Genesis 19:25 BSB — MannaFest

Genesis 19:25

Thus He destroyed these cities and the entire plain, including all the inhabitants of the cities and everything that grew on the ground.

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ASV

and he overthrew those cities, and all the Plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.

KJV

And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.

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Commentary

2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain - This forms what is called the lake Asphaltites, Dead Sea, or Salt Sea, which, according to the most authentic accounts, is about seventy miles in length, and eighteen in breadth. The most strange and incredible tales are told by many of the ancients, and by many of the moderns, concerning the place where these cities stood.

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The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

"The plain which is now covered by the Salt or Dead Sea shows in the great difference of level between the bottoms of the northern and southern ends of the lake--the latter being thirteen feet and the former thirteen hundred--that the southern end was of recent formation, and submerged at the time of the fall of the cities" [LYNCH].

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Original language & word study

13 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַֽיַּהֲפֹךְ֙	vai.ya.ha.foKh	and he overthrew	H2015 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
הֶעָרִ֣ים	he.'a.Rim	the cities	H5892 →
הָאֵ֔ל	ha.'El	<the> these	H411 →
וְאֵ֖ת	ve.'Et	and <obj.>	H853 →
כָּל־	kol-	all	H3605 →
הַכִּכָּ֑ר	ha.ki.Kar	the valley	H3603 →
וְאֵת֙	ve.'Et	and <obj.>	H853 →
כָּל־	kol-	all	H3605 →
יֹשְׁבֵ֣י	yo.she.Vei	[the] inhabitants of	H3427 →
הֶעָרִ֔ים	he.'a.Rim	the cities	H5892 →
וְצֶ֖מַח	ve.Tze.mach	and [the] growth of	H6780 →
הָאֲדָמָֽה׃	ha.'a.da.Mah	the ground	H127 →

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Through
Genesis 13:10
And Lot looked out and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan, all the way to Zoar, was well watered like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt. (This was…
leads to
- Deuteronomy 34:3
  the Negev, and the region from the Valley of Jericho (the City of Palms) all the way to Zoar.
- Isaiah 51:3
  For the LORD will comfort Zion and will look with compassion on all her ruins; He will make her wilderness like Eden and her desert like the garden of the LORD. Joy and gladness…
- Genesis 14:8
  Then the king of Sodom, the king of Gomorrah, the king of Admah, the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar) marched out and arrayed themselves for battle in the…
- Genesis 2:8–10
  And the LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, where He placed the man He had formed.
Through
Psalms 107:34
and fruitful land into fields of salt, because of the wickedness of its dwellers.
leads to
- Genesis 13:10
  And Lot looked out and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan, all the way to Zoar, was well watered like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt. (This was…
- Genesis 14:3
  The latter five came as allies to the Valley of Siddim (that is, the Salt Sea).
Through
Genesis 14:3
The latter five came as allies to the Valley of Siddim (that is, the Salt Sea).
leads to
- Joshua 3:16
  the flowing water stood still. It backed up as far upstream as Adam, a city in the area of Zarethan, while the water flowing toward the Sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea) was…
- Deuteronomy 3:17
  The Jordan River in the Arabah bordered it from Chinnereth to the Sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea) with the slopes of Pisgah to the east.

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