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You might not agree with what the Hebrew prophets had to say, but what did they say about homosexuality? Can you find a quotation?

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Hebrew prophets on homosexuality is examined. How to find a quotation is examined.

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The Old Testament writers did not deal extensively with the subject of homosexuality, but it is addressed both in historical narratives and in the law of Moses. The subject also arises in some of the historical writings concerning the kingdom of Israel.

The issue first arises in Genesis 19, where the inhabitants of Sodom gather together and attempt to gang rape two angels in the form of men, who had entered into the home of Abraham's nephew Lot. When Lot attempted to distract them by offering his daughters, the men assaulted his house, and were smitten with blindness by the angels. Shortly thereafter God rained fire and brimstone from heaven and obliterated Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighboring cities. Practicers of homosexuality are thereafter known in the Old Testament as ...

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