From Nave’s Topical Bible
Sodomites
Every passage the 1896 Nave’s Topical Biblegathers under this heading, in Nave’s own arrangement and then in Bible order. MannaFest has not written this page — it is the older index, transcribed, with the Word travelling beside each reference.
- 14Passages listed
- 8Books of the 66
- 1896Nave's edition
How Nave’s arranged it
- (The inhabitants of Sodom, many of whom openly practiced homosexuality)
- Wickedness ofGenesis 19:4–14
- Destroyed by fire as a judgementGenesis 19:24Genesis 19:25
- To be judged according to opportunityMatthew 11:24Luke 10:12
- A proverbial term of reproach applied to those who practiced sodomy (ritual homosexuality)Deuteronomy 23:171 Kings 14:241 Kings 15:121 Kings 22:462 Kings 23:7Job 36:14
- The word "harlot" ("shrine prostitute" (N. I. V.)) appears inGenesis 38:21Genesis 38:22
- And is applied to malesDeuteronomy 23:17
- And is the translation of a Hebrew feminine form of the word translated elsewhere "sodomite"Hosea 4:14
- See Sodomy
The passages, in Bible order (14)
The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 14 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.
- 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.
- Genesis 19:24
Then the LORD rained down sulfur and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah—from the LORD out of the heavens.
Commentary on Genesis 19:241 voice
The Lord rained - brimstone and fire from the Lord - As all judgment is committed to the Son of God, many of the primitive fathers and several modern divines have supposed that the words ויהוה vaihovah and מאת יהוה meeth Yehovah imply, Jehovah the Son raining brimstone and fire from Jehovah the Father; and that this place affords no mean proof of the proper Divinity of our blessed Redeemer. It may be so; but though the point is sufficiently established elsewhere, it does not appear to me to be plainly indicated here.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the BibleEvangelical
- Genesis 19:25
Thus He destroyed these cities and the entire plain, including all the inhabitants of the cities and everything that grew on the ground.
Commentary on Genesis 19:251 voice
And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain - This forms what is called the lake Asphaltites, Dead Sea, or Salt Sea, which, according to the most authentic accounts, is about seventy miles in length, and eighteen in breadth. The most strange and incredible tales are told by many of the ancients, and by many of the moderns, concerning the place where these cities stood.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the BibleEvangelical
- Genesis 38:21
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.
Commentary on Genesis 38:211 voice
Where is the harlot that was openly by the wayside? - Our translators often render different Hebrew words by the same term in English, and thus many important shades of meaning, which involve traits of character, are lost. In Gen 38:15, Tamar is called a harlot, זונה zonah, which, as we have already seen, signifies a person who prostitutes herself for money. In this verse she is called a harlot in our version; but the original is not זונה but קדשה kedeshah, a holy or consecrated person, from קדש kadash, to make holy, or to consecrate to religious purposes.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the BibleEvangelical
- Genesis 38:22
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.’”
- Deuteronomy 23:17
No daughter or son of Israel is to be a shrine prostitute.
Commentary on Deuteronomy 23:172 voices
There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel,.... The word for "whore" is "kedeshah", which properly signifies an "holy" one; and here, by an antiphrasis, an unholy, an impure person, one that is defiled by man; See Gill on Gen 38:
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
Compare the marginal reference. Prostitution was a common part of religious observances among idolatrous nations, especially in the worship of Ashtoreth or Astarte. Compare Mic 1:7; Baruch 6:43.
Albert Barnes· Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)Evangelical
- 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.
Commentary on 1 Kings 14:242 voices
And there were also Sodomites in the land, Such as were addicted to unnatural lusts between men and men, which the men of Sodom were guilty of, from whence they had their name: Jarchi interprets the word adultery and some versions render it whoremongers; and filthy actions of this nature, both by men and women, usually attended idolatrous practices among the heathens; in their temples and groves such wickednesses were privately perpetrated: and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the Lord cast out before the children of Israel; the Canaanites, of whose uncleannesses, incests, and bestialities, see Lev 18:
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
There were also sodomites in the land - קדשים kedeshim, consecrated persons; persons who had devoted themselves, in practices of the greatest impurity, to the service of the most impure idols.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the BibleEvangelical
- 1 Kings 15:12
He banished the male shrine prostitutes from the land and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
Commentary on 1 Kings 15:121 voice
And he took away the Sodomites out of the land,.... Which were in the times of Rehoboam, 1Ki 14:24, and continued in his father's reign; those he took away, either by driving them out of the land, or by putting them to death according to the law of God, Lev 20:13 even as many of them as he had knowledge of, for some remained, see 1Ki 22:46, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made; or suffered to be made, as Solomon, Rehoboam, and Abijam, see 1Ki 11:7.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- 1 Kings 22:46
He banished from the land the male shrine prostitutes who remained from the days of his father Asa.
