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Bible Verses About Sodomites

24 verses · 5 aspects

Key Bible Verses

  1. Before they lie down, the men of the city--men of Sodom--have come round about against the house, from young even unto aged, all the people from the extremity;

  2. and they call unto Lot and say to him, `Where are the men who have come in unto thee to-night? bring them out unto us, and we know them.'

  3. And Lot goeth out unto them, to the opening, and the door hath shut behind him,

  4. and saith, `Do not, I pray you, my brethren, do evil;

  5. lo, I pray you, I have two daughters, who have not known any one; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do to them as is good in your eyes; only to these men do not anything, for therefore have they come in within the shadow of my roof.'

  6. And they say, `Come nigh hither;' they say also, `This one hath come in to sojourn, and he certainly judgeth! now, we do evil to thee more than to them;' and they press against the man, against Lot greatly, and come nigh to break the door.

  7. And the men put forth their hand, and bring in Lot unto them, into the house, and have shut the door;

  8. and the men who are at the opening of the house they have smitten with blindness, from small even unto great, and they weary themselves to find the opening.

  9. And the men say unto Lot, `Whom hast thou here still? son-in-law, thy sons also, and thy daughters, and all whom thou hast in the city, bring out from this place;

  10. for we are destroying this place, for their cry hath been great before the face of Jehovah, and Jehovah doth send us to destroy it.'

  11. And Lot goeth out, and speaketh unto his sons-in-law, those taking his daughters, and saith, `Rise, go out from this place, for Jehovah is destroying the city;' and he is as one mocking in the eyes of his sons-in-law.

  12. and Jehovah hath rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from Jehovah, from the heavens;

  13. and He overthroweth these cities, and all the circuit, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which is shooting up from the ground.

  14. And he asketh the men of her place, saying, `Where is the separated one--she in Enayim, by the way?' and they say, `There hath not been in this place a separated one.'

  15. And he turneth back unto Judah, and saith, `I have not found her; and the men of the place also have said, There hath not been in this place a separated one,'

  16. `There is not a whore among the daughters of Israel, nor is there a whoremonger among the sons of Israel;

  17. and also a whoremonger hath been in the land; they have done according to all the abominations of the nations that Jehovah dispossessed from the presence of the sons of Israel.

  18. and removeth the whoremongers out of the land, and turneth aside all the idols that his fathers made;

  19. And the remnant of the whoremongers who were left in the days of Asa his father he took away out of the land;

  20. And he breaketh down the houses of the whoremongers that are in the house of Jehovah, where the women are weaving houses for the shrine.

  21. Their soul dieth in youth, And their life among the defiled.

  22. Therefore commit whoredom do your daughters, And your spouses commit adultery, I do not see after your daughters when they commit whoredom, And after your spouses when they commit adultery, For they with the harlots are separated, And with the whores they do sacrifice, A people that doth not understand kicketh.

  23. but I say to you, to the land of Sodom it shall be more tolerable in a day of judgment than to thee.'

  24. and I say to you, that for Sodom in that day it shall be more tolerable than for that city.