Deuteronomy 29:23

God's Word

They will see all the soil poisoned with sulfur and salt. Nothing will be planted. Nothing will be growing. There will be no plants in sight. It will be as desolate as Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, cities the Lord destroyed in fierce anger.

Cross References

Genesis 14:2

went to war against ⌞five kings⌟—King Bera of Sodom, King Birsha of Gomorrah, King Shinab of Admah, King Shemeber of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar).

1 Kings 9:8

Everyone passing by this temple, as impressive as it is, will be appalled. They will gasp and ask, ‘Why did the Lord do these things to this land and this temple?’

1 Kings 9:9

They will answer ⌞themselves⌟, ‘They abandoned the Lord their God, who brought their ancestors out of Egypt. They adopted other gods, worshiped, and served them. That is why the Lord brought this disaster on them.’ ”

2 Kings 22:13

“On behalf of the people, all of Judah, and me, ask the Lord about the words in this book that has been found. The Lord’s fierce anger is directed towards us because our ancestors did not obey the things in this book or do everything written ⌞in it⌟.”

Job 18:15

Fire lives in his tent. Sulfur is scattered over his home.

Psalm 107:34

and fertile ground into a layer of salt because of the wickedness of the people living there.

Isaiah 1:7

“Your country is devastated. Your cities are burned down. Your fields are destroyed right before your eyes by foreigners. Your fields are devastated and taken over by foreigners.

Isaiah 13:19

Babylon, the jewel of the kingdoms, the proud beauty of the Chaldeans, will be like Sodom and Gomorrah when God destroyed them.

Isaiah 34:9

Edom’s streams will be turned to tar. Its soil will be turned to burning sulfur. Its land will become blazing tar.

Isaiah 64:11

Our holy and beautiful temple, where our ancestors praised you, has been burned to the ground. All that we valued has been ruined.

Jeremiah 17:6

He will be like a bush in the wilderness. He will not see when something good comes. He will live in the dry places in the desert, in a salty land where no one can live.

Jeremiah 20:16

May that man be like the cities that the Lord destroyed without pity. May he hear a cry of alarm in the morning and a battle cry at noon.

Jeremiah 49:18

Edom will be like Sodom, Gomorrah, and their neighboring cities when they were destroyed. No one will live there. No human will stay there,” says the Lord.

Jeremiah 9:11

I will turn Jerusalem into a pile of rubble, a home for jackals. I will destroy the cities of Judah so that no one can live there.

Ezekiel 47:11

But the water in the swamps and marshes won’t become fresh. It will remain salty.

Leviticus 26:32

I will make your land so deserted that your enemies will be shocked as they settle in it.

Amos 4:11

I destroyed some of you as I destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah. You were like a burning log snatched from a fire. And you still didn’t return to me, declares the Lord.

Zephaniah 2:9

Therefore, I solemnly swear, as I live,” declares the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, “Moab will become like Sodom, and Ammon will become like Gomorrah: a place of weeds, salt pits, and ruins forever. The faithful few of my people will loot them, and those who are left in my nation will take possession of them.”

Luke 17:29

But on the day that Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained from the sky and destroyed all of them.

Romans 9:29

This is what Isaiah predicted: “If the Lord of Armies hadn’t left us some descendants, we would have been like Sodom and Gomorrah.”

Jude 1:7

What happened to Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities near them is an example for us of the punishment of eternal fire. The people of these cities suffered the same fate that God’s people and the angels did, because they committed sexual sins and engaged in homosexual activities.

Revelation 19:20

The beast and the false prophet who had done miracles for the beast were captured. By these miracles the false prophet had deceived those who had the brand of the beast and worshiped its statue. Both of them were thrown alive into the fiery lake of burning sulfur.

Judges 9:45

Abimelech attacked the city all day long. He captured the city and killed the people in it. He also tore down the city and scattered salt all over the land.