Jeremiah 49:18Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
As Sodom was overthrown and Gomorrha, and the neighbours thereof, saith the Lord: there shall not a man dwell there, and there shall no son of man inhabit it.
כְּֽמַהְפֵּכַ֞ת סְדֹ֧ם וַעֲמֹרָ֛ה וּשְׁכֵנֶ֖יהָ אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֑ה לֹֽא־יֵשֵׁ֥ב שָׁם֙ אִ֔ישׁ וְלֹֽא־יָג֥וּר בָּ֖הּ בֶּן־אָדָֽם׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Jer 49:33And Asor shall be a habitation for dragons, desolate for ever: no man shall abide there, nor son of man inhabit it.
- Deut 29:23Burning it with brimstone, and the heat of salt, so that it cannot be sown any more, nor any green thing grow therein, after the example of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrha, Adama and Seboim, which the Lord destroyed in his wrath and indignation:
- Zeph 2:9Therefore as I live, saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel, Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrha, the dryness of thorns, and heaps of salt, and a desert even for ever: the remnant of my people shall make a spoil of them, and the residue of my nation shall possess them.
- Gen 19:24And the Lord rained upon Sodom and Gomorrha brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven.
- Gen 19:25And he destroyed these cities, and all the country about, all the inhabitants of the cities, and all things that spring from the earth.
- Amos 4:11I destroyed some of you, as God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrha, and you were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet you returned not to me, saith the Lord.
- Job 18:15Let the companions of him that is not, dwell in his tabernacle, let brimstone be sprinkled in his tent.
- Job 18:18He shall drive him out of light into darkness, and shall remove him out of the world.