Verse 45

And Abimelech fought against the city all that day; and he took the city, and slew the people that [was] therein, and beat down the city, and sowed it with salt.

Referenced Verses

• 2 Kgs 3:25 : 25 And they beat down the cities, and on every good piece of land cast every man his stone, and filled it; and they stopped all the wells of water, and felled all the good trees: only in Kirharaseth left they the stones thereof; howbeit the slingers went about [it], and smote it.
• Deut 29:23 : 23 [And that] the whole land thereof [is] brimstone, and salt, [and] burning, [that] it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:
• 1 Kgs 12:25 : 25 ¶ Then Jeroboam built Shechem in mount Ephraim, and dwelt therein; and went out from thence, and built Penuel.
• Ps 107:34 : 34 A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
• Ezek 47:11 : 11 But the miry places thereof and the marishes thereof shall not be healed; they shall be given to salt.
• Zeph 2:9 : 9 Therefore [as] I live, saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, [even] the breeding of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall spoil them, and the remnant of my people shall possess them.
• Jas 2:13 : 13 For he shall have judgment without mercy, that hath shewed no mercy; and mercy rejoiceth against judgment.