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[8] [9] This is 200 years earlier than the current assumed date for the destruction of Sodom. [10] Excavations indicate Numeira was a 0.5-hectare (1.2-acre) walled settlement, though it may have been twice the size we see today. [11] Though only 30% of the site was excavated (c. 1500 m 2) between 1979 and 1983. [12]
Sodom and Gomorrah, or the "cities of the plain", have been used historically and in modern discourse as metaphors for homosexuality, and are the origin of the English words sodomite, a pejorative term for male homosexuals, "sod", a British vulgar slang term for male homosexuals, and sodomy, which is used in a legal context under the label ...
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According to the Bible, Admah (Heb. אַדְמָה) was one of the five cities of the Vale of Siddim. [1] It was destroyed along with Sodom and Gomorrah. [2] It is supposed by William F. Albright to be the same as the "Adam" of Joshua 3:16. [3]
The Philistine Pentapolis: Gaza, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Ekron, and Gath, all combined to make Philistia.; In the biblical Holy Land, Genesis 14 describes the region where five cities—Sodom, Gomorrah, Zoara, Admah and Zeboim—united to resist the invasion of Chedorlaomer, and of which four were shortly after destroyed.
Saint Remigius: " Sodom and Gomorrah are especially mentioned, to show that those sins which are against nature are particularly hateful to God, for which the world was drowned with the waters of the deluge, four towns were overthrown, and the world is daily afflicted with manifold evils."
The reference to Sodom in verse 13 suggests that Lot made a bad choice. [4] The narrator uses Lot's choice of land near Sodom as a way of foreshadowing Lot's role in the Battle of Siddim, in which Lot is taken captive in battle, and the role of Lot in the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. [5] Lot pitches his tents near Sodom according to ...