It was in this district that the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah were situated.
The LORD sent a rain of burning sulfur down from the sky on Sodom and Gomorrah and destroyed those cities.
The most striking coincidence is Jebel Usdum, by some equated with confidence to Sodom.
The city that rejects them shall have a less lenient judgment than Sodom; Tyre and Sidon shall be better off than cities like Chorazin and Bethsaida which have seen His miracles; Capernaum, favoured above all, shall sink to the deepest depth.
They threatened, more than once, to march upon and destroy Stockholm, because the Reformers had made of it " a spiritual Sodom."