Sodom

Sodom was one of the cities of the plain near the Dead Sea, condemned in Genesis for wickedness and destroyed by fire from heaven along with Gomorrah, an event the rest of Scripture repeatedly cites as a byword for divine judgment. No certain trace of the city has survived, though some archaeologists point to Early Bronze Age ruins at sites like Bab edh-Dhra and Numeira near the Dead Sea's southern shore as candidates for the destroyed cities, an identification that remains debated. Jesus himself invoked Sodom's fate as a warning more severe than anything faced by towns that rejected his disciples.