Deuteronomy 29:23

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Summary

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:

Brimstone

Salt

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Amos 4:11

General references

Luke 17:29

Bible References

Brimstone

There shall dwell in his tent that which is none of his. Sulfur shall be scattered on his habitation.

Its streams will be turned into pitch, its dust into sulfur, And its land will become burning pitch.

but in the day that Lot went out from Sodom, it rained fire and sulfur from the sky, and destroyed them all.

The beast was taken, and with him the false prophet who worked the signs in his sight, with which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image. These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur.

Salt

Abimelech fought against the city all that day; and he took the city, and killed the people who were therein: and he beat down the city, and sowed it with salt.

and a fruitful land into a salt waste, for the wickedness of those who dwell in it.

For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good comes, but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, a salt land and not inhabited.

But the miry places of it, and its marshes, shall not be healed; they shall be given up to salt.

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.

Salt is good, but if the salt becomes flat and tasteless, with what do you season it?

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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).

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

Let that man be as the cities which Yahweh overthrew, and didn't repent: and let him hear a cry in the morning, and shouting at noontime;

"How can I give you up, Ephraim? How can I hand you over, Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I make you like Zeboiim? My heart is turned within me, my compassion is aroused.

"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.

General references

Its streams will be turned into pitch, its dust into sulfur, And its land will become burning pitch.

Many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say every man to his neighbor, Why has Yahweh done thus to this great city?

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 live therein.

The land that was desolate shall be tilled, whereas it was a desolation in the sight of all who passed by.

but in the day that Lot went out from Sodom, it rained fire and sulfur from the sky, and destroyed them all.