The LORD rains down burning sulfur on Sodom and Gomorrah — from the LORD out of the heavens. The double reference to the LORD — on earth and from heaven — may be a hint at the trinitarian complexity the text does not fully develop but gestures toward. The judgment is specific, targeted, and total. Deuteronomy 29:23 will use Sodom and Gomorrah as the standard byword for divine judgment; Isaiah 1:9 and Jeremiah 49:18 invoke the same comparison. Jesus references Sodom in Matthew 10:15 as the standard of judgment — more tolerable for Sodom on the day of judgment than for those who reject the gospel. The application: the judgment of Sodom is not a distant archaic event but the standing biblical illustration of what comprehensive, willful, celebrated wickedness ultimately receives.

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