Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
A fruitful
Barrenness
General references
Bible References
A fruitful
Genesis 13:10
And Lot, lifting up his eyes and looking an the valley of Jordan, saw that it was well watered everywhere, before the Lord had sent destruction on Sodom and Gomorrah; it was like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, on the way to Zoar.
Genesis 19:25
And he sent destruction on those towns, with all the lowland and all the people of those towns and every green thing in the land.
Deuteronomy 29:23
And that all the land is a salt and smoking waste, not planted or giving fruit or clothed with grass, but wasted like Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, on which the Lord sent destruction in the heat of his wrath:
Isaiah 32:13
And for the land of my people, where thorns will come up; even for all the houses of joy in the glad town.
Barrenness
Genesis 14:3
All these came together in the valley of Siddim (which is the Salt Sea).
Ezekiel 47:11
The wet places and the pools will not be made sweet; they will be given up to salt.
General references
Genesis 19:25
And he sent destruction on those towns, with all the lowland and all the people of those towns and every green thing in the land.
Isaiah 42:15
I will make waste mountains and hills, drying up all their plants; and I will make rivers dry, and pools dry land.
Jeremiah 5:25
Through your evil-doing these things have been turned away, and your sins have kept back good from you.