Genesis 19:25
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Thus He destroyed these cities and the entire plain, including all the inhabitants of the cities and everything that grew on the ground.”
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“Thus He destroyed these cities and the entire plain, including all the inhabitants of the cities and everything that grew on the ground.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.”
King James Version · Public Domain“and he overthrew those cities, and all the Plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“and He overthroweth these cities, and all the circuit, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which is shooting up from the ground.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Genesis 19:25 — 6 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 13:10And Lot looked out and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan, all the way to Zoar, was well watered like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt. (This was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)
- Genesis 14:3The latter five came as allies to the Valley of Siddim (that is, the Salt Sea).
- Psalms 107:34and fruitful land into fields of salt, because of the wickedness of its dwellers.
- Jeremiah 20:16May that man be like the cities that the LORD overthrew without compassion. May he hear an outcry in the morning and a battle cry at noon,
- Jeremiah 23:14And among the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen a horrible thing: They commit adultery and walk in lies. They strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that no one turns his back on wickedness. They are all like Sodom to Me; the people of Jerusalem are like Gomorrah.”
- Zephaniah 2:9Therefore, as surely as I live,” declares the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, “surely Moab will be like Sodom and the Ammonites like Gomorrah— a place of weeds and salt pits, a perpetual wasteland. The remnant of My people will plunder them; the remainder of My nation will dispossess them.”
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