll spend the night in the town square.”

  • 1 Kgs 14:24
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    24There were also male cultic prostitutes in the land. They committed the same horrible sins as the nations that the LORD had driven out from before the Israelites.

  • Isa 1:10
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    10Listen to the LORD’s message, you leaders of Sodom! Pay attention to our God’s rebuke, people of Gomorrah!

  • Jude 1:7
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    7So also Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighboring towns, since they indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire in a way similar to these angels, are now displayed as an example by suffering the punishment of eternal fire.

  • Gen 19:15
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    15At dawn the angels hurried Lot along, saying,“Get going! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or else you will be destroyed when the city is judged!”

  • Isa 34:9
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    9Edom’s streams will be turned into pitch and her soil into brimstone; her land will become burning pitch.

  • Jer 49:18
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    18Edom will be destroyed like Sodom and Gomorrah and the towns that were around them. No one will live there. No human being will settle in it,” says the LORD.

  • Gen 19:4
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    4Before they could lie down to sleep, all the men– both young and old, from every part of the city of Sodom– surrounded the house.