Sodomites

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From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), a historical reference index. The groupings are Nave’s; the verses are shown in the text used across this site.

(The inhabitants of Sodom, many of whom openly practiced homosexuality)

Wickedness of

• Genesis 19:4–14 Before they had gone to bed, all the men of the city of Sodom, both young and old, surrounded the house. They called out to Lot, saying, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Send them out to us so we can have relations with them!” Lot went outside to meet them, shutting the door behind him.…

Destroyed by fire as a judgement

• Genesis 19:24–25 Then the LORD rained down sulfur and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah — from the LORD out of the heavens. Thus He destroyed these cities and the entire plain, including all the inhabitants of the cities and everything that grew on the ground.

To be judged according to opportunity

• Matthew 11:24 But I tell you that it will be more bearable for Sodom on the day of judgment than for you.”
• Luke 10:12 I tell you, it will be more bearable on that day for Sodom than for that town.

A proverbial term of reproach applied to those who practiced sodomy (ritual homosexuality)

• Deuteronomy 23:17 No daughter or son of Israel is to be a shrine prostitute.
• 1 Kings 14:24 There were even male shrine prostitutes in the land. They imitated all the abominations of the nations the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.
• 1 Kings 15:12 He banished the male shrine prostitutes from the land and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
• 1 Kings 22:46 He banished from the land the male shrine prostitutes who remained from the days of his father Asa.
• 2 Kings 23:7 He also tore down the quarters of the male shrine prostitutes that were in the house of the LORD, where the women had woven tapestries for Asherah.
• Job 36:14 They die in their youth, among the male shrine prostitutes.

The word "harlot" ("shrine prostitute" (N. I. V.)) appears in

• Genesis 38:21–22 He asked the men of that place, “Where is the shrine prostitute who was beside the road at Enaim?” “No shrine prostitute has been here,” they answered. So Hirah returned to Judah and said, “I could not find her, and furthermore, the men of that place said, ‘No shrine prostitute has been here.’”

And is applied to males

• Deuteronomy 23:17 No daughter or son of Israel is to be a shrine prostitute.

And is the translation of a Hebrew feminine form of the word translated elsewhere "sodomite"

• Hosea 4:14 I will not punish your daughters when they prostitute themselves, nor your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery. For the men themselves go off with prostitutes and offer sacrifices with shrine prostitutes. So a people without understanding will come to ruin.

See Sodomy