So we delivered him and his family, all except an old woman who lingered behind. The rest we destroyed utterly. His people came rushing towards him and they had been long in the habit of practicing abominations. Indeed you know quite well what we want'. By no means shall they reach you.
Morning is their appointed time.
Is not the morning near'. When Our decree issued we turned the cities upside down, and rained down on them brimstones hard as baked clay, spread layer on layer, marked from your Lord. Let us see now how the Bible depicts this incident. In Genesis 18, Abraham intercedes for Sodom and the Lord accepts his intercession. Then God destroys Sodom and Gomorrah as in Genesis 19.