Deuteronomy 29:23

Modern English Version

“The whole land is brimstone and salt, a burning waste, unsown and unproductive, and no grass grows there, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboyim, which the Lord overthrew in His anger and wrath.”

Cross References

Genesis 14:2

they made war with Bera king of Sodom, Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, Shemeber king of Zeboyim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar).

1 Kings 9:8

And everyone who passes by this high house will be astonished and will hiss, and they shall say, ‘Why has the Lord done this to this land, and to this house?’

1 Kings 9:9

And they will answer, ‘Because they forsook the Lord their God, who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and took hold of other gods and have worshipped and served them. That is why the Lord has brought all this disaster upon them.’ ”

2 Kings 22:13

“Go, inquire of the Lord for me, for the people, and for all Judah concerning the words of this book that has been found, for great is the wrath of the Lord that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not obeyed the words of this book by doing according to all that is written concerning us.”

Job 18:15

They dwell in his tent who have no part with him; brimstone will be scattered upon his habitation.

Psalm 107:34

a fruitful land into barrenness, because of the wickedness of those who dwell therein.

Isaiah 1:7

Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire; strangers devour your land in your presence; and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.

Isaiah 13:19

Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldean’s excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.

Isaiah 34:9

Its streams shall be turned into pitch, and its dust into brimstone, and its land shall become burning pitch.

Isaiah 64:11

Our holy and beautiful house where our fathers praised You is burned up with fire; and all our precious things are laid waste.

Jeremiah 17:6

For he will be like a bush in the desert and will not see when good comes, but will inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.

Jeremiah 20:16

Let that man be as the cities which the Lord overthrew and did not relent, and let him hear the cry in the morning and the shout of alarm at noon,

Jeremiah 49:18

As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighboring cities, says the Lord, no man will abide there, nor will a son of man dwell in it.

Jeremiah 9:11

I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins and a den of jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.

Ezekiel 47:11

But its miry places and its marshes shall not be healed. They shall be given to salt.

Leviticus 26:32

I will bring the land into desolation, and your enemies that dwell there shall be astonished at it.

Amos 4:11

I destroyed some of you, as God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah. You were like a firebrand plucked out of the fire; yet you did not return to Me, says the Lord.

Zephaniah 2:9

Therefore, as I live, says the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, surely Moab will be like Sodom, and the Ammonites like Gomorrah— a land of weeds and salt pits, and a perpetual desolation. The remnant of My people will plunder them, and the survivors of My nation will possess them.

Luke 17:29

But on the day that Lot departed from Sodom, fire and brimstone rained from heaven and destroyed them all.

Romans 9:29

And as Isaiah previously said: “Unless the Lord of Hosts had left us a seed, we would have become like Sodom, and been made like Gomorrah.”

Jude 1:7

Just as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the surrounding cities in like manner, gave themselves to immorality and went after different flesh, they serve as an example by suffering the punishment of eternal fire.

Revelation 19:20

But the beast was captured and with him the false prophet who worked signs in his presence, by which he deceived those who received the mark of the beast and those who worshipped his image. These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with brimstone.

Judges 9:45

Abimelech fought against the city all that day. He captured the city and killed the people inside it; he tore down the city and spread salt over it.