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Place

Sodom

plain city

City of the plain judged in Genesis and remembered later as a warning.

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City of the plain on the well-watered valley where settles after separating from . Carried off in 's raid and rescued by Abraham, it later becomes the site of the visit of two angels and the attempted assault on them by the men of the city. The Lord rains down brimstone and fire on Sodom and , reducing them to ash, and the prophets, , 2 , and continue to invoke it as the paradigm of catastrophic judgment on wickedness.

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