And the neighbouring cities, Admah and Zeboim, as appears from Deuteronomy 29:23 Jeremiah 49:18 Hosea 11:8. Brimstone is added to the fire, either to convey and carry down the fire, which in itself is light and apt to ascend; or to increase it, Isaiah 30:33; or to represent the noisomeness of their lusts. From the Lord, i.e. from himself; the noun put for the pronoun, as Genesis 1:27 2 Chronicles 7:2. But here it is emphatically so expressed, either,
1. To signify that it proceeded not from natural causes, but from the immediate hand of God. Or,
2. To note the plurality of persons in the Godhead, God the Son, who now appeared upon the earth, rained from God his Father in heaven, both concurring in this act, as indeed all outward actions are common to all the persons of the Trinity.