Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Now as they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, certain sons of Belial, beset the house round about, and beat at the door, and spake to the master of the house, the old man, saying, Bring forth the man that came into thine house, that we may know him.

Bible References

They were

Judges 19:6
So they sat down and the two of them ate and drank together. Then the girl’s father said to the man, “Please agree to stay overnight and enjoy yourself.”
Judges 16:25
When they were drunk, they said, “Bring Samson here to entertain us.” So they brought Samson from prison, and he entertained them. They had him stand between the pillars.

The men

Judges 20:5
Citizens of Gibeah ganged up on me and surrounded the house at night. They intended to kill me, but they raped my concubine, and she died.
Genesis 19:4
Before they went to bed, the men of the city of Sodom, both young and old, the whole population, surrounded the house.
Hosea 9:9
They have deeply corrupted themselves
as in the days of Gibeah.
He will remember their guilt;
He will punish their sins.
Hosea 10:9
Israel, you have sinned
since the days of Gibeah;
they have taken their stand there.
Will not war against the unjust
overtake them in Gibeah?

Bring forth

Genesis 19:5
They called out to Lot and said, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Send them out to us so we can have sex with them!”
Romans 1:26
This is why God delivered them over to degrading passions. For even their females exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones.
1 Corinthians 6:9
Don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s kingdom? Do not be deceived: No sexually immoral people, idolaters, adulterers, or anyone practicing homosexuality,
Jude 1:7
In the same way, Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them committed sexual immorality and practiced perversions, just as angels did, and serve as an example by undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.

General references

Genesis 19:5
They called out to Lot and said, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Send them out to us so we can have sex with them!”
Leviticus 18:22
You are not to sleep with a man as with a woman; it is detestable.
Leviticus 20:13
If a man sleeps with a man as with a woman, they have both committed a detestable thing. They must be put to death; their blood is on their own hands.

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