Then Yahweh rained on Sodom and on Gomorrah sulfur and fire from Yahweh out of the sky. He overthrew those cities, all the plain, all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew on the ground.
⛓ Read Genesis 19 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.
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A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'Turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them… an example' draws directly on the destruction of the cities by fire and sulfur as a paradigm of judgment.
High confidenceSodom's destruction by fire and sulfur rained from heaven, with Lot going out on the day of doom, is named directly ('the days of Lot'). The explicit citation of fire-and-brimstone judgment gives maximal Volume and Coherence as the paired type to Noah.
High confidenceThe destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah is explicitly named by Jesus as the benchmark of judgment for towns that reject the messengers. This is a direct invocation of the OT narrative as the measure of eschatological accountability. High confidence given the named cities.
High confidence'Sodom and Gomorrah' (10:15) names the archetypal city of judgment whose destruction by fire becomes the proverbial worst-case fate. Jesus says it will be 'more tolerable' for them than for a town that rejects the apostles — a direct invocation of the Genesis paradigm of inhospitality and overthrow.
High confidenceSodom as the type-city of wickedness destroyed by God; 'the great city... spiritually called Sodom' names the persecuting city by this archetype. Strong on the figural naming convention Rev signals with 'spiritually (pneumatikos).'
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