“Behold, this was the sin of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters (outlying cities) had arrogance, abundant food, and careless ease, but she did not help the poor and needy. They were haughty and committed repulsive acts before Me; therefore I removed them when I saw it.” (Ezekial 16: 49&50, AMP)
This blog post gives a thoughtful overview of the situation that led to Sodom’s destruction.
“The story recounted in Genesis includes nothing about help or food being denied to the poor and needy, so we must look elsewhere to know what Ezekiel is talking about here. A Jewish source outside the Bible (Midrash Pirkei Eliezer) tells us that Ezekiel is referencing an incident where a young girl, the daughter of Lot, gave a bucket of grain to another girl who was starving. Feeding someone who couldn’t feed herself was against the law in Sodom, and the citizens attempted to put the generous young woman to death. When you combine this with our already mentioned story from Genesis about the people of Sodom assaulting the guests of Abraham and, what’s more, claiming that they had the right to assault them simply because they were strangers, you get the picture of a profoundly corrupt society. According to this midrash, it is through the cries of Lot’s daughter against the implementation of a cruel law punishing an act of justice towards the poor that God is stirred into action.”
Read more here: https://wherepeteris.com/flawed-justice-in-sodom-and-gomorrah/
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