I've actually always wanted to know what they were doing in Gomorrah. I mean the bible is strangely reticent on the subject which implies it must have been disgraceful...
You're leaving out two other cities that were destroyed in that rain of fire--Admah and Zeboim (Deut 29:23). Nobody remembers them, though.
I can't find any serious discussion of what the people of Gomorrah did. Or the people of Admah or Zeboim, either. But there is a part of Isaiah where he addresses the kings of Israel as the leaders of Sodom and the leaders of Gomorrah, and tells them what they need to do to improve:
Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
So I guess the original cities of the plains were doing a lot of cruel and unjust things to people who couldn't fight back--the oppressed, the orphaned, the widowed and the strangers.
I guess we didn't get a sin called Gomorrahy because we already have a word for cruelty.
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Date: 2010-03-20 01:42 pm (UTC)I can't find any serious discussion of what the people of Gomorrah did. Or the people of Admah or Zeboim, either. But there is a part of Isaiah where he addresses the kings of Israel as the leaders of Sodom and the leaders of Gomorrah, and tells them what they need to do to improve:
Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
So I guess the original cities of the plains were doing a lot of cruel and unjust things to people who couldn't fight back--the oppressed, the orphaned, the widowed and the strangers.
I guess we didn't get a sin called Gomorrahy because we already have a word for cruelty.
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