But on the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all.
Parallel translations
- WEB but in the day that Lot went out from Sodom, it rained fire and sulfur from the sky, and destroyed them all.
- KJV But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.
- NKJV but on the day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all.
- NASB but on the day that Lot left Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all.
- NLT until the morning Lot left Sodom. Then fire and burning sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all.
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Quick answer
On the very day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur fell and destroyed everyone. Judgment came swiftly and completely once the righteous were removed.
Overview
The destruction of Sodom (Genesis 19) is a sober historical picture of sudden, total judgment. Its arrival the same day Lot departed underscores that the day of the Son of Man will break in decisively. The verse holds together God's mercy in delivering and his justice in judging.
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- 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;
- 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.”
- Rev 11:8Their bodies will lie in the street of the great city—figuratively called Sodom and Egypt—where their Lord was also crucified.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Deut 29:23–25All 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.
- 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.
- 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 1:9Unless the LORD of Hosts had left us a few survivors, we would have become like Sodom, we would have resembled Gomorrah.
- 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!
- Gen 19:16–25But when Lot hesitated, the men grabbed his hand and the hands of his wife and his two daughters. And they led them safely out of the city, because of the LORD’s compassion for them.
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