Nave’s Topical Bible
Sodomites
13 Bible references
Sub-topics and passages
(The inhabitants of Sodom, many of whom openly practiced Homosexuality)
- Wickedness of
- Destroyed by fire as a judgement
- To be judged according to opportunity
- A proverbial term of reproach applied to those who practiced Sodomy (ritual homosexuality)
Deuteronomy 23:17; 1 Kings 14:24; 1 Kings 15:12; 1 Kings 22:46; 2 Kings 23:7; Job 36:14
- The word "harlot" ("shrine prostitute" (N. I. V.)) appears in
- And is applied to males
- And is the translation of a Hebrew feminine form of the word Translated elsewhere "sodomite"
See SODOMY
Bible verses about “Sodomites”
The first verses cited, in the King James Version.
- Genesis 19:4But 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:
- Genesis 19:5And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them.
- Genesis 19:6And Lot went out at the door unto them, and shut the door after him,
- Genesis 19:7And said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly.
- Genesis 19:8Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing; for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof.
- Genesis 19:9And they said, Stand back. And they said again, This one fellow came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a judge: now will we deal worse with thee, than with them. And they pressed sore upon the man, even Lot, and came near to break the door.
- Genesis 19:10But the men put forth their hand, and pulled Lot into the house to them, and shut to the door.
- Genesis 19:11And they smote the men that were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great: so that they wearied themselves to find the door.
- Genesis 19:12And the men said unto Lot, Hast thou here any besides? son in law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and whatsoever thou hast in the city, bring them out of this place:
- Genesis 19:13For we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the Lord; and the Lord hath sent us to destroy it.
- Genesis 19:14And Lot went out, and spake unto his sons in law, which married his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place; for the Lord will destroy this city. But he seemed as one that mocked unto his sons in law.
- Genesis 19:24Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven;
- Genesis 19:25And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.
- Matthew 11:24But I say unto you, That it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment, than for thee.
- Luke 10:12But I say unto you, that it shall be more tolerable in that day for Sodom, than for that city.
- Deuteronomy 23:17There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel.
- 1 Kings 14:24And 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 15:12And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
- 1 Kings 22:46And the remnant of the sodomites, which remained in the days of his father Asa, he took out of the land.
- 2 Kings 23:7And 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 36:14They die in youth, and their life is among the unclean.
- Genesis 38:21Then 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 38:22And 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.
- Hosea 4:14I 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.