Places of the Bible
Gomorrah
City
What happened here
- Sodom Destroyed · 1896 BC
Where the name appears
Events told in passages that name Gomorrah, and how many of their verses do. That is not the same as saying they happened here: a place can be named as a landmark, as somewhere being travelled to, or as the subject of a prophecy.
A dot is a moment; a bar is something that lasted, drawn to its length. The fainter the mark, the fewer verses name the place.
- Abraham and Lot Separate · 1919 BC · 1 verse
- Prophecies of Amos · 787 BC · 1 verse
- Prophecies of Isaiah · 758 BC · 3 verses
- Prophecies of Jeremiah · 627 BC · 3 verses
- Prophecies of Zephaniah · 609 BC · 1 verse
- 3rd Tour of Galilee · 29 AD · 1 verse
Easton’s Bible Dictionary
Submersion, one of the five cities of the plain of Siddim (q.v.) which were destroyed by fire (Gen. 10:19; 13:10; 19:24, 28). These cities probably stood close together, and were near the northern extremity of what is now the Dead Sea. This city is always mentioned next after Sodom, both of which were types of impiety and wickedness (Gen. 18:20; Rom. 9:29). Their destruction is mentioned as an “ensample unto those that after should live ungodly” (2 Pet. 2:6; Jude 1:4-7). Their wickedness became proverbial (Deut. 32:32; Isa. 1:9, 10; Jer. 23:14). But that wickedness may be exceeded (Matt. 10:15; Mark 6:11).
From M. G. Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1893), in the public domain.
Named in 23 verses
- Genesis
- 10:19, 13:10, 14:2, 14:8, 14:10, 14:11, 18:20, 19:24, 19:28
- Deuteronomy
- 29:23, 32:32
- Isaiah
- 1:9, 1:10, 13:19
- Jeremiah
- 23:14, 49:18, 50:40
- Amos
- 4:11
- Zephaniah
- 2:9
- Matthew
- 10:15
- Romans
- 9:29
- 2 Peter
- 2:6
- Jude
- 1:7
The place, its people and its events come from Theographic, a knowledge graph of the Bible by Robert Rouse, used and shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.