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23 Lot reached Zoar at the time when the sun was rising that morning.

24 Then the Lord poured sulphur that was on fire down on Sodom and Gomorrah. It fell from the sky like rain.[a] 25 In that way God destroyed those cities and everything in the valley. He killed all the people who lived in those cities. And he killed all the plants that grew on the land.

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  1. 19:24 God used hot sulphur to destroy the cities. Sulphur is yellow. It burns quickly with a lot of heat. But when it gets cold, it becomes like stone. Hot sulphur covered the cities and the people in them. It burnt them. It became like stone over everything in the city.

23 By the time Lot reached Zoar,(A) the sun had risen over the land. 24 Then the Lord rained down burning sulfur(B) on Sodom and Gomorrah(C)—from the Lord out of the heavens.(D) 25 Thus he overthrew those cities(E) and the entire plain,(F) destroying all those living in the cities—and also the vegetation in the land.(G)

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