Sodom was city where Abraham’s nephew Lot settled. It was one of the most ancient cities of Syria.
The entire plains of the Sodom area was included 5 cities in all. Sodom, the chief of the five confederate cities, built around the inland sea; the four others were Gomorrah, Admah, Zeboim and Zoar.
The origin of the name Sodom is linked to an old root meaning ‘abundance’ especially of water.
This area is now the Dead Sea area.
The original cities are under the sea or closely around it.
Their inhabitants seem to have been of Canaanitish blood; but they were horribly corrupt, given over to impiety, to iniquity of every kind and to the most infamous vices.
In 1897 BC Sodom and other city was destroyed, Lot and his two daughters escape to cave in the hills.
Ancient city of Sodom
