KJV King James Version
And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Genesis 19:25
And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
Thus He destroyed these cities and the entire plain, including all the inhabitants of the cities and everything that grew on the ground.
WEB World English Bible
He overthrew those cities, all the plain, all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew on the ground.
ASV American Standard Version
and he overthrew those cities, and all the Plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
and He overthroweth these cities, and all the circuit, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which is shooting up from the ground.
Surrounding context — Genesis 19
22 Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do any thing till thou be come thither. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.
23 The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar.
24 Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven;
25 And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.
26 But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.
27 And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the LORD:
28 And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
וַֽיַּהֲפֹךְ֙H2015 · ha.phakhto overturnאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]הֶעָרִ֣יםH5892 · irexcitementהָאֵ֔לH411 · eltheseוְאֵ֖תH853 · et[Obj.]כָּל־H3605 · kolallהַכִּכָּ֑רH3603 · kik.karPlain (of Jericho)וְאֵת֙H853 · et[Obj.]כָּל־H3605 · kolallיֹשְׁבֵ֣יH3427 · ya.shavto dwellהֶעָרִ֔יםH5892 · irexcitementוְצֶ֖מַחH6780 · tse.machbranchהָאֲדָמָֽה׃H127 · a.da.mahland: soil
Cross-references
Psalm 107:34A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.Genesis 14:3All these were joined together in the vale of Siddim, which is the salt sea.Genesis 13:10And 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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