Jeremiah 7:30

For the sons of Judah, have done, that which was wicked in mine eyes, Declareth Yahweh,—They have set their abominations in the house whereon my Name hath been called to defile it;

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

29Cut thou off thy crown of hair [O Jerusalem], and cast it away, And lift thou up on the bare heights, a dirge,—For Yahweh hath rejected and cast out the generation with which he was wroth.

31And they have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, To burn up their sons and their daughters in the fire,—Which I commanded not, Neither came it up on my heart,

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Cross References

2 Kings 21:4And he used to build altars in the house of Yahweh,—concerning which Yahweh had said,—In Jerusalem, will I put my Name.

2 Kings 23:4Then the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the entrance-hall, to bring forth, out of the temple of Yahweh, all the vessels that had been made for Baal and for the Sacred Stem, and for all the army of the heavens,—and he burned them up outside Jerusalem, in the fields of Kidron, and carried the ashes of them to Bethel;

2 Chronicles 33:4and built altars in the house of Yahweh,—as to which Yahweh had said, In Jerusalem, shall be my Name, unto times age-abiding.

2 Chronicles 33:15And he removed the gods of the foreigner and the image, out of the house of Yahweh, and all the altars that he had built in the mountain of the house of Yahweh, and in Jerusalem,—and he cast them forth outside the city.

Jeremiah 32:34But have set their abominations in the house on which my name hath been called, to defile it;

Ezekiel 7:20When, the beauty of his own ornament, he had, in majesty, placed, Then, the images, of their abominations Their detestable things, Made they therein,— For this cause have I delivered it up to them for removal;

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 →

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