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Luke 17:29
But on the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Jesus speaks to his disciples during the journey to Jerusalem, using the historical destruction of Sodom to frame the imminent revelation of the Son of Man.
The words — ἔβρεξεν (ebrexen) means “it rained,” and ἡμέρᾳ (hēmera) means “day,” anchoring the event to a specific temporal moment of divine action.
The thread — This judgment motif echoes Jeremiah 50:40 and Zephaniah 2:9, where Sodom serves as the benchmark for God’s sudden overthrow of rebellious cities, and resurfaces in Revelation 11:8 as a figurative title for a place of crucifixion and divine opposition.
Why it lands — The text states that ordinary routines of eating, drinking, and building precede sudden destruction, demanding the reader recognize that daily normalcy does not guarantee safety from the coming revelation of the Son of Man.
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The Greek words
King James Version
But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.
Cross-references
- Revelation 11:8 Their bodies will lie in the street of the great city—figuratively called Sodom and Egypt—where their Lord was also crucified.
- Jeremiah 50:40 As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah along with their neighbors,” declares the LORD, “no one will dwell there; no man will abide there.
- Zephaniah 2:9 Therefore, as surely as I live,” declares the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, “surely Moab will be like Sodom and the Ammonites like Gomorrah—a place of weeds and salt pits, a perpetual wasteland. The remnant of My people will plunder them; the remainder of My nation will dispossess them.”
- 2 Peter 2:6 if He condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction, reducing them to ashes as an example of what is coming on the ungodly;
- Jude 1:7 In like manner, Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, who indulged in sexual immorality and pursued strange flesh, are on display as an example of those who sustain the punishment of eternal fire.
- Deuteronomy 29:23 All its soil will be a burning waste of sulfur and salt, unsown and unproductive, with no plant growing on it, just like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in His fierce anger.
- Isaiah 13:19 And Babylon, the jewel of the kingdoms, the glory of the pride of the Chaldeans, will be overthrown by God like Sodom and Gomorrah.
- Matthew 11:23 And you, Capernaum, will you be lifted up to heaven? No, you will be brought down to Hades! For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Sodom, it would have remained to this day.
- Isaiah 1:9 Unless the LORD of Hosts had left us a few survivors, we would have become like Sodom, we would have resembled Gomorrah.
- Hosea 11:8 How could I give you up, O Ephraim? How could I surrender you, O Israel? How could I make you like Admah? How could I treat you like Zeboiim? My heart is turned within Me; My compassion is stirred!