Topic
SODOMITES
(The inhabitants of Sodom, many of whom openly practiced homosexuality)
Passages on this topic · 24
- Genesis 19:4
But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, both young and old, all the people from every quarter.
- Genesis 19:5
They called to Lot, and said to him, “Where are the men who came in to you this night? Bring them out to us, that we may have sex with them.”
- Genesis 19:6
Lot went out to them to the door, and shut the door after him.
- Genesis 19:7
He said, “Please, my brothers, don’t act so wickedly.
- Genesis 19:8
See now, I have two virgin daughters. Please let me bring them out to you, and you may do to them what seems good to you. Only don’t do anything to these men, because they have come under the shadow of my roof.”
- Genesis 19:9
They said, “Stand back!” Then they said, “This one fellow came in to live as a foreigner, and he appoints himself a judge. Now will we deal worse with you, than with them!” They pressed hard on the man Lot, and came near to break the door.
- Genesis 19:10
But the men reached out their hand, and brought Lot into the house to them, and shut the door.
- Genesis 19:11
They struck the men who were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great, so that they wearied themselves to find the door.
- Genesis 19:12
The men said to Lot, “Do you have anybody else here? Sons-in-law, your sons, your daughters, and whoever you have in the city, bring them out of the place:
- Genesis 19:13
for we will destroy this place, because the outcry against them has grown so great before Yahweh that Yahweh has sent us to destroy it.”
- Genesis 19:14
Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry his daughters, and said, “Get up! Get out of this place, for Yahweh will destroy the city.” But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be joking.
- Genesis 19:24
Then Yahweh rained on Sodom and on Gomorrah sulfur and fire from Yahweh out of the sky.
- Genesis 19:25
He overthrew those cities, all the plain, all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew on the ground.
- Genesis 38:21
Then he asked the men of her place, saying, “Where is the prostitute, that was at Enaim by the road?” They said, “There has been no prostitute here.”
- Genesis 38:22
He returned to Judah, and said, “I haven’t found her; and also the men of the place said, ‘There has been no prostitute here.’”
- Deuteronomy 23:17
There shall be no prostitute of the daughters of Israel, neither shall there be a sodomite of the sons of Israel.
- 1 Kings 14:24
There were also sodomites in the land. They did according to all the abominations of the nations which Yahweh drove out before the children of Israel.
- 1 Kings 15:12
He put away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
- 1 Kings 22:46
The remnant of the sodomites, that remained in the days of his father Asa, he put away out of the land.
- 2 Kings 23:7
He broke down the houses of the male shrine prostitutes that were in Yahweh’s house, where the women wove hangings for the Asherah.
- Job 36:14
They die in youth. Their life perishes among the unclean.
- Hosea 4:14
I will not punish your daughters when they play the prostitute, nor your brides when they commit adultery; because the men consort with prostitutes, and they sacrifice with the shrine prostitutes; so the people without understanding will come to ruin.
- Matthew 11:24
But I tell you that it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom, on the day of judgment, than for you.”
- Luke 10:12
I tell you, it will be more tolerable in that day for Sodom than for that city.
From Nave’s Topical Bible (public domain).