Editing Fire and brimstone (section)

==References in the Old Testament ==
The [[Old Testament]] uses the phrase "fire and brimstone" in the context of divine punishment and purification. In [[Book of Genesis|Genesis]] 19, [[God]] destroys [[Sodom and Gomorrah]] with a rain of fire and brimstone ({{Langx|he|גׇּפְרִ֣ית וָאֵ֑שׁ}}), and in [[Deuteronomy]] 29, the Israelites are warned that the same punishment would fall upon them should they abandon their covenant with God. Elsewhere, divine judgments involving fire and sulfur are prophesied against [[Assyria]] ([[Book of Isaiah|Isaiah]] 30), [[Edom]] (Isaiah 34), [[Gog and Magog|Gog]] ([[Book of Ezekiel|Ezekiel]] 38), and all the wicked ([[Psalm 11]]).

The breath of God, in Isaiah 30:33, is compared to brimstone: "The breath of [[Yahweh]], like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it."

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!colspan="2"|English translations of verses mentioning brimstone in the Tanakh (1917 JPS)
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|Genesis 19:24
|Then the LORD caused to rain upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven;
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|Deuteronomy 29:23
|...and that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and a burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord overthrew in His anger, and in His wrath;
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|Isaiah 30:33
|For a hearth is ordered of old;
Yea, for the king it is prepared,
Deep and large;
The pile thereof is fire and much wood;
The breath of the Lord, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it.
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|Isaiah 34:9
|And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch,
And the dust thereof into brimstone,
And the land thereof shall become burning pitch.
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|Ezekiel 38:22
|And I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood; and I will cause to rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many peoples that are with him, an overflowing shower, and great hailstones fire, and brimstone.
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|Psalm 11:6
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Upon the wicked He will cause to rain coals;
Fire and brimstone and burning wind shall be the portion of their cup.
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|Job 18:15
|There shall dwell in his tent that which is none of his;
Brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.
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