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Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Sodom

their secret; their cement

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Sodom

(burning), one of the most ancient cities of Syria. It is commonly mentioned in connection with Gomorrah, but also with Admah and Zeboim, and on one occasion -- (Genesis 14:1) ... --with Bela or Zoar. Sodom was evidently the chief town in the settlement. The four are first named in the ethnological records of (Genesis 10:19) as belonging to the Canaanites. The next mention of the name of Sodom, (Genesis 13:10-13) gives more certain indication of the position of the city. Abram and Lot are standing together between Bethel and Ai, ver. 3, taking a survey of the land around and below them. Eastward of them, and absolutely at their feet, lay the "circle of Jordan." The whole circle was one great oasis --"a garden of Jehovah." ver. 10. In the midst of the garden the four cities of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboim appear to have been situated. It is necessary to notice how absolutely the cities are identified with the district. In the subsequent account of their destruction, (Genesis 19:1) ... the topographical terms are employed with all the precision which is characteristic of such early times. The mention of the Jordan is conclusive as to the situation of the district, for the Jordan ceases where it enters the Dead Sea, and can have no existence south of that point. The catastrophe by which they were destroyed is described in (Genesis 19:1) ... as a shower of brimstone and fire from Jehovah. However we may interpret the words of the earliest narrative, one thing is certain --that the lake was not one of the agents in the catastrophe. From all these passages, though much is obscure, two things seem clear:

That Sodom and the rest of the cities of the plain of Jordan stood on the north of the Dead Sea;
That neither the cities nor the district were submerged by the lake, but that the cities were overthrown and the land spoiled, and that it may still be seen in its desolate condition. When, however, we turn to more modern views, we discover a remarkable variance from these conclusions.
The opinion long current that the five cities were submerged in the lake, and that their remains--walls, columns and capitals--might he still discerned below the water, hardly needs refutation after the distinct statement and the constant implication of Scripture. But,
A more serious departure from the terms of the ancient history is exhibited in the prevalent opinion that the cities stood at the south end of the lake. This appears to, have been the belief of Josephus and Jerome. It seems to have been universally held by the medieval historians and pilgrims, and it is adopted by modern topographers probably without exception. There are several grounds for this belief; but the main point on which Dr. Robinson rests his argument is the situation of Zoar. (a) "Lot," says he, "fled to Zoar, which was near to Sodom; and Zoar lay almost at the southern end of the present sea, probably in the month of Wady Kerak ." (b) Another consideration in favor of placing the cities at the southern end of the lake is the existence of similar names in that direction. (c) A third argument, and perhaps the weightiest of the three, is the existence of the salt mountain at the south of the lake, and its tendency to split off in columnar masses presenting a rude resemblance to the human form. But it is by no means certain that salt does not exist at other spots round the lake. (d) (A fourth and yet stronger argument is drawn from the fact that Abraham saw the smoke of the burning cities from Hebron. (e) A fifth argument is found in the numerous lime-pits found at that southern end of the Dead Sea. Robinson, Schaff, Baedeker, Lieutenant Lynch and others favor this view. --ED.) It thus appears that on the situation of Sodom no satisfactory conclusion can at present be readied: On the one hand, the narrative of Genesis seems to state positively that it lay at the northern end of the Dead Sea. On the other hand, long-continued tradition and the names of the existing spots seem to pronounce with almost equal positiveness that it was at its southern end. Of the catastrophe which destroyed the city and the district of Sodom we can hardly hope ever to form a satisfactory conception. Some catastrophe there undoubtedly was but what secondary agencies, besides fire, were employed in the accomplishment of the punishment cannot be safely determined in the almost total absence of exact scientific description of the natural features of the ground round the lake. We may suppose, however, that the actual agent in the ignition and destruction of the cities had been of the nature of a tremendous thunder-storm accompanied by a discharge of meteoric stones, (and that these set on fire the bitumen with which the soil was saturated, and which was used in building the city. And it may be that this burning out of the soil caused the plain to sink below the level of the Dead Sea, and the waters to flow over it--if indeed Sodom and its sister cities are really under the water.--ED.) The miserable fate of Sodom and Gomorrah is held up as a warning in numerous passages of the Old and New Testaments. (Mark 8:11; 2 Peter 2:6; Jude 1:4-7)

