And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.
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Interpretation
Lot was good, but there was not one more of the same character in the city. All the people of Sodom were very wicked and vile.
Glossary
- Sodom Place
- Burning; the walled, a city in the vale of Siddim ( Gen. 13:10 ; 14:1-16 ). The wickedness of its inhabitants brought down upon it fire from heaven, by which it was destroyed (18:16-33; 19:1-29; Deut. 23:17 ). Modern identification: south of the Lisan.
- Jordan Valley Place
- Biblical valley. Modern identification: Jordan Valley.
- Gomorrah Place
- Biblical settlement. Modern identification: south of the Lisan.