Leviticus 18:27
(for the men of the land that were before you had done all these abominations, and the land became defiled),
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Deuteronomy 20:18that they not teach you to follow all their abominations, which they have done for their gods; so would you sin against the LORD your God.
Deuteronomy 25:16For all who do such things, all who do unrighteously, are an abomination to the LORD your God.
1 Kings 14:24There were also sodomites in the land. They did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD drove out before the children of Israel.
2 Kings 21:2He did that which was evil in the LORD’s sight, after the abominations of the nations whom the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.
Ezekiel 16:50They were arrogant and committed abomination before me. Therefore I took them away when I saw it.
Hosea 9:10I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your fathers as the first ripe in the fig tree at its first season; but they came to Baal Peor, and consecrated themselves to the shameful thing, and became abominable like that which they loved.
Matthew Henry on Leviticus 18:20-30
Laws against Iniquity. ( b. c. 1490.) 19 Also thou shalt not approach unto a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is put apart for her uncleanness. 20 Moreover thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbour's wife, to defile thyself with her. 21 And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through the fire to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the Lord . 22 Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination. 23 Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile… Read the whole commentary →