SODOMITES
- (The inhabitants of Sodom, many of whom openly practiced homosexuality):
- Wickedness of: Gen.19.4-Gen.19.14
- Destroyed by fire as a judgement: Gen.19.24, Gen.19.25
- To be judged according to opportunity: Matt.11.24, Luke.10.12
- A proverbial term of reproach applied to those who practiced sodomy (ritual homosexuality): Deut.23.17, 1Kgs.14.24, 1Kgs.15.12, 1Kgs.22.46, 2Kgs.23.7, Job.36.14
- The word “harlot” (“shrine prostitute” (N. I. V.)) appears in: Gen.38.21, Gen.38.22
- And is applied to males: Deut.23.17
- And is the translation of a Hebrew feminine form of the word translated elsewhere “sodomite”: Hos.4.14
Ver também: SODOMY