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.
Commentary on Genesis 19:4–141 voice
But before they lay down, the men of the city, both young and old, all the people to the last man, surrounded the house; and they called to Lot and said to him: Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out …
Bede· Commentary on Genesis (Hexaemeron), 735Patristic
- 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 19:242 voices
The sun rose upon the earth, and Lot entered Zoar; then the Lord rained upon Sodom and Gomorrah sulfur and fire from the Lord out of heaven; and he overthrew those cities and all the surrounding region. The sunrise upon the earth, at which Sodom …
Bede· Commentary on Genesis (Hexaemeron), 735Patristic
Then the Lord rained upon Sodom, and upon Gomorrah, brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- 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 19:252 voices
And he overthrew those cities,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
The sun rose upon the earth, and Lot entered Zoar; then the Lord rained upon Sodom and Gomorrah sulfur and fire from the Lord out of heaven; and he overthrew those cities and all the surrounding region. The sunrise upon the earth, at which Sodom …
Bede· Commentary on Genesis (Hexaemeron), 735Patristic
- 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 38:212 voices
Then he asked the men of that place,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
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 Bible, 1832Evangelical
- 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.’”
Commentary on Genesis 38:221 voice
And he returned to Judah, and said, I cannot find her,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Deuteronomy 23:17
No daughter or son of Israel is to be a shrine prostitute.
Commentary on Deuteronomy 23:171 voice
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
- 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 14:241 voice
"There was also prostitution in the land." [The Scripture] does not refer to the mere [prostitution] of bodies, nor to that of the soul, which is idolatry, but to that [prostitution] spread by demons among the Gentiles in order to corrupt God's creature and work, …
Ishodad of Merv· BOOKS OF SESSIONS 1 KINGS 14:24, 850Patristic
- 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 15:122 voices
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
In the meantime, Asa devoted himself to the reconstruction of the ruins of religion. He destroyed the temples of the idols, smashed the statues, set the sacred woods on fire and removed the ignominy of the effeminate priests. He also drove away Maacah, the mother …
Ephrem the Syrian· ON THE FIRST BOOK OF KINGS 15:1, 373Patristic
- 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
And the remnant of the Sodomites, which remained in the days of his father Asa, he took out of the land. His father Asa removed many of these filthy creatures, but not all; as many, no doubt, as came within his knowledge, but some remained, whom this his son removed, being of the same disposition with his father, see 1Ki 15:12.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- 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
And he brake down the houses of the Sodomites that were by the house of the Lord,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Job 36:14
They die in their youth, among the male shrine prostitutes.
Commentary on Job 36:141 voice
Their soul shall die in a tempest. For they were seeming to live as if in calm, when they were taking care to rejoice in the credit of holiness. But their soul, which used to rejoice in the fatal tranquillity of human praise, dies by a sudden tempest. For most commonly an unexpected tempest suddenly produces a change in all the calm blandishment of the air, and danger cannot be avoided, inasmuch as it could not be foreseen. Whence hypocrites, who neglect to watch over their conduct, are said to die in a tempest.
Gregory the Dialogist· Morals on the Book of Job, Book XXVI, 604Patristic
- 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 4:141 voice
"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 4:14, 420Patristic
- 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 11:242 voices
(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 Matthew, 420Patristic
(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 Matthew, 420Patristic
- Luke 10:12
I tell you, it will be more bearable on that day for Sodom than for that town.
Commentary on Luke 10:121 voice
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 IV, 202Patristic