Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.

Bible References

A fruitful

Genesis 13:10
And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as you came unto Zoar.
Genesis 19:25
And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.
Deuteronomy 29:23
And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor does it bear, nor any grass grows therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:
Isaiah 32:13
Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the joyous houses in the joyous city:

Barrenness

Genesis 14:3
All these were joined together in the Valley of Siddim, which is the salt sea.
Ezekiel 47:11
But its swamps and its marshes shall not be healed; they shall be given over to salt.

General references

Genesis 19:25
And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.
Isaiah 42:15
I will lay waste the mountains and hills, and dry up all their vegetation; and I will turn the rivers into islands, and I will dry up the pools.
Jeremiah 5:25
Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withheld good things from you.