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Sodom City
About Sodom
A city of the Jordan plain that Lot chose for its well-watered land, destroyed with Gomorrah by fire from heaven. Abraham had pleaded for it, and the Lord agreed to spare it for ten righteous men who were never found. Its site is disputed: this marker follows the southern tradition, on the eastern escarpment of the Dead Sea.
Events at Sodom
History of Sodom
Old Testament~2067 BC
The Lord tells Abraham the outcry against Sodom is great; Abraham pleads, and the city is to be spared for ten righteous men
Old Testament~2067 BC
Two angels come at evening; Lot takes them in, and the men of the city surround the house
Old Testament~2067 BC
At sunrise Lot reaches Zoar, and fire falls on Sodom and Gomorrah; his wife looks back
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Locations Related to Sodom
Biblical Significance of Sodom
Sodom is remembered for how it ended, but Genesis spends more words on the conversation before it. Abraham bargains the Lord down from fifty righteous men to ten, and the Lord agrees each time; the ten were never found. The account is as much about intercession as about judgement, and about a city chosen for its water by a man who could see only the land. Ezekiel, looking back, named its guilt as pride, abundance of bread, and careless ease, and the hand it did not hold out to the poor.
