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Genesis 13:10, 13
Lot looked out and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan, all the way to Zoar, was well watered like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt. (This was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.) . . .

Genesis 19:25
Thus He destroyed these cities and the entire plain, including all the inhabitants of the cities and everything that grew on the ground.

Deuteronomy 29:23-28
All its soil will be a burning waste of brimstone and salt, unsown and unproductive, with no plant growing on it, just like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in His fierce anger. . . .

Isaiah 32:13-15
and for the land of my people, overgrown with thorns and briers--even for every house of merriment in this city of revelry. . . .

barrenness.

Genesis 14:3
The latter five came as allies to the Valley of Siddim (that is, the Salt Sea).

Ezekiel 47:11
But the swamps and marshes will not become fresh; they will be left for salt.