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Brimstone
American Tract Society Bible Dictionary
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A mineral substance, highly inflammable, and burning with a suffocating smell. Sodom and the other cities of the plain were destroyed "by brimstone and fire," Genesis 19:24; and this awful catastrophe is often used in Scripture, as an emblem of temporal and eternal judgments of God upon the wicked, Job 18:15; Psalm 11:6; Isaiah 30:33; 34:9; Revelation 21:8 .
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These files are public domain and are a derivative of the topics are from American Tract Society Bible Dictionary published in 1859.
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Rand, W. W. Entry for 'Brimstone'. American Tract Society Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ats/b/brimstone.html. 1859.
Rand, W. W. Entry for 'Brimstone'. American Tract Society Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ats/b/brimstone.html. 1859.
