He looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and looked, and saw that the smoke of the land went up as the smoke of a furnace.
⛓ 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.
Allusion2
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'The smoke of the land went up like the smoke of a furnace' — behind 'the smoke of their torment goes up.' Verbal parallel of rising smoke of judgment (LXX anebainen... kapnos).
High confidenceSmoke rising from the pit 'like the smoke from a burning furnace' (9:2) echoes Abraham seeing Sodom's destruction, 'the smoke of the land went up like the smoke of a furnace' (LXX hosei atmis kaminou). Shared furnace-smoke simile of cataclysmic judgment; the abyss takes on Sodom-like overtones.
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Smoke of Sodom 'going up like the smoke of a furnace' - the foundational rising-smoke-of-judgment image behind Rev 19:3, reinforcing Isa 34. Babylon = anti-city judged like Sodom.
Medium confidence