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One of the five destroyed cities of the plain — invoked by Hosea as a warning to Israel
Dead SeaHistorically Verified
The exact site is unknown — traditionally linked to the southeastern Dead Sea region. Some scholars connect it with the Early Bronze Age destruction layers found at Bab edh-Dhra and Numeira.
One of the five cities of the plain near the Dead Sea, along with Sodom, Gomorrah, Zeboiim, and Bela (Zoar). Admah and its sister cities were defeated in the war of four kings against five recorded in Genesis 14, then later destroyed alongside Sodom and Gomorrah in the cataclysm of divine judgment under fire and sulfur (Genesis 19; Deuteronomy 29:23). The prophet Hosea later invokes Admah's fate as a warning to Israel — God's compassion holding Him back from treating Israel the same way, asking how He could ever make Israel like Admah (Hosea 11:8).
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