The Book of Genesis describes a group of five cities located on a fertile plain in the Arabah Valley of Canaan: Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, Zeboiim, and Bela (Zoar). Two pericopes in Genesis chapters 14 and 19 describe two calamities that befell those cities.
The Battle of the Five Kings
First, Abraham’s nephew Lot, seeing the lush green plain and the wealth…
