Sodomites [nave]
SODOMITES, inhabitants of Sodom. Wickedness of, Gen. 19:4-14.Destroyed by fire as a judgment, Gen. 19:24, 25.
To be judged according to opportunity, Matt. 11:24; Luke 10:12.
See: Homosexual.
Sodomites [ebd]
those who imitated the licentious wickedness of Sodom (Deut. 23:17; 1 Kings 14:24; Rom. 1:26, 27). Asa destroyed them "out of the land" (1 Kings 15:12), as did also his son Jehoshaphat (22:46).
SODOMITES [smith]
This word does not denote the inhabitants of Sodom; but it is employed in the Authorized Version of the Old Testament for those who practiced as a religious rite the abominable and unnatural vice from which the inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrah have derived their lasting infamy.
