Genesis 19:24

Overview - Genesis 19
Lot entertains two angels.
The vicious Sodomites are smitten with blindness.
12 Lot is warned, and in vain warns his sons-in-law.
15 He is directed to flee with his family to the mountains, but obtains leave to go into Zoar.
24 Sodom and Gomorrah are destroyed.
26 Lot's wife becomes a pillar of salt.
29 Lot dwells in a cave.
31 The incestuous origin of Moab and Ammon.
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Genesis 19:24  (King James Version)
Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven;
 


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