24 Then the Lord (A)rained brimstone and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah from the Lord out of heaven, 25 and (B)He overthrew those cities, and all the surrounding area, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground.

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23 ‘All its land is (A)brimstone and salt, (B)burned debris, [a]unsown and unproductive, and no grass grows on it, like the overthrow of (C)Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord overthrew in His anger and in His wrath.’

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 29:23 Lit it is not sown and does not make plants sprout

40 As when God overthrew (A)Sodom
And Gomorrah with its neighbors,” declares the Lord,
“No one will live there,
Nor will [a]anyone of mankind reside in it.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 50:40 Lit a son of man

11 “I overthrew you, as (A)God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah,
And you were like a (B)log snatched from a fire;
Yet you have (C)not returned to Me,” declares the Lord.

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Therefore, as I live,” declares the Lord of armies,
The God of Israel,
(A)Moab will assuredly be like (B)Sodom,
And the sons of (C)Ammon like (D)Gomorrah—
Ground overgrown with weeds and full of salt mines,
And a permanent desolation.
The remnant of My people will (E)plunder them,
And the remainder of My nation will inherit them.”

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