Jeremiah 7:30
For the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, saith Jehovah; they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile it.
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2 Kings 21:4And he built altars in the house of Jehovah, of which Jehovah had said, In Jerusalem will I put my name.
2 Kings 23:4And the king commanded Hilkijah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the doorkeepers, to bring forth out of the temple of Jehovah all the vessels that had been made for Baal, and for the Asherah, and for all the host of the heavens; and he burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried the ashes of them to Bethel.
2 Chronicles 33:4And he built altars in the house of Jehovah, of which Jehovah had said, In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever.
2 Chronicles 33:15And he removed the strange gods, and the idol out of the house of Jehovah, and all the altars that he had built on the mount of the house of Jehovah and in Jerusalem, and cast [them] out of the city.
Jeremiah 32:34And they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile it;
Ezekiel 7:20And he set in majesty his beautiful ornament; but they made therein the images of their abominations [and] of their detestable things: therefore have I made it an impurity unto them.
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 7:30-34
The Desolation of Judah. ( b. c. 606.) 29 Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the Lord hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath. 30 For the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, saith the Lord : they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to pollute it. 31 And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which… Read the whole commentary →