and that all of its land is sulfur, salt, and burning, that it is not sown, doesn’t produce, nor does any grass grow in it, like the overthrow of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, which Yahweh overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath;
⛓ Read Deuteronomy 29 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Echo4
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
The phrase 'the cities around them' suffering judgment echoes Deuteronomy's reference to the overthrow of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, a brimstone-and-fire desolation held up as a warning. The wider Pentateuchal memory of the destroyed plain-cities informs Jude's 'surrounding cities.'
Medium confidence‘Whose end is to be burned’ (v. 8) faintly recalls the Deuteronomic curse of a barren, burning land that ‘doesn't produce.’ Verbal volume is low (the shared note is land that yields nothing and is consigned to burning), but the covenant blessing/curse frame coheres with the field imagery; flagged contested.
Low confidenceThe covenant curse describes the land as 'brimstone and salt... like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah,' showing Sodom's fire-and-sulfur as the standard type of sudden total ruin Luke is invoking. Adds Recurrence; faint as an independent source.
Low confidenceSodom and Gomorrah's overthrow as covenant-curse paradigm reinforces 'the land of Sodom' as judgment shorthand.
Low confidence