Thus they were haughty and committed abominations before Me. Therefore I removed them, as you have seen.
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- WEB They were haughty, and committed abomination before me. Therefore I took them away when I saw it.
- KJV And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw good.
- NKJV And they were haughty and committed abomination before Me; therefore I took them away as I saw fit.
- NASB So they were haughty and committed abominations before Me. Therefore I removed them when I saw it.
- NLT She was proud and committed detestable sins, so I wiped her out, as you have seen.
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Sodom grew haughty and committed abomination, so God removed her. Pride ripened into open wickedness and judgment.
Overview
From proud ease (verse 49) Sodom advanced to 'abomination before me,' and God 'took them away' (Genesis 19). The progression from pride to gross sin to destruction is instructive. Yet the point remains comparative: even Sodom's judged wickedness was less than Jerusalem's, heightening the latter's guilt.
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- Gen 13:13But the men of Sodom were wicked, sinning greatly against the LORD.
- Gen 19:5They called out to Lot, saying, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Send them out to us so we can have relations with them!”
- Gen 18:20Then the LORD said, “The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great. Because their sin is so grievous,
- Gen 19:24Then the LORD rained down sulfur and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah—from the LORD out of the heavens.
- 2 Kgs 23:7He also tore down the quarters of the male shrine prostitutes that were in the house of the LORD, where the women had woven tapestries for Asherah.
- Deut 29:23All its soil will be a burning waste of sulfur and salt, unsown and unproductive, with no plant growing on it, just like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in His fierce anger.
- Prov 18:12Before his downfall a man’s heart is proud, but humility comes before honor.
- Jer 49:18As Sodom and Gomorrah were overthrown along with their neighbors,” says the LORD, “no one will dwell there; no man will abide there.
- Job 18:15Fire resides in his tent; burning sulfur rains down on his dwelling.
- Zeph 2:9Therefore, as surely as I live,” declares the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, “surely Moab will be like Sodom and the Ammonites like Gomorrah—a place of weeds and salt pits, a perpetual wasteland. The remnant of My people will plunder them; the remainder of My nation will dispossess them.”
- Amos 4:11“Some of you I overthrew as I overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a firebrand snatched from a blaze, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.
- Isa 13:19And Babylon, the jewel of the kingdoms, the glory of the pride of the Chaldeans, will be overthrown by God like Sodom and Gomorrah.
- Lam 4:6The punishment of the daughter of my people is greater than that of Sodom, which was overthrown in an instant without a hand turned to help her.
- Lev 18:22You must not lie with a man as with a woman; that is an abomination.
- Rom 1:26–27For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones.
- Deut 23:17No daughter or son of Israel is to be a shrine prostitute.
- Jer 20:16May that man be like the cities that the LORD overthrew without compassion. May he hear an outcry in the morning and a battle cry at noon,
- Jer 50:40As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah along with their neighbors,” declares the LORD, “no one will dwell there; no man will abide there.
- Rev 18:9Then the kings of the earth who committed sexual immorality and lived in luxury with her will weep and wail at the sight of the smoke rising from the fire that consumes her.
- Prov 16:18Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
- Jude 1:7In like manner, Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, who indulged in sexual immorality and pursued strange flesh, are on display as an example of those who sustain the punishment of eternal fire.
- 2 Pet 2:6if He condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction, reducing them to ashes as an example of what is coming on the ungodly;
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