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Genesis 19:24

What does Genesis 19:24 mean?

A plain-English look at Genesis 19:24 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Then Jehovah rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from Jehovah out of heaven;

KJV

King James Version · 1611

Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven;

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Then Jehovah rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from Jehovah out of heaven;

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

Then the Lord sent fire and flaming smoke raining down from heaven on Sodom and Gomorrah.

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

and Jehovah hath rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from Jehovah, from the heavens;

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

And the Lord rained upon Sodom and Gomorrha brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven.

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

And Jehovah rained on Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from Jehovah out of heaven,

Context

v.23The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot came unto Zoar.

v.24This passage

v.25and he overthrew those cities, and all the Plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Deuteronomy 29:23

    and that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and a burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which Jehovah overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:

  • Isaiah 1:9

    Except Jehovah of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, we should have been like unto Gomorrah.

  • Luke 17:28

    Likewise even as it came to pass in the days of Lot; they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;

  • Isaiah 13:19

    And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans’ pride, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.

  • Jeremiah 20:16

    And let that man be as the cities which Jehovah overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear a cry in the morning, and shouting at noontime;

  • Ezekiel 16:49

    Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom: pride, fulness of bread, and prosperous ease was in her and in her daughters; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.

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