Sodom full
kedness of the city became proverbial. The sin of sodomy was an offense against nature frequently connected with idolatrous practices (see Rawlinson, History of Phoenicia). See SODOMITE.
Where is Sodom in the Bible?
Sodom was a city located in the plain south of the Dead Sea in ancient Canaan, now submerged beneath the waters of the Dead Sea. The Bible associates Sodom with the patriarch Abraham and his nephew Lot, who lived there before the city's destruction. According to Genesis 19:24-25, God destroyed Sodom and its sister city Gomorrah because of their grave sins and wickedness. The fate of Sodom became a biblical warning against sin and rejection of God's word, referenced throughout the New Testament as a cautionary example. The name is still preserved in the modern geographic feature Jebel Usdum (Mount Sodom) on the Dead Sea's western shore.
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Sodom
ISBE 1915 (Public Domain)kedness of the city became proverbial. The sin of sodomy was an offense against nature frequently connected with idolatrous practices (see Rawlinson, History of Phoenicia). See SODOMITE. The fate of Sodom and Gomorrah is used as a warning to those who reject the gospel (Mt 10:15; 11:24; 2Pe 2:6; Jude 1:7). The word is used in a typical sense in Re 11:8. Sodom was probably located in plain South of the Dead Sea, now covered with water. The name is still preserved in Jebel Usdum (Mt. Sodom).
See ARABAH; CITIES OF THE PLAIN; DEAD SEA.
Literature
Dillmann. Genesis, 111 f; Robinson, BR, II, 187 ff; G. A. Smith, HGHL, 505 ff; Blanckenhorn, ZDPV, XIX, 1896, 53 ff; Baedeker-Socin, Palestine, 143; Buhl, GAP, 117, 271, 274.
George Frederick Wright
(gephen cedhom):
"For their vine is of the vine of Sodom,
And of the fields of Gomorrah
Their grapes are grapes of gall,
Their clusters are bitter" (De 3