SODOM, SODOMITE

Old Testament:

Hebrew –

Sodom s’dom to scorch, burnt, volcanic

Sodomite qades a male devotee by prostitution, to licentious idolatry: unclean, sodomite

Genesis 13:13 “But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the Lord exceedingly.”

Genesis 18:20-33 “And the Lord said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous…”

Genesis 19:1-3 “And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground;”

Genesis 19:4-9 “But 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 19:10-14 “But the men put forth their hand, and pulled Lot into the house to them, and shut to the door.  And 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.  And 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: For we will destroy this place, because of the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the Lord; and the Lord hath sent us to destroy it.  And 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 19:15-16 “And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife, and they two daughters, which are here; lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city.  And while he lingered, the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters; the Lord being merciful unto him: and they bought him forth, and set him without the city.”

Genesis 19:17-19 “And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; look no behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; except to the mountain, lest thou be consumed. And Lot said unto them, Oh, not so, my Lord: Behold now, thy servant hath found grace in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shewed unto me in saving my life; and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil take me, and I die:”

Genesis 19:20-22 “Behold now, this city is heart to flee unto, and it is a little one: Oh, let me escape thither, is it not a little one and my soul shall live.  And he said unto him, See, I have accepted thee concerning this thing also, that I wilt not overthrow this city, for the which thou hast spoken.  Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do anything till thou be come thither.  Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.”

Genesis 19:23-26 “The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar.  Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven;  and he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.  But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.”

Genesis 19:27-30 “And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the Lord: and he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.”

Genesis 19:31-35 “And the first born said unto the younger, our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the earth: Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.  And they made their father drink wine that night: and the first born went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.

And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yester-night with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.  And they made their father drink wine that night also: and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.”

Genesis 19:36-38 “Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father.  And the first born bare a son, and called his name Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites unto this day.  And the younger, she also bare a son, and called his name Ben-am-mi: the same is the father of the children of Ammon unto this day.”

Deuteronomy 23:17 “There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a Sodomite of the sons of Israel.”

I Kings 14:24 “And 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.”

I Kings 15:12 “And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.”

II Kings 23:7 “And he brake down the houses of the Sodomites, that were by the house of the Lord, where the women wove hangings for the grove.”

Ezekiel 16:49-50 “Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fullness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.  And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: there I took them away as I saw good.”

New Testament

Greek –

Sodom sodoma (that is sedom), Sodom

II Peter 2:6 “And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes: condemned with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly.”

Jude 1:7 “Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.”

Revelation 11:8-9 “And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.  And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three days and an half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves.”

Revelation 11:10-12 “And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them, and make merry, and shall send gifts one to another; because these two prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth.  And after three days and an half the Spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon them which saw them.  And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither.  And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them.”

 

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