Genesis 19:28

World English Bible (2000)

He looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and looked, and saw that the smoke of the land went up as the smoke of a furnace.

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  • Rev 18:9 : 9 The kings of the earth, who committed sexual immorality and lived wantonly with her, will weep and wail over her, when they look at the smoke of her burning,
  • Rev 18:18 : 18 and cried out as they looked at the smoke of her burning, saying, 'What is like the great city?'
  • Rev 19:3 : 3 A second said, "Hallelujah! Her smoke goes up forever and ever."
  • Rev 21:8 : 8 But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death."
  • Ps 107:34 : 34 and a fruitful land into a salt waste, for the wickedness of those who dwell in it.
  • 2 Pet 2:7 : 7 and delivered righteous Lot, who was very distressed by the lustful life of the wicked
  • Jude 1:7 : 7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them, having, in the same way as these, given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.
  • Rev 9:2 : 2 He opened the pit of the abyss, and smoke went up out of the pit, like the smoke from a burning furnace. The sun and the air were darkened because of the smoke from the pit.
  • Rev 14:10-11 : 10 he also will drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is prepared unmixed in the cup of his anger. He will be tormented with fire and sulfur in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb. 11 The smoke of their torment goes up forever and ever. They have no rest day and night, those who worship the beast and his image, and whoever receives the mark of his name.

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  • 29 It happened, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the middle of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.

  • Gen 19:21-27
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    21 He said to him, "Behold, I have granted your request concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow the city of which you have spoken.

    22 Hurry, escape there, for I can't do anything until you get there." Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.

    23 The sun had risen on the earth when Lot came to Zoar.

    24 Then Yahweh rained on Sodom and on Gomorrah sulfur and fire from Yahweh out of the sky.

    25 He overthrew those cities, all the plain, all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew on the ground.

    26 But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.

    27 Abraham got up early in the morning to the place where he had stood before Yahweh.

  • Gen 13:10-14
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    10 Lot lifted up his eyes, and saw all the plain of the Jordan, that it was well-watered everywhere, before Yahweh destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the garden of Yahweh, like the land of Egypt, as you go to Zoar.

    11 So Lot chose the Plain of the Jordan for himself. Lot traveled east, and they separated themselves the one from the other.

    12 Abram lived in the land of Canaan, and Lot lived in the cities of the plain, and moved his tent as far as Sodom.

    13 Now the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and sinners against Yahweh.

    14 Yahweh said to Abram, after Lot was separated from him, "Now, lift up your eyes, and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward,

  • 29 but in the day that Lot went out from Sodom, it rained fire and sulfur from the sky, and destroyed them all.

  • Gen 19:12-19
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    12 The men said to Lot, "Do you have anybody else here? Sons-in-law, your sons, your daughters, and whoever you have in the city, bring them out of the place:

    13 for we will destroy this place, because the outcry against them has grown great before Yahweh that Yahweh has sent us to destroy it."

    14 Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry his daughters, and said, "Get up! Get out of this place, for Yahweh will destroy the city." But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be joking.

    15 When the morning came, then the angels hurried Lot, saying, "Get up! Take your wife, and your two daughters who are here, lest you be consumed in the iniquity of the city."

    16 But he lingered; and the men grabbed his hand, his wife's hand, and his two daughters' hands, Yahweh being merciful to him; and they took him out, and set him outside of the city.

    17 It came to pass, when they had taken them out, that he said, "Escape for your life! Don't look behind you, and don't stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountains, lest you be consumed!"

    18 Lot said to them, "Oh, not so, my lord.

    19 See now, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have magnified your loving kindness, which you have shown to me in saving my life. I can't escape to the mountain, lest evil overtake me, and I die.

  • Gen 18:20-24
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    20 Yahweh said, "Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous,

    21 I will go down now, and see whether their deeds are as bad as the reports which have come to me. If not, I will know."

    22 The men turned from there, and went toward Sodom, but Abraham stood yet before Yahweh.

    23 Abraham drew near, and said, "Will you consume the righteous with the wicked?

    24 What if there are fifty righteous within the city? Will you consume and not spare the place for the fifty righteous who are in it?

  • 23 [and that] the whole land of it is sulfur, and salt, [and] a burning, [that] it is not sown, nor bears, nor any grass grows therein, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which Yahweh overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:

  • 16 The men rose up from there, and looked toward Sodom. Abraham went with them to see them on their way.

  • 1 The two angels came to Sodom at evening. Lot sat in the gate of Sodom. Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them. He bowed himself with his face to the earth,

  • 6 and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, having made them an example to those who would live ungodly;

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    26 Yahweh said, "If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sake."

    27 Abraham answered, "See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord, who am but dust and ashes.

    28 What if there will lack five of the fifty righteous? Will you destroy all the city for lack of five?" He said, "I will not destroy it, if I find forty-five there."

  • 10 Now the valley of Siddim was full of tar pits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and they fell there, and those who remained fled to the hills.

  • 4 On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place far off.

  • 4 But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, both young and old, all the people from every quarter.

  • 40 As when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbor cities of it, says Yahweh, so shall no man dwell there, neither shall any son of man live therein.

  • 18 As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbor cities of it, says Yahweh, no man shall dwell there, neither shall any son of man live therein.

  • 18 Mount Sinai, all it, smoked, because Yahweh descended on it in fire; and its smoke ascended like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked greatly.

  • 12 They took Lot, Abram's brother's son, who lived in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.

  • 2 He lifted up his eyes and looked, and saw that three men stood opposite him. When he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself to the earth,