The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah

(Luke 17:20–37)

Then the LORD rained down sulfur and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah — from the LORD out of the heavens. 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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But [Lot’s] wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.

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Early the next morning, Abraham got up and returned to the place where he had stood before the LORD. 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.

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So when God destroyed the cities of the plain, He remembered Abraham, and He brought Lot out of the catastrophe that destroyed the cities where [he] had lived

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