The destruction of the Cities of the Plain—Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim—is proverbial. The events described in Genesis 19 are so well known that anyone with minimal knowledge of the Bible is familiar with the dreadful destruction by fire and brimstone that God brought on these “sin cities.” Paintings have been made of Sodom’s overthrow, books written, and movies made.展开