and if ʜᴇ condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction, burning them down to ashes, and making them an example to those who would live in an ungodly way;
Similarly, Sodom, Gomorrah, and the cities around them, gave themselves over to sexual immorality and pursued flesh in unnatural ways. They are displayed as an example by suffering the punishment of eternal fire.
that all of its land is sulfur, salt, and burning, that it is not sown, doesn’t produce, nor does any grass grow in it, like the overthrow of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, which YHWH overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath.
and the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korah when that company died; at the time the fire devoured two hundred fifty men, and they became a sign.
Therefore, as I live, says YHWH Almighty, the God of Israel, surely Moab will be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, a possession of nettles and salt pits, and a perpetual desolation. The remnant of my people will plunder them, and the survivors of my nation will inherit them.
“I have overthrown some of y’all, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and y’all were like a burning stick plucked out of the fire, yet y’all haven’t returned to me,” says YHWH.
“How can I give you up, Ephraim? How can I hand you over, Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I make you like Zeboiim? My heart is turned within me, my compassion is aroused.
to execute judgment on all and to convict all the ungodly concerning all their deeds of ungodliness that they have done in an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against ʜɪᴍ.”
As for the censers of those who sinned against their own lives, y’all are beat them into plates for a covering of the altar, for they offered them before YHWH. Therefore they are holy. They will be a sign to the children of Israel.”
You, Capernaum, who are exalted to heaven, you will go down to Hades. For if the miracles that were done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until today.
As Isaiah has said before, “Unless the Lord of Armies had left us a seed, we would have become like Sodom, and would have been made to resemble Gomorrah.”