SODOM

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• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Genesis 13:13

  Now the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and sinners against Yahweh.

• Genesis 14:1

  In the days of Amraphel, king of Shinar, Arioch, king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer, king of Elam, and Tidal, king of Goiim,

• Genesis 14:2

  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 (also called Zoar).

• Genesis 14:3

  All these joined together in the valley of Siddim (also called the Salt Sea).

• Genesis 14:4

  They served Chedorlaomer for twelve years, and in the thirteenth year, they rebelled.

• Genesis 14:5

  In the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer came, and the kings who were with him, and struck the Rephaim in Ashteroth Karnaim, and the Zuzim in Ham, and the Emim in Shaveh Kiriathaim,

• Genesis 14:6

  and the Horites in their Mount Seir, to El Paran, which is by the wilderness.

• Genesis 14:7

  They returned, and came to En Mishpat (also called Kadesh), and struck all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, that lived in Hazazon Tamar.

• 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 (also called Zoar) went out; and they set the battle in array against them in the valley of Siddim;

• Genesis 14:9

  against Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim, and Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar; four kings against the five.

• Genesis 14:10

  Now the valley of Siddim was full of tar pits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and some fell there, and those who remained fled to the hills.

• Genesis 14:11

  They took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their food, and went their way.

• Genesis 14:12

  They took Lot, Abram’s brother’s son, who lived in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.

• Genesis 18:16

  The men rose up from there, and looked toward Sodom. Abraham went with them to see them on their way.

• Genesis 18:17

  Yahweh said, “Will I hide from Abraham what I do,

• Genesis 18:18

  since Abraham will surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed in him?

• Genesis 18:19

  For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Yahweh may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him.”

• Genesis 18:20

  Yahweh said, “Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous,

• Genesis 18:21

  I will go down now, and see whether their deeds are as bad as the reports which have come to me. If not, I will know.”

• Genesis 18:22

  The men turned from there, and went toward Sodom, but Abraham stood yet before Yahweh.

• Genesis 18:23

  Abraham came near, and said, “Will you consume the righteous with the wicked?

• Genesis 18:24

  What if there are fifty righteous within the city? Will you consume and not spare the place for the fifty righteous who are in it?

• Genesis 18:25

  Be it far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be like the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn’t the Judge of all the earth do right?”

• Genesis 18:26

  Yahweh said, “If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare the whole place for their sake.”

• Genesis 18:27

  Abraham answered, “See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord, although I am dust and ashes.

• Genesis 18:28

  What if there will lack five of the fifty righteous? Will you destroy all the city for lack of five?” He said, “I will not destroy it if I find forty-five there.”

• Genesis 18:29

  He spoke to him yet again, and said, “What if there are forty found there?” He said, “I will not do it for the forty’s sake.”

• Genesis 18:30

  He said, “Oh don’t let the Lord be angry, and I will speak. What if there are thirty found there?” He said, “I will not do it if I find thirty there.”

• Genesis 18:31

  He said, “See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord. What if there are twenty found there?” He said, “I will not destroy it for the twenty’s sake.”

• Genesis 18:32

  He said, “Oh don’t let the Lord be angry, and I will speak just once more. What if ten are found there?” He said, “I will not destroy it for the ten’s sake.”

• Genesis 18:33

  Yahweh went his way, as soon as he had finished communing with Abraham, and Abraham returned to his place.

• 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,

• Genesis 19:2

  and he said, “See now, my lords, please turn aside into your servant’s house, stay all night, wash your feet, and you can rise up early, and go on your way.” They said, “No, but we will stay in the street all night.”

• Genesis 19:3

  He urged them greatly, and they came in with him, and entered into his house. He made them a feast, and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.

• 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.

• Genesis 19:5

  They called to Lot, and said to him, “Where are the men who came in to you this night? Bring them out to us, that we may have sex with them.”

• Genesis 19:6

  Lot went out to them to the door, and shut the door after him.

• Genesis 19:7

  He said, “Please, my brothers, don’t act so wickedly.

• Genesis 19:8

  See now, I have two virgin daughters. Please let me bring them out to you, and you may do to them what seems good to you. Only don’t do anything to these men, because they have come under the shadow of my roof.”

• Genesis 19:9

  They said, “Stand back!” Then they said, “This one fellow came in to live as a foreigner, and he appoints himself a judge. Now will we deal worse with you, than with them!” They pressed hard on the man Lot, and came near to break the door.

• Genesis 19:10

  But the men reached out their hand, and brought Lot into the house to them, and shut the door.

• Genesis 19:11

  They struck the men who were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great, so that they wearied themselves to find the door.

