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Genesis 19:25

and he overthrew The word used is the one regularly employed elsewhere in the O.T. where the overthrow of the cities is mentioned. Like the word mabbulfor the Flood, so this word, "overthrow" (mahpêkah, "overturning"), used here and in Genesis 19:29, became the technical term for this catastrophe. It suggests an earthquake.

"The Korán frequently refers to Sodom and Gomorrah by the title of al mutafikât-the overturned" (Sur. ix. 71, liii. 54, lxix. 9)" (Cheyne).

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  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

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  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

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  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

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  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

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