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Genesis 19:24

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the Lord: Deuteronomy 29:23; Job 18:15; Psalms 11:6; Isaiah 1:9, Isaiah 13:19; Jeremiah 20:16, Jeremiah 49:18, Jeremiah 50:40; Lamentations 4:6; Ezekiel 16:49-50; Hosea 11:8; Amos 4:11; Zephaniah 2:9; Matthew 11:23-24; Luke 17:28-29; 2 Peter 2:6; Jude 1:7

brimstone: The word rendered "brimstone," (q.d. brennestone, or brinnestone, id est burning-stone), is always rendered by the LXX "sulphur," and seems to denote a meteorous inflammable matter.

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