ATS Bible Dictionary

Sodom

One of the cities of the plain, and for some time the dwellingplace of Lot, Genesis 13:10-13 14:12. Its crimes and vices were so enormous, that God destroyed it by fire from heaven, with three neighboring cities, Gomorrah, Zeboim, and Admah, which were as wicked as itself, Genesis 19:1-20. The plain of Siddim in which they stood was pleasant and fruitful, like an earthy paradise; but it was first burned, and afterwards mostly overflowed by the waters of the Dead Sea or Lake of Sodom. See JORDAN, and SEA3

The prophets, in denouncing woes upon other countries, mention the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, and intimate that these places shall be desert and dried up and uninhabited, Jeremiah 49:18 50:40; that they shall be covered with briers and brambles, a land of salt and sulphur, where can be neither planting nor sowing, De 29:23 Am 4:11. Throughout Scripture the ruin of Sodom and Gomorrah is represented as a most signal effect of God's anger, and as a mirror in which those living at ease in sin and lust may see their own doom. The name is given in Revelation 11:8, to the great and corrupt city of antichrist. "Sodomites" were men addicted to the beastly lusts alluded in Genesis 19:1-38 1 Kings 14:24 Romans 1:26,27.

Easton's Bible Dictionary

Burning; the walled, a city in the vale of Siddim (Genesis 13:10; 14:1-16). The wickedness of its inhabitants brought down upon it fire from heaven, by which it was destroyed (18:16-33; 19:1-29; Deuteronomy 23:17). This city and its awful destruction are frequently alluded to in Scripture (Deuteronomy 29:23; 32:32; Isaiah 1:9, 10; 3:9; 13:19; Jeremiah 23:14; Ezek. 16:46-56; Zephaniah 2:9; Matthew 10:15; Romans 9:29; 2 Peter 2:6, etc.). No trace of it or of the other cities of the plain has been discovered, so complete was their destruction. Just opposite the site of Zoar, on the south-west coast of the Dead Sea, is a range of low hills, forming a mass of mineral salt called Jebel Usdum, "the hill of Sodom." It has been concluded, from this and from other considerations, that the cities of the plain stood at the southern end of the Dead Sea. Others, however, with much greater probability, contend that they stood at the northern end of the sea. [in 1897].

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

APPLES OF SODOM

sod'-um: Josephus (BJ, IV, viii, 4) says that "the traces (or shadows) of the five cities (of the plain) are still to be seen, as well as the ashes growing in their fruits, which fruits have a color as if they were fit to be eaten; but if you pluck them with your hands they dissolve into smoke and ashes." What this "Dead Sea fruit" is, is uncertain. The name "Dead Sea apples" is often given to the fruit of the Solanum Sodomaean "a prickly shrub with fruit not unlike a small yellow tomato." Cheyne thinks that the fruits referred to by Josephus (compare Tacitus Hist. v.37) may be either

(1) those of the `osher tree (`usar, Calotropis procera, described by Hasselquist (Travels, 1766)), found in abundance about Jericho and near the Dead Sea, which are filled with dust when they have been attacked by an insect, leaving the skin only entire, and of a beautiful color. Tristram describes the fruit as being "as large as an apple of average size, of a bright yellow color, hanging three or four together close to the stem"; or as suggested by Tristram

(2) those of the wild colocynth; the fruit is fair of aspect with a pulp which dries up into a bitter powder (EB, article "Sodom," col. 4669, note 2). This colocynth is supposed to be the "wild vine" mentioned 2 Kings 4:39. The "vine of Sodom" of Deuteronomy 32:32 has been supposed to bear the "Dead Sea fruit"; but most modern writers regard the passage as figurative.

W. L. Walker

SODOM

sod'-um (cedhom; Sodoma) One of the 5 CITIES OF THE PLAIN (which see), destroyed by fire from heaven in the time of Abraham and Lot (Genesis 19:24). The wickedness of the city became proverbial. The sin of sodomy was an offense against nature frequently connected with idolatrous practices (see Rawlinson, History of Phoenicia). See SODOMITE. The fate of Sodom and Gomorrah is used as a warning to those who reject the gospel (Matthew 10:15; Matthew 11:24 2 Peter 2:6 Jude 1:7). The word is used in a typical sense in Revelation 11:8. Sodom was probably located in plain South of the Dead Sea, now covered with water. The name is still preserved in Jebel Usdum (Mt. Sodom).

