Genesis 19:25

Easy To Read Version

So the Lord destroyed those cities. The Lord destroyed the whole valley—all the plants and all the people living in the cities.

Cross References

Genesis 13:10

Lot looked and saw the Jordan Valley. Lot saw that there was much water there. (This was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah. At that time the Jordan Valley all the way to Zoar was like the Lord’s Garden. This was good land, like the land of Egypt.)

Genesis 13:12

Abram stayed in the land of Canaan, and Lot lived among the cities in the valley. Lot moved far south to Sodom and made his camp there.

Genesis 14:3

All these kings joined their armies in the Valley of Siddim. (The Valley of Siddim is now the Salt Sea.)

Psalm 107:34

God changed the fertile land\par and it became worthless salty land.\par Why? Because of the bad people\par who were living in that place.\par

Isaiah 13:19

“Babylon is the most beautiful of all kingdoms. The Babylonian {\cf2\super [144]} people are very proud of their city.

Jeremiah 20:16

Let that man be the same as\par the cities that the Lord destroyed. {\cf2\super [166]} \par The Lord did not have any pity\par on those cities.\par Let that man hear shouts of war\par in the morning.\par And let him hear battle cries\par at noontime.\par

Jeremiah 23:14

Now I have seen the prophets of Judah\par do those terrible things in Jerusalem.\par These prophets do the sin of adultery. {\cf2\super [187]} \par They listened to lies—and they obeyed\par those false teachings.\par They encourage wicked people\par to continue doing evil things.\par So the people did not stop sinning.\par They are like the people of Sodom {\cf2\super [188]} .\par Now Jerusalem is like Gomorrah {\cf2\super [189]} to me.”\par

Jeremiah 49:18

Edom will be destroyed\par like Sodom and Gomorrah {\cf2\super [401]} \par and the towns around them.\par No people will live there.”\par The Lord said these things.\par

Jeremiah 50:40

God completely destroyed\par Sodom and Gomorrah {\cf2\super [414]} \par and the towns around them.\par \{And no person lives in those towns now.\}\par In the same way, no people\par will live in Babylon.\par And no people will ever go to live there.\par

Lamentations 4:6

The sin of the daughter of my people {\cf2\super [28]} \par was very great.\par Their sin was greater than the sins\par of Sodom and Gomorrah. {\cf2\super [29]} \par Sodom and Gomorrah\par were destroyed suddenly.\par No human hand caused that destruction. {\cf2\super [30]} \par

Ezekiel 16:50

Sodom and her daughters became too proud and began to do terrible things in front of me. And when I saw them doing those things, I punished them.”

Amos 4:11

“I destroyed you like I destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah. {\cf2\super [55]} And those cities were completely destroyed. You were like a burnt stick pulled from a fire. But still you didn’t come back to me \{for help\}.” The Lord said those things.

Zephaniah 2:9

So, as sure as I am alive, Moab and the people of Ammon will be destroyed like Sodom and Gomorrah. {\cf2\super [17]} I am the Lord All-Powerful, the God of Israel. And I promise those countries will be completely destroyed forever. Their land will be overgrown with weeds. Their land will be like the land covered with salt by the Dead Sea. The survivors of my people will take that land and all the things left in it.”

Deuteronomy 29:23

All the land will be useless—destroyed by burning sulfur and covered with salt. The land will have nothing planted in it. Nothing will be growing—not even weeds. The land will be destroyed like Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, the cities the Lord destroyed when he was very angry.

2 Peter 2:6

And God also punished the \{evil\} cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. {\cf2\super [7]} God burned those cities until there was nothing left but ashes. God made those cities be an example to show what will happen to people who are against God.