Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted unto heaven, shalt be brought down to hell: for if the mighty works, which have been done in thee, had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day.

General references

Bible References

Which art

Luke 14:11
"For every one who exalts himself shall be humbled, and he who humbles himself shall be exalted."
2 Peter 2:4
For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them down to Tartarus, and committed them to chains of darkness, and reserved them for judgment;

In sodom

Jude 1:7
So also Sodom and Gomorrah and the near-by cities which in like manner glutted themselves in sensuality and unnatural vice, are exhibited as a warning of the eternal fire, in the punishment they undergo.
Revelation 11:8
And their dead bodies lie in the streets of the great city whose mystical name is 'Sodom' and 'Egypt'??here also their Lord was crucified.

General references

Luke 17:29
"but on the day that Lot left Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all.
John 4:30
They left the city and set out to go to him.
John 10:37
"If I am not doing the deeds of my Father, do not believe me.