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Luke 17:29

But on the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all.

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ASV

but in the day that Lot went out from Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all:

KJV

But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.

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16 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
ᾗhēin thatG3739 →
δὲdethenG1161 →
ἡμέρᾳhēmeradayG2250 →
ἐξῆλθενexēlthenwent outG1831 →
ΛὼτLōtLotG3091 →
ἀπὸapofromG575 →
Σοδόμων,SodomōnSodom,G4670 →
ἔβρεξενebrexenit rainedG1026 →
πῦρpurfireG4442 →
καὶkaiandG2532 →
θεῖονtheionbrimstoneG2303 →
ἀπ᾽ap᾽fromG575 →
οὐρανοῦouranouheavenG3772 →
καὶkaiandG2532 →
ἀπώλεσενapōlesendestroyedG622 →
πάντας·pantasall;G3956 →

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Psalms 11:6On the wicked He will rain down fiery coals and sulfur; a scorching wind will be their portion.2 Peter 2:6if He condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction, reducing them to ashes as an example of what is coming on the ungodly;Jeremiah 50:40As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah along with their neighbors,” declares the LORD, “no one will dwell there; no man will abide there.Zephaniah 2:9Therefore, as surely as I live,” declares the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, “surely Moab will be like Sodom and the Ammonites like Gomorrah—a place of weeds and salt pits, a perpetual wasteland. The remnant of My people will plunder them; the remainder of My nation will dispossess them.”Jude 1:7In like manner, Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, who indulged in sexual immorality and pursued strange flesh, are on display as an example of those who sustain the punishment of eternal fire.Revelation 11:8Their bodies will lie in the street of the great city—figuratively called Sodom and Egypt—where their Lord was also crucified.Matthew 11:23–24And you, Capernaum, will you be lifted up to heaven? No, you will be brought down to Hades! For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Sodom, it would have remained to this day.Isaiah 13:19And Babylon, the jewel of the kingdoms, the glory of the pride of the Chaldeans, will be overthrown by God like Sodom and Gomorrah.Deuteronomy 29:23–25All its soil will be a burning waste of sulfur and salt, unsown and unproductive, with no plant growing on it, just like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in His fierce anger.Deuteronomy 29:23All its soil will be a burning waste of sulfur and salt, unsown and unproductive, with no plant growing on it, just like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in His fierce anger.Revelation 20:9And they marched across the broad expanse of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city. But fire came down from heaven and consumed them.Hosea 11:8How could I give you up, O Ephraim? How could I surrender you, O Israel? How could I make you like Admah? How could I treat you like Zeboiim? My heart is turned within Me; My compassion is stirred!Amos 4:11“Some of you I overthrew as I overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a firebrand snatched from a blaze, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.Isaiah 1:9Unless the LORD of Hosts had left us a few survivors, we would have become like Sodom, we would have resembled Gomorrah.Isaiah 34:9Edom’s streams will be turned to tar, and her soil to sulfur; her land will become a blazing pitch.Jeremiah 20:16May that man be like the cities that the LORD overthrew without compassion. May he hear an outcry in the morning and a battle cry at noon,Genesis 19:16–25But when Lot hesitated, the men grabbed his hand and the hands of his wife and his two daughters. And they led them safely out of the city, because of the LORD’s compassion for them.

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