Topic
Sodomites
16 passages cited, from 3 classic reference works.
These works date from 1884–1897 and are in the public domain. They reflect the Protestant scholarship of their time: their history, archaeology and dates can be out of date, and where they interpret, other traditions read the text differently. The verses are shown in the King James Version, the wording these works were written against.
The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Deuteronomy 23:17Easton · Nave A proverbial term of reproach applied to those who practiced sodomy (ritual homosexuality)
¶ There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel.
- 1 Kings 14:24Easton · Nave A proverbial term of reproach applied to those who practiced sodomy (ritual homosexuality)
And there were also sodomites in the land: and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.
- 1 Kings 15:12Easton · Nave A proverbial term of reproach applied to those who practiced sodomy (ritual homosexuality)
And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
- Genesis 19:4–14Nave Wickedness of
¶ But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter: And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? bring…
- Genesis 19:24Nave Destroyed by fire as a judgement
Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven;
- Genesis 19:25Nave Destroyed by fire as a judgement
And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.
- Genesis 38:21Nave The word “harlot” (“shrine prostitute” (N. I. V.)) appears in
Then he asked the men of that place, saying, Where is the harlot, that was openly by the way side? And they said, There was no harlot in this place.
- Genesis 38:22Nave The word “harlot” (“shrine prostitute” (N. I. V.)) appears in
And he returned to Judah, and said, I cannot find her; and also the men of the place said, that there was no harlot in this place.
- 1 Kings 22:46Nave A proverbial term of reproach applied to those who practiced sodomy (ritual homosexuality)
And the remnant of the sodomites, which remained in the days of his father Asa, he took out of the land.
- 2 Kings 23:7Nave A proverbial term of reproach applied to those who practiced sodomy (ritual homosexuality)
And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were by the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the grove.
- Job 36:14Nave A proverbial term of reproach applied to those who practiced sodomy (ritual homosexuality)
They die in youth, and their life is among the unclean.
- Hosea 4:14Nave And is the translation of a Hebrew feminine form of the word translated elsewhere “sodomite”
I will not punish your daughters when they commit whoredom, nor your spouses when they commit adultery: for themselves are separated with whores, and they sacrifice with harlots: therefore the people that doth not understand shall fall.
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- Matthew 11:24 Nave To be judged according to opportunity
- Luke 10:12 Nave To be judged according to opportunity
- Romans 1:26 Easton
- Romans 1:27 Easton
In the reference works
Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · 6 references
Those who imitated the licentious wickedness of Sodom (Deut. 23:17; 1 Kings 14:24; Rom. 1:26, 27). Asa destroyed them “out of the land” (1 Kings 15:12), as did also his son Jehoshaphat (22:46).
Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884) · 0 references
In the topical indexes
Nave's Topical Bible (1896) · 15 references, grouped by sub-topic
- → (The inhabitants of Sodom, many of whom openly practiced homosexuality)
- → Wickedness of Ge 19:4-14
- → Destroyed by fire as a judgement Ge 19:24,25
- → To be judged according to opportunity Mt 11:24; Lu 10:12
- → A proverbial term of reproach applied to those who practiced sodomy (ritual homosexuality) De 23:17; 1Ki 14:24; 15:12; 22:46; 2Ki 23:7; Job 36:14
- → The word “harlot” (“shrine prostitute” (N. I. V.)) appears in Ge 38:21,22
- → And is applied to males De 23:17
- → And is the translation of a Hebrew feminine form of the word translated elsewhere “sodomite” Ho 4:14
- → See SODOMY
Texts: Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897); Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884); Nave's Topical Bible (1896), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.