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Places of the Bible

Sodom

City

What happened here

A dot is a moment; a bar is something that lasted, drawn to its length.

  • Abraham and Lot Separate · 1919 BC
  • Sodom Destroyed · 1896 BC

Where the name appears

Events told in passages that name Sodom, 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.

  • Prophecies of Amos · 787 BC · 1 verse
  • Prophecies of Isaiah · 758 BC · 4 verses
  • Prophecies of Jeremiah · 627 BC · 3 verses
  • Prophecies of Zephaniah · 609 BC · 1 verse
  • Prophecies of Ezekiel · 592 BC · 6 verses
  • Woe to Chorazin and Bethsaida · 28 AD · 2 verses
  • 3rd Tour of Galilee · 29 AD · 1 verse
  • 70 Sent Out · 29 AD · 1 verse
  • Discourse on the Kingdom and Other Parables · 30 AD · 1 verse

Easton’s Bible Dictionary

Burning; the walled, a city in the vale of Siddim (Gen. 13:10; 14:1-16). The wickedness of its inhabitants brought down upon it fire from heaven, by which it was destroyed (18:16-33; 19:1-29; Deut. 23:17). This city and its awful destruction are frequently alluded to in Scripture (Deut. 29:23; 32:32; Isa. 1:9, 10; 3:9; 13:19; Jer. 23:14; Ezek. 16:46-56; Zeph. 2:9; Matt. 10:15; Rom. 9:29; 2 Pet. 2:6, etc.). No trace of it or of the other cities of the plain has been discovered, so complete was their destruction. Just opposite the site of Zoar, on the south-west coast of the Dead Sea, is a range of low hills, forming a mass of mineral salt called Jebel Usdum, “the hill of Sodom.” It has been concluded, from this and from other considerations, that the cities of the plain stood at the southern end of the Dead Sea. Others, however, with much greater probability, contend that they stood at the northern end of the sea. [in 1897].

From M. G. Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1893), in the public domain.

Named in 47 verses

Genesis
10:19, 13:10, 13:12, 13:13, 14:2, 14:8, 14:10, 14:11, 14:12, 14:17, 14:21, 14:22, 18:16, 18:20, 18:22, 18:26, 19:1, 19:4, 19:24, 19:28
Deuteronomy
29:23, 32:32
Isaiah
1:9, 1:10, 3:9, 13:19
Jeremiah
23:14, 49:18, 50:40
Lamentations
4:6
Ezekiel
16:46, 16:48, 16:49, 16:53, 16:55, 16:56
Amos
4:11
Zephaniah
2:9
Matthew
10:15, 11:23, 11:24
Luke
10:12, 17:29
Romans
9:29
2 Peter
2:6
Jude
1:7
Revelation
11:8

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.