Genesis 19:24
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24 Then the Lord poured sulphur that was on fire down on Sodom and Gomorrah. It fell from the sky like rain.[a]
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- 19:24 God used hot sulphur to destroy the cities. Sulphur is yellow. It burns quickly with a lot of heat. But when it gets cold, it becomes like stone. Hot sulphur covered the cities and the people in them. It burnt them. It became like stone over everything in the city.
Jeremiah 23:14
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14 But now some prophets in Jerusalem do even worse things!
They are not faithful to their wives.[a]
They always deceive people.
They encourage people to do evil things.
They do not try to stop them.
They are as bad as the people of Sodom long ago.
The people of Jerusalem are as bad as the people of Gomorrah.[b]
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- 23:14 ‘faithful to their wives’ or ‘faithful to God’.
- 23:14 There were not even 10 good men in the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. So the Lord had destroyed those cities. See Genesis 18:20-33; 19:5-9.
Ezekiel 16:46
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46 Your older sister was Samaria. She and her daughters lived north of you. Your younger sister was Sodom. She and her daughters lived south of you.
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Revelation 11:8
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8 Their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city where people killed their Lord on a cross.[a] This city should be called Sodom or Egypt, because it is as bad as those places.[b]
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- 11:8 People killed Jesus Christ on a cross outside the city of Jerusalem in Israel. The leaders of Israel's people caused Jesus to die there. They refused to recognize him as Lord.
- 11:8 Sodom and Egypt were also places where the people did not obey God. See Genesis 18:20-21; 19:13,24-25 and Exodus 1:13-14.
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