IDuteronomi 29:23

Izhibhalo Ezingcwele

23 isulfure netyuwa, litshile lonke ilizwe lakhona, lingahlwayelwa, lingahlumi nto, lingaphumi tyani; linjengokubhukuqwa kweSodom neGomora, iAdama neTsebhoyim, awazibhukuqayo uYehova ngomsindo wakhe nangobushushu bakhe.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

brimstone: Job 18:15, Isaiah 34:9, Luke 17:29, Revelation 19:20

salt: Judges 9:45, Psalms 107:34, Jeremiah 17:6, Ezekiel 47:11, Zephaniah 2:9, Luke 14:34, Luke 14:35

like the: Genesis 14:2, Genesis 19:24, Genesis 19:25, Jeremiah 20:16, Hosea 11:8, Hosea 11:9, Amos 4:11

Reciprocal: Leviticus 26:32 - And I 2 Kings 22:13 - great 2 Kings 22:19 - a desolation Job 18:20 - astonied Job 39:6 - barren land Psalms 18:8 - went Isaiah 1:9 - we should Isaiah 5:6 - I will lay Isaiah 13:19 - when God overthrew Isaiah 24:3 - shall Jeremiah 4:26 - the fruitful Jeremiah 14:4 - the ground Jeremiah 15:14 - a fire Jeremiah 18:16 - make Jeremiah 22:8 - General Jeremiah 49:18 - in the Jeremiah 50:40 - General Ezekiel 5:8 - in the Ezekiel 16:46 - thy younger sister Ezekiel 16:50 - therefore Ezekiel 36:30 - reproach Ezekiel 36:34 - General Zechariah 8:13 - a curse 2 Peter 2:6 - turning Revelation 14:10 - be Revelation 18:9 - the smoke

Gill's Notes on the Bible

[And that] the whole land thereof [is] brimstone and salt,

[and] burning,.... That is, is become exceeding barren, as all such land is where there are sulphureous mines, or salt pits, or burning mountains; not that this would be, or has been the case of the land of Judea in a strict literal sense; only these are expressions made use of to show the barrenness of it, which is its case at this day, not through the nature of its soil being changed, but through the slothfulness of the inhabitants of it; to which time it better agrees than to the time of its falling into the hands of the Chaldeans, who left men in it for husbandmen and vinedressers. Aben Ezra understands this as a prayer to God, that the land might be burnt up; that is, for the sins of the people:

[that] it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein; not being sown, it would bear and produce no corn for men; and not being manured, no grass would spring up for the cattle: and so would be

like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, of Admah and Zeboim; which indeed are, strictly speaking, become a sulphurous and bituminous lake, called the salt sea, and the lake Asphaltites, and where no green grass or corn, or any kind of fruit grow: which the Lord overthrew in his anger and in his wrath the Targum of Jonathan is,

"which the Word of the Lord overthrew;''

and it was Jehovah, the Word, or Son of God, who rained, from Jehovah the Father, out of heaven, fire and brimstone on Sodom and Gomorrah, and the rest of the cities; :-, in which chapter is the history of this fatal overthrow.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The description is borrowed from the local features of the Dead Sea and its vicinity. The towns of the vale of Siddim were fertile and well watered (compare Genesis 13:10) until devastated by the wrath of God Genesis 19:24-25. The ruin of Israel and its land should be of the like sort (compare Leviticus 26:31-32; Psalms 107:34; Zephaniah 2:9). The desolate state of Palestine at present, and the traces of former fertility and prosperity, are attested by every traveler.