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Sodom

Named in 47 verses across 14 books, first in Genesis 10:19.

In the Bible

All 20 verses in Genesis, in Bible order. Text from the Berean Standard Bible; verse numbers follow the KJV.

Genesis

  • Genesis 10:19

    and the borders of Canaan extended from Sidon toward Gerar as far as Gaza, and then toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha.

  • 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 before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)

  • Genesis 13:12

    Abram lived in the land of Canaan, but Lot settled in the cities of the plain and pitched his tent toward Sodom.

  • Genesis 13:13

    But the men of Sodom were wicked, sinning greatly against the LORD.

  • Genesis 14:2

    went to war against Bera king of Sodom, Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar).

  • 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 Valley of Siddim

  • Genesis 14:10

    Now the Valley of Siddim was full of tar pits, and as the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, some men fell into the pits, but the survivors fled to the hill country.

  • Genesis 14:11

    The four kings seized all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah and all their food, and they went on their way.

  • Genesis 14:12

    They also carried off Abram’s nephew Lot and his possessions, since Lot was living in Sodom.

  • Genesis 14:17

    After Abram returned from defeating Chedorlaomer and the kings allied with him, the king of Sodom went out to meet him in the Valley of Shaveh (that is, the King’s Valley).

  • Genesis 14:21

    The king of Sodom said to Abram, “Give me the people, but take the goods for yourself.”

  • Genesis 14:22

    But Abram replied to the king of Sodom, “I have raised my hand to the LORD God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth,

  • Genesis 18:16

    When the men got up to leave, they looked out over Sodom, and Abraham walked along with them to see them off.

  • Genesis 18:20

    Then the LORD said, “The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great. Because their sin is so grievous,

  • Genesis 18:22

    And the two men turned away and went toward Sodom, but Abraham remained standing before the LORD.

  • Genesis 18:26

    So the LORD replied, “If I find fifty righteous ones within the city of Sodom, on their account I will spare the whole place.”

  • Genesis 19:1

    Now the two angels arrived at Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gateway of the city. When Lot saw them, he got up to meet them, bowed facedown,

  • Genesis 19:4

    Before they had gone to bed, all the men of the city of Sodom, both young and old, surrounded the house.

  • Genesis 19:24

    Then the LORD rained down sulfur and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah—from the LORD out of the heavens.

  • Genesis 19:28

    He looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah and all the land of the plain, and he saw the smoke rising from the land like smoke from a furnace.

Events here

Events the dataset sets at Sodom. Dates follow its Ussher–Jones reckoning (one of several traditional counts), not established history.

  1. c. 1920 BC
    Abraham and Lot SeparateGenesis 13:1–18
  2. c. 1897 BC
    Sodom DestroyedGenesis 18:20–19:29

Dictionary

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), as attached to this record by Theographic. Its geography and “modern” descriptions date from the 1890s. Easton wrote in 1897, and some of his views are now debated.

Read Easton’s entry

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). This city and its awful destruction are frequently alluded to in Scripture (Deut. 29:23; 32:32; Isa. 1:9, 10; 3:9; 13:19; Jer. 23:14; Ezek. 16:46-56; Zeph. 2:9; Matt. 10:15; Rom. 9:29; 2 Pet. 2:6, etc.). No trace of it or of the other cities of the plain has been discovered, so complete was their destruction. Just opposite the site of Zoar, on the south-west coast of the Dead Sea, is a range of low hills, forming a mass of mineral salt called Jebel Usdum, “the hill of Sodom.” It has been concluded, from this and from other considerations, that the cities of the plain stood at the southern end of the Dead Sea. Others, however, with much greater probability, contend that they stood at the northern end of the sea. [in 1897].

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