Deuteronomy 29:23

And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, etc.; rather, sulfur and salt , a burning the whole land thereof , it shall not be sown , etc. The words "sulfur," etc; are in apposition to the "plagues and sicknesses" of Deuteronomy 29:22 , and thus so far depend on the "see." The description here is taken from the country around the Dead Sea, to which there is an express allusion in the close of the verse (cf. Genesis 19:23 , etc.). As this country, which before had been as the garden of the Lord, became, when the wrath of God was poured upon it, utterly desolate and waste; so should it be with the land of Israel when the plagues and sicknesses threatened were laid on it by the Lord.