25And 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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A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
All these were joined together in the vale of Siddim, which is the salt sea.
And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 24-25)Then , when Lot had got safely into Zoar, then this ruin came; for good men are taken away from the evil to come. Then , when the sun had risen bright and clear, promising a fair day, then this storm arose, to show that it was not from natural causes. Concerning this destruction observe, 1. God was the immediate author of it. It was destruction from the Almighty: The Lord rained—from the Lord (Gen…
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