Then the LORD rained down sulfur and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah—from the LORD out of the heavens.
Parallel translations
- WEB Then Yahweh rained on Sodom and on Gomorrah sulfur and fire from Yahweh out of the sky.
- KJV Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven;
- NKJV Then the Lord rained brimstone and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah, from the Lord out of the heavens.
- NASB Then the Lord rained brimstone and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah from the Lord out of heaven,
- NLT Then the Lord rained down fire and burning sulfur from the sky on Sodom and Gomorrah.
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Quick answer
The LORD rains down burning sulfur on Sodom and Gomorrah from heaven.
Overview
This is direct divine judgment, described as fire and sulfur from the LORD out of the sky. The cities become a lasting biblical emblem of God's wrath against grievous sin (Luke 17:29; Jude 7). The event warns of the final judgment while magnifying the mercy shown to those rescued.
Cross-references & the web
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- 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.
- 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.
- 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;
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Hos 11:8How could I give you up, O Ephraim? How could I surrender you, O Israel? How could I make you like Admah? How could I treat you like Zeboiim? My heart is turned within Me; My compassion is stirred!
- Ezek 16:49–50Now this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed, and complacent; they did not help the poor and needy.
- 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,
- Ps 11:6On the wicked He will rain down fiery coals and sulfur; a scorching wind will be their portion.
- 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.”
- 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.
- Luke 17:28–29It was the same in the days of Lot: People were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building.
- Job 18:15Fire resides in his tent; burning sulfur rains down on his dwelling.
- 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.
- Isa 1:9Unless the LORD of Hosts had left us a few survivors, we would have become like Sodom, we would have resembled Gomorrah.
- Matt 11:23–24And you, Capernaum, will you be lifted up to heaven? No, you will be brought down to Hades! For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Sodom, it would have remained to this day.
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