Verse 24. "Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven."
Verse 25. "And he overthrew those cities, and all the cities of the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground."
It was a complete destruction of all living things in that locality; and Lot "dwell in a cave, he and his two daughters."
And the daughters were convinced that they were the
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last of the human race left alive on the face of the earth, notwithstanding the fact that the Lord had promised (chap. iii, verse 21), "I will not overthrow this city," Zoar; but Zoar evidently was overthrown. And the daughters, rather than see the human race perish, committed incest with their father, and became the mothers of two great and extensive tribes or races of men, the Moabites and the Ammonites.
This, also, looks very much as if they were indeed repeopling an empty and desolated world..
To recapitulate, we have here, in due chronological order:
1. The creation of the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them.
2. The creation of the plants, animals, and man.