| Verse | Translation | Text |
| 1Ki 14:24 | King James | 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. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
| Sodomites - literally, " (men) consecrated." The men in question were in fact "consecrated" to the mother of the gods, the famous "Dea Syra," whose priests, or rather devotees, they were considered to be. The nature of the ancient idolatries is best understood by recollecting that persons of this degraded class practiced their abominable trade under a religious sanction. |