What does the Bible say about Sodom?
Does the word appear in the Bible?
The word "Sodom" appears in the Bible.
Editorial note: this entry is in review and will be published in full shortly. The full version will document Genesis 18-19, the Ezekiel 16:49-50 passage, and the New Testament references (Matthew 10, Jude 1, 2 Peter 2).
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Ezekiel 16:49-50
Now this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters had pride, plenty of food, and comfortable security, but she did not help the poor and needy. Thus they were haughty and committed abominations before Me. Therefore I removed them, as you have seen.
Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw good.
Editorial note: this entry is in review and will be published in full shortly.
Content in review — publishing shortly.
This entry is being prepared in two passes. The full version will document the Genesis 18–19 narrative, the Ezekiel 16:49–50 internal-biblical commentary, and the New Testament references (Matthew 10:14–15, Jude 1:7, 2 Peter 2:6–8) with the standard scholarly notes on the Hebrew and Greek vocabulary.
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