See ARABAH; CITIES OF THE PLAIN; DEAD SEA.

LITERATURE.

Dillmann. Genesis, 111 f; Robinson, BR, II, 187;; G. A. Smith, HGHL, 505;; Blanckenhorn, ZDPV, XIX, 1896, 53;; Baedeker-Socin, Palestine, 143; Buhl, GAP, 117, 271, 274.

George Frederick Wright

SODOM, VINE OF

(gephen cedhom):

"For their vine is of the vine of Sodom,

And of the fields of Gomorrah:

Their grapes are grapes of gall,

Their clusters are bitter" (Deuteronomy 32:32).

This must be distinguished from the "Apples of Sodom" (which see), described by Josephus (BJ, IV, viii, 4), which appear to have been an actual species of fruit, probably either the colocynth or the fruit of the Usher tree, Calotropis procera. It would appear, however, from the above, the only passage referring to the Vine of Sodom, that this expression is metaphorical and does not refer to any particular plant.

E. W. G. Masterman

SEA OF SODOM (SODOMITISH sod-om-it'-ish).

See DEAD SEA.

Greek

4670. Sodoma -- Sodom, an unidentified city in the Jordan Valley
... Sodom, an unidentified city in the Jordan Valley. Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter
Transliteration: Sodoma Phonetic Spelling: (sod'-om-ah) Short Definition: Sodom ...
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Strong's Hebrew

1298. Bera -- a king of Sodom
... 1297, 1298. Bera. 1299 . a king of Sodom. Transliteration: Bera Phonetic
Spelling: (beh'-rah) Short Definition: Bera. Word Origin ...
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6636. Tseboim -- a place near Sodom
... 6635, 6636. Tseboim or Tseboyim. 6637 . a place near Sodom. Transliteration:
Tseboim or Tseboyim Phonetic Spelling: (tseb-o-eem') Short Definition: Zeboiim ...
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126. Admah -- a city near Sodom and Gomorrah
... 125, 126. Admah. 127 . a city near Sodom and Gomorrah. Transliteration:
Admah Phonetic Spelling: (ad-maw') Short Definition: Admah. ...
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5467. Sedom -- a Canaanite city near the Dead Sea
... 5466, 5467. Sedom. 5468 . a Canaanite city near the Dead Sea. Transliteration:
Sedom Phonetic Spelling: (sed-ome') Short Definition: Sodom. ... Sodom. ...
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Library

'As Sodom'
... 'AS SODOM'. 'Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to reign,
and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's ...
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The Sea of Sodom
... A Chorographical Century. Chapters 1-10 Chapter 5 The Sea of Sodom. The
bounds of Judea, on both sides, are the sea; the western ...
/.../lightfoot/from the talmud and hebraica/chapter 5 the sea of.htm

Sodom, Capernaum, Manchester
... SODOM, CAPERNAUM, MANCHESTER. 'Then began He ... Jesus Christ. But now,
mark;"as Capernaum is to Sodom, so is Manchester to Capernaum! I ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture b/sodom capernaum manchester.htm

Lot's Flight from Sodom.
... LOT'S FLIGHT FROM SODOM. In Palestine, the land in ... Sea now cover. These
cities were named Sodom and Gomorrah. Their inhabitants ...
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Lot in Sodom. Gen 13:10
... BOOK I. On select Passages of Scripture. GENESIS Hymn 5 Lot in Sodom.
Gen 13:10. John Newton 8,6,8,6. Lot in Sodom. Gen 13:10. ...
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Of Lot's Deliverance from Sodom, and Its Consumption by Fire from ...
... Book XVI. Chapter 30."Of Lot's Deliverance from Sodom, and Its Consumption by Fire
from Heaven; And of Abimelech, Whose Lust Could Not Harm Sarah's Chastity. ...
/.../augustine/city of god/chapter 30 of lots deliverance from.htm