Commentary on 1 Kings 22:461 voice
The remnant of the sodomites - הקדש of the consecrated persons; or it may rather apply here to the system of pollution, effeminacy, and debauch. He destroyed the thing itself; the abominations of Priapus, and the rites of Venus, Baal, and Ashtaroth. No more of that impure worship was to be found in Judea.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the BibleEvangelical
- 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.
Commentary on 2 Kings 23:71 voice
The houses of the sodomites - We have already often met with these קדשים kedeshim or consecrated persons. The word implies all kinds of prostitutes, as well as abusers of themselves with mankind. Wove hangings for the grove - For Asherah; curtains or tent coverings for the places where the rites of the impure goddess were performed. See at the end of 2Ki 21:26 (note).
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the BibleEvangelical
- Job 36:14
They die in their youth, among the male shrine prostitutes.
Commentary on Job 36:141 voice
They die in youth - Exactly what the psalmist says, “Bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days,” Psa 55:23. Literally, the words of Elihu are, “They shall die in the youth of their soul.” Their life is among the unclean - בקדשים bakedeshim, among the whores, harlots, prostitutes, and sodomites. In this sense the word is used, though it also signifies consecrated persons; but we know that in idolatry characters of this kind were consecrated to Baal and Ashtaroth, Venus, Priapus, etc. Mr. Good translates the rabble.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the BibleEvangelical
- 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.
Commentary on Hosea 4:142 voices
"Therefore, your daughters will prostitute themselves, and your daughters-in-law will commit adultery. I will not punish your daughters when they fornicate or your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery, because they themselves consorted with prostitutes and offered sacrifices with effeminate men, and the people who do not understand will be punished." LXX: "Therefore your daughters will prostitute themselves, and your brides will commit adultery; I will not punish them for prostitution nor for adultery, because they went to prostitutes and arranged pagan temple rites with sacred prostitutes; a senseless people they are."
Jerome· Commentary on Hosea 4:14Patristic
I will not punish your daughters when they commit whoredoms, nor your spouses when they commit adultery,.... Either not punish them at all, so that they shall go on in sin, and to a greater degree, to the disgrace and reproach of their parents and husbands; or not as yet, or not so severely in them, because it was by their example they were led into it. Jarchi's note is very impertinent, that God threatens them with the disuse of the bitter waters of jealousy.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Matthew 11:24
But I tell you that it will be more bearable for Sodom on the day of judgment than for you.”
Commentary on Matthew 11:241 voice
(Vers. 23, 24.) Because if in Sodom (or, as some say, in Sidon) the miracles had been done that have been done in you, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. But I say to you that it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom on the day of judgment than for you.
Jerome· Commentary on MatthewPatristic
- Luke 10:12
I tell you, it will be more bearable on that day for Sodom than for that town.
Commentary on Luke 10:122 voices
And it was He who rained fire and brimstone from heaven, in the days of Lot, upon Sodom and Gomorrah, "an example of the righteous judgment of God," that all may know, "that every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit shall be cut down, and cast into the fire." And it is He who uses [the words], that it will be more tolerable for Sodom in the general judgment than for those who beheld His wonders, and did not believe on Him, nor receive His doctrine.
Irenaeus· Against Heresies Book IVPatristic
But I say unto you,.... The same that he said to the twelve apostles, when he sent them out, Mat 10:15, that it shall be more tolerable in that day for Sodom than for that city. By "that day" is meant, the famous day to come, the last day; the day of judgment, as it is expressed in Matthew; and so the Ethiopic version reads here, "it shall be better in the day of judgment".
John Gill· Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)Reformed