• Genesis 19:12

  The men said to Lot, “Do you have anybody else here? Sons-in-law, your sons, your daughters, and whoever you have in the city, bring them out of the place:

• Genesis 19:13

  for we will destroy this place, because the outcry against them has grown so great before Yahweh that Yahweh has sent us to destroy it.”

• Genesis 19:14

  Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry his daughters, and said, “Get up! Get out of this place, for Yahweh will destroy the city.” But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be joking.

• Genesis 19:15

  When the morning came, then the angels hurried Lot, saying, “Get up! Take your wife, and your two daughters who are here, lest you be consumed in the iniquity of the city.”

• Genesis 19:16

  But he lingered; and the men grabbed his hand, his wife’s hand, and his two daughters’ hands, Yahweh being merciful to him; and they took him out, and set him outside of the city.

• Genesis 19:17

  It came to pass, when they had taken them out, that he said, “Escape for your life! Don’t look behind you, and don’t stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountains, lest you be consumed!”

• Genesis 19:18

  Lot said to them, “Oh, not so, my lord.

• Genesis 19:19

  See now, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have magnified your loving kindness, which you have shown to me in saving my life. I can’t escape to the mountain, lest evil overtake me, and I die.

• Genesis 19:20

  See now, this city is near to flee to, and it is a little one. Oh let me escape there (isn’t it a little one?), and my soul will live.”

• Genesis 19:21

  He said to him, “Behold, I have granted your request concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow the city of which you have spoken.

• Genesis 19:22

  Hurry, escape there, for I can’t do anything until you get there.” Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.

• Genesis 19:23

  The sun had risen on the earth when Lot came to Zoar.

• Genesis 19:24

  Then Yahweh rained on Sodom and on Gomorrah sulfur and fire from Yahweh out of the sky.

• Genesis 19:25

  He overthrew those cities, all the plain, all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew on the ground.

• Genesis 19:26

  But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.

• Genesis 19:27

  Abraham got up early in the morning to the place where he had stood before Yahweh.

• 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.

• Genesis 19:29

  When God destroyed the cities of the plain, God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the middle of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.

• Deuteronomy 23:17

  There shall be no prostitute of the daughters of Israel, neither shall there be a sodomite of the sons of Israel.

• Deuteronomy 29:23

  and that all of its land is sulfur, salt, and burning, that it is not sown, doesn’t produce, nor does any grass grow in it, like the overthrow of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, which Yahweh overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath;

• Deuteronomy 32:32

  For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, of the fields of Gomorrah. Their grapes are poison grapes. Their clusters are bitter.

• Isaiah 1:10

  Hear Yahweh’s word, you rulers of Sodom! Listen to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah!

• 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.

• Isaiah 13:19

  Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans’ pride, will be like when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.

• Jeremiah 23:14

  In the prophets of Jerusalem also I have seen a horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies. They strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that no one returns from his wickedness. They have all become to me as Sodom, and its inhabitants as Gomorrah.”

• Jeremiah 49:18

  As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and its neighbor cities,” says Yahweh, “no man will dwell there, neither will any son of man live therein.

• Jeremiah 50:40

  As when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and its neighbor cities,” says Yahweh, “so no man will dwell there, neither will any son of man live therein.

• 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.

• Ezekiel 1:7

  Their feet were straight feet; and the sole of their feet was like the sole of a calf’s foot; and they sparkled like burnished brass.

• 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.

• Ezekiel 16:47

  Yet you have not walked in their ways, nor done after their abominations; but, soon you were more corrupt than they in all your ways.

• 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.

• 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.

• Ezekiel 16:50

  They were haughty, and committed abomination before me. Therefore I took them away when I saw it.

• Ezekiel 16:51

  Neither has Samaria committed half of your sins; but you have multiplied your abominations more than they, and have justified your sisters by all your abominations which you have done.

• Ezekiel 16:52

  You also, bear your own shame yourself, in that you have given judgment for your sisters; through your sins that you have committed more abominable than they, they are more righteous that you. Yes, be also confounded, and bear your shame, in that you have justified your sisters.

• 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 among them;

• Ezekiel 16:54

  that you may bear your own shame, and may be ashamed because of all that you have done, in that you are a comfort to them.

• Ezekiel 16:55

  Your sisters, Sodom and her daughters, will return to their former estate; and Samaria and her daughters will return to their former estate; and you and your daughters will return to your former estate.

• Ezekiel 16:56

  For your sister Sodom was not mentioned by your mouth in the day of your pride,

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.”

• 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;