A Strain of Sodom.
... X. Appendix. [Translated by the Rev. S. Thelwall.] 2. A Strain of Sodom. ... 15 For ruin,
but to fires: thus did the land. Of Sodom earn to be by glowing dews. ...
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Of Abraham's Overcoming the Enemies of Sodom, when He Delivered ...
... Book XVI. Chapter 22."Of Abraham's Overcoming the Enemies of Sodom, When He Delivered
Lot from Captivity and Was Blessed by Melchizedek the Priest. ...
/.../augustine/city of god/chapter 22 of abrahams overcoming the.htm

"Hear the Word of the Lord, Ye Rulers of Sodom, Give Ear unto the ...
... Sermon VIII. "Hear the word of the Lord, ye rulers of Sodom, give ear unto
the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah,". Isaiah i.10 ...
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Demonstration xxi. --Of Persecution.
... 3. Furthermore I questioned him about another saying that is written in Ezekiel;
namely, that he said to Jerusalem:"Sodom and her daughters shall be built up ...
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Thesaurus

Sodom (49 Occurrences)
... site of Zoar, on the south-west coast of the Dead Sea, is a range of low hills,
forming a mass of mineral salt called Jebel Usdum, "the hill of Sodom." It has ...
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Gomor'rah (23 Occurrences)
... Matthew 10:15 verily I say to you, It shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom
and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city. (See RSV). ...
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Gomorrah (25 Occurrences)
... This city is always mentioned next after Sodom, both of which were types
of impiety and wickedness (Genesis 18:20; Romans 9:29). ...
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Admah (6 Occurrences)
... Earth, one of the five cities of the vale of Siddim (Genesis 10:19). It was destroyed
along with Sodom and Gomorrah (19:24; Deuteronomy 29:23). ...
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Zeboiim (7 Occurrences)
... im (tsebhoyim; the Septuagint uniformly Sebo(e)im; the King James Version, Zeboim):
One of the cities in the Vale of Siddim, destroyed with Sodom and Gomorrah. ...
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Siddim (3 Occurrences)
... Here Chedorlaomer and the confederate kings overthrew the kings of Sodom and the
cities of the plain. ... (see SODOM.). Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. ...
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Amraphel (2 Occurrences)
... King of Shinar, southern Chaldea, one of the confederates of Chedorlaomer, king
of Elam, in a war against Sodom and cities of the plain (Genesis 14:1, 4). It ...
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Ciccar
... See PLAIN; CITIES OF THE PLAIN. CITIES OF THE PLAIN; CICCAR. sit'-iz, plan, (kikkar
ha-yarden): Included Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, Zeboiim and Zoar. ...
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Zeboim (7 Occurrences)
... Easton's Bible Dictionary Gazelles or roes. (1.) One of the "five cities of the
plain" of Sodom, generally coupled with Admah (Genesis 10:19; 14:2; Deuteronomy ...
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Overthrew (17 Occurrences)
... 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 ...
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Bible Concordance

Sodom (49 Occurrences)

Matthew 10:15 Most certainly I tell you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Matthew 11:23 You, Capernaum, who are exalted to heaven, you will go down to Hades. For if the mighty works had been done in Sodom which were done in you, it would have remained until this day.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Matthew 11:24 But I tell you that it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom, on the day of judgment, than for you."
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Mark 6:11 Whoever will not receive you nor hear you, as you depart from there, shake off the dust that is under your feet for a testimony against them. Assuredly, I tell you, it will be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city!"
(WEB KJV WBS YLT)

Luke 10:12 I tell you, it will be more tolerable in that day for Sodom than for that city.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Luke 17:29 but in the day that Lot went out from Sodom, it rained fire and sulfur from the sky, and destroyed them all.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Romans 9:29 As Isaiah has said before, "Unless the Lord of Armies had left us a seed, we would have become like Sodom, and would have been made like Gomorrah."
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

