From Nave’s Topical Bible
Sodomy
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.
- 20Passages listed
- 10Books of the 66
- 1896Nave's edition
How Nave’s arranged it
- General scriptures concerningGenesis 19:5–8Exodus 22:19Leviticus 18:22Leviticus 18:23Leviticus 20:13Leviticus 20:15Leviticus 20:16Deuteronomy 23:17Deuteronomy 27:21Judges 19:221 Kings 14:241 Kings 15:121 Kings 22:462 Kings 23:7Romans 1:24Romans 1:26Romans 1:271 Corinthians 6:91 Timothy 1:91 Timothy 1:10
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The passages, in Bible order (20)
The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 16 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.
- Genesis 19:5–8
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!”
- Exodus 22:19
Whoever lies with an animal must surely be put to death.
Commentary on Exodus 22:191 voice
Lieth with a beast - If this most abominable crime had not been common, it never would have been mentioned in a sacred code of laws. It is very likely that it was an Egyptian practice; and it is certain, from an account in Sonnini’s Travels, that it is practiced in Egypt to the present day.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the BibleEvangelical
- Leviticus 18:22
You must not lie with a man as with a woman; that is an abomination.
- Leviticus 18:23
You must not lie carnally with any animal, thus defiling yourself with it; a woman must not stand before an animal to mate with it; that is a perversion.
- Leviticus 20:13
If a man lies with a man as with a woman, they have both committed an abomination. They must surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.
- Leviticus 20:15
If a man lies carnally with an animal, he must be put to death. And you are also to kill the animal.
- Leviticus 20:16
If a woman approaches any animal to mate with it, you must kill both the woman and the animal. They must surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.
Commentary on Leviticus 20:161 voice
If a woman approach unto any beast - We have the authority of one of the most eminent historians in the world, Herodotus, to say that this was a crime not unknown in Egypt; yea, that a case of this nature actually took place while he was there. Εγενετο δ’ εν τῳ νο μῳ τουτῳ επ’ εμευ τουτο το τερας, Γυναικι Τραγος εμισγετο αναφανδον. Τουτο ες επιδειξιν ανθρωπων απικετο. - Herod. in Euterp., p. 108. Edit. Gale, Lond.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the BibleEvangelical
- 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
- Deuteronomy 27:21
‘Cursed is he who lies with any animal.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
- Judges 19:22
While they were enjoying themselves, suddenly the wicked men of the city surrounded the house. Pounding on the door, they said to the old man who owned the house, “Bring out the man who came to your house, so we can have relations with him!”
Commentary on Judges 19:221 voice
Sons of Belial - Profligate fellows. See the notes on Deu 13:13. That we may know him - See Gen 19:5. These were genuine sodomites as to their practice; sons of Belial, rascals and miscreants of the deepest dye; worse than brutes, being a compound of beast and devil inseparably blended.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the BibleEvangelical
- 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
- Romans 1:24
Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity for the dishonoring of their bodies with one another.
Commentary on Romans 1:241 voice
God - gave them up, etc. - They had filled up the measure of their iniquities, and God, by permitting them to plunge into all manner of irregularities, thus, by one species of sin, inflicted punishment on another. Dishonour their own bodies - Probably alluding here to what is more openly expressed, Rom 1:26, Rom 1:27. Between themselves - εν εαυτοις, Of themselves, of their own free accord; none inciting, none impelling.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the BibleEvangelical
- Romans 1:26
For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones.
Commentary on Romans 1:262 voices
Would those so condemned not have remained in the lusts of their hearts, even if they had not been given up to them by God? Would they not have fallen into dishonorable passions, even if they had not been given up to them by God? Would they not have fallen into an unfit mind quite apart from being given up to it by God?
Origen of Alexandria· ON PRAYER 29.12Patristic
For this cause God gave them up, etc. - Their system of idolatry necessarily produced all kinds of impurity. How could it be otherwise, when the highest objects of their worship were adulterers, fornicators, and prostitutes of the most infamous kind, such as Jupiter, Apollo, Mars, Venus, etc.? Of the abominable evils with which the apostle charges the Gentiles in this and the following verse I could produce a multitude of proofs from their own writings; but it is needless to make the subject plainer than the apostle has left it.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the BibleEvangelical