Genesis 19:25

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 107:34 : 34 and a fruitful land into a barren place, because of the sin of its inhabitants.
  • Gen 14:3 : 3 These last five kings joined forces in the Valley of Siddim(that is, the Salt Sea).
  • Gen 13:10 : 10 Lot 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.

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  • Gen 19:23-24
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    23The sun had just risen over the land as Lot reached Zoar.

    24Then the LORD rained down sulfur and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah. It was sent down from the sky by the LORD.

  • Deut 29:23-24
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    83%

    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.

    24Then all the nations will ask,“Why has the LORD done all this to this land? What is this fierce, heated display of anger all about?”

  • Luke 17:28-29
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    81%

    28Likewise, just as it was in the days of Lot, people were eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting, building;

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

  • 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.

  • 2 Pet 2:6
    79%

    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,

  • Jer 50:40
    77%

    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 19:26
    76%

    26But Lot’s wife looked back longingly and was turned into a pillar of salt.

  • Gen 13:10
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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.

  • Jer 49:18
    75%

    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 19:12-17
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    12Then the two visitors said to Lot,“Who else do you have here? Do you have any sons-in-law, sons, daughters, or other relatives in the city? Get them out of this place

    13because we are about to destroy it. The outcry against this place is so great before the LORD that he has sent us to destroy it.”

    14Then Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law who were going to marry his daughters. He said,“Quick, get out of this place because the LORD is about to destroy the city!” But his sons-in-law thought he was ridiculing them.

    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!”

    16When Lot hesitated, the men grabbed his hand and the hands of his wife and two daughters because the LORD had compassion on them. They led them away and placed them outside the city.

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

  • Isa 13:19
    74%

    19Babylon, the most admired of kingdoms, the Chaldeans’ source of honor and pride, will be destroyed by God just as Sodom and Gomorrah were.

  • Amos 4:11
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    11“I overthrew some of you the way God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. You were like a burning stick snatched from the flames. Still you did not come back to me.” The LORD is speaking!

  • Gen 14:10-11
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    10Now 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.

    11The four victorious kings took all the possessions and food of Sodom and Gomorrah and left.

  • Gen 13:12-13
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    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.)

  • 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 18:23-26
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    71%

    23Abraham approached and said,“Will you really sweep away the godly along with the wicked?

    24What if there are fifty godly people in the city? Will you really wipe it out and not spare the place for the sake of the fifty godly people who are in it?

    25Far be it from you to do such a thing– to kill the godly with the wicked, treating the godly and the wicked alike! Far be it from you! Will not the judge of the whole earth do what is right?”

    26So the LORD replied,“If I find in the city of Sodom fifty godly people, I will spare the whole place for their sake.”

  • 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.

  • Gen 19:21
    70%

    21“Very well,” he replied,“I will grant this request too and will not overthrow the town you mentioned.

  • 2 Kgs 23:7
    69%

    7He tore down the quarters of the male cultic prostitutes in the LORD’s temple, where women were weaving shrines for Asherah.

  • 2 Kgs 3:19
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    19You will defeat every fortified city and every important city. You must chop down every productive tree, stop up all the springs, and cover all the cultivated land with stones.”

  • Deut 13:15
    69%

    15you must by all means slaughter the inhabitants of that city with the sword; annihilate with the sword everyone in it, as well as the livestock.

  • Num 31:10
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    10They burned all their towns where they lived and all their encampments.

  • Gen 19:1
    69%

    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.

  • Deut 3:6
    69%

    6We put all of these under divine judgment just as we had done to King Sihon of Heshbon– every occupied city, including women and children.

  • Jer 4:26
    69%

    26I looked and saw that the fruitful land had become a desert and that all of the cities had been laid in ruins. The LORD had brought this all about because of his blazing anger.

  • Judg 9:45
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    45Abimelech fought against the city all that day. He captured the city and killed all the people in it. Then he leveled the city and spread salt over it.