2 Peter 2:6 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;
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Jude 1:7 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.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Revelation 11:8 Their dead bodies will be in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Genesis 10:19 The border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as you go toward Gerar, to Gaza; as you go toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, to Lasha.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Genesis 13:10 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.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Genesis 13:12 Abram lived in the land of Canaan, and Lot lived in the cities of the plain, and moved his tent as far as Sodom.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Genesis 13:13 Now the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and sinners against Yahweh.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Genesis 14:2 that they made war with Bera, king of Sodom, and with Birsha, king of Gomorrah, Shinab, king of Admah, and Shemeber, king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (the same is Zoar).
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Genesis 14:8 The king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrah, and the king of Admah, and the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (the same is Zoar) went out; and they set the battle in array against them in the valley of Siddim;
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Genesis 14:10 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.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Genesis 14:11 They took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their food, and went their way.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Genesis 14:12 They took Lot, Abram's brother's son, who lived in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Genesis 14:17 The king of Sodom went out to meet him, after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him, at the valley of Shaveh (that is, the King's Valley).
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Genesis 14:21 The king of Sodom said to Abram, "Give me the people, and take the goods to yourself."
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Genesis 14:22 Abram said to the king of Sodom, "I have lifted up my hand to Yahweh, God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth,
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Genesis 18:16 The men rose up from there, and looked toward Sodom. Abraham went with them to see them on their way.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Genesis 18:20 Yahweh said, "Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous,
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Genesis 18:22 The men turned from there, and went toward Sodom, but Abraham stood yet before Yahweh.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Genesis 18:26 Yahweh said, "If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sake."
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Genesis 19:1 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,
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Genesis 19:4 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.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Genesis 19:24 Then Yahweh rained on Sodom and on Gomorrah sulfur and fire from Yahweh out of the sky.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Genesis 19:28 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.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Deuteronomy 29:23 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:
(KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Deuteronomy 32:32 For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, of the fields of Gomorrah. Their grapes are grapes of gall, Their clusters are bitter.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Job 22:8 But as for the mighty man, he had the earth. The honorable man, he lived in it. 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:
(WEB)

Isaiah 1:9 Unless Yahweh of Armies had left to us a very small remnant, we would have been as Sodom; we would have been like Gomorrah.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Isaiah 1:10 Hear the word of Yahweh, you rulers of Sodom! Listen to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah!
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Isaiah 3:9 The look of their faces testify against them. They parade their sin like Sodom. They don't hide it. Woe to their soul! For they have brought disaster upon themselves.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Isaiah 13:19 Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans' pride, will be like when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Jeremiah 23:14 In the prophets of Jerusalem also I have seen a horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies; and they strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that none does return from his wickedness: they are all of them become to me as Sodom, and its inhabitants as Gomorrah.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Jeremiah 49:18 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 sojourn therein.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Jeremiah 50:40 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 sojourn therein.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Lamentations 4:6 For the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the sin of Sodom, That was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands were laid on her.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Ezekiel 16:46 Your elder sister is Samaria, who dwells at your left hand, she and her daughters; and your younger sister, who dwells at your right hand, is Sodom and her daughters.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Ezekiel 16:48 As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, Sodom your sister has not done, she nor her daughters, as you have done, you and your daughters.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Ezekiel 16:49 Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: pride, fullness of bread, and prosperous ease was in her and in her daughters; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Ezekiel 16:53 I will turn again their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters, and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, and the captivity of your captives in the midst of them;
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Ezekiel 16:55 Your sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shall return to their former estate; and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former estate; and you and your daughters shall return to your former estate.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Ezekiel 16:56 For your sister Sodom was not mentioned by your mouth in the day of your pride,
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Amos 4:11 "I have overthrown some of you, as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a burning stick plucked out of the fire; yet you haven't returned to me," says Yahweh. Malachi
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Zephaniah 2:9 Therefore as I live, says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, surely Moab will be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, a possession of nettles, and salt pits, and a perpetual desolation. The remnant of my people will plunder them, and the survivors of my nation will inherit them.
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Subtopics

Sodom

Sodom of Wickedness

Sodom: Abraham's Intercession For

Sodom: Destroyed on Account of the Wickedness of the People

Sodom: King of, Joins Other Kings of the Nations Resisting the Invasion of Chedorlaomer

Sodom: Lot Lived In

Sodom: Situated on the Plain of the Jordan River

Sodom: The Southeastern Limit of the Canaanites

Sodom: Wickedness of the Inhabitants of

Related Terms

Gomor'rah (23 Occurrences)