Sodom appears in the Book of Mormon only within Nephi’s quotations of Isaiah, both times as the standard of a place destroyed by God for its wickedness. In the oracle against Babylon, Babylon’s coming downfall is likened to Sodom’s: Babylon, “the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees’ excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah” (2 Nephi 23:19). Earlier, in the passage on Judah and Jerusalem, the people’s open sinning is said to “declare their sin to be even as Sodom” (2 Nephi 13:9). The city itself belongs to the Old World account; the Book of Mormon names it only as a point of comparison.