See MEROM and SEA. That most terrible description of hell, as a lake burning with fire and brimstone, Re 19:20; 21:8, recalls the fire and sea in which Sodom was consumed and swallowed up.
and the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles in his favour, by which he seduc'd those that had received the mark of the beast, and those that worshipped his image. these were both cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.
but the fearful, and incredulous, the abominable, the murderer, the licentious, the poisoner, the idolater, and every lyar shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone: this is the second death."