The Untold Truth Of Sodom And Gomorrah

Sodom and Gomorrah and their fiery fate crop up in the Book of Genesis in the Old Testament, in the Torah, and in the Quran. But whatever you’ve heard about Sodom and Gomorrah, you’re probably getting things a bit confused. Here’s the truth about Sodom and Gomorrah. Sodom and Gomorrah are like Batman and Robin, you’re so used to hearing them together that one without the other sounds weird. Yet this cozy partnership is a little misleading, because Sodom and Gomorrah were actually part of a larger group of civilization called the Cities of the Plain, a collection of five great cities that sat along the Jordan River in Biblical times. The three forgotten cities aren’t just background details. Although they appear in the story of Lot far less than Sodom or Gomorrah, they have their own names and everything. Deuteronomy identifies two of the other cities as Admah and Zeboim, while Genesis 19:23 identifies the final city as Zoar.