Most people have heard of Sodom and Gomorrah, the cities we are told were destroyed for their sexual immorality in the 19th chapter of Genesis (See John Martin’s famous 1852 painting left).
Sodom and Gomorrah have become synonymous with impenitent sin, and their fall with a proverbial manifestation of God's wrath.
The story has therefore given rise to the English word ‘sodomy’ to describe a sexual ‘crime against nature’ and specifically homosexuality.
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