Bible Verses About Abomination KJV

Discover the Bible Verses About Abomination KJV. An Abomination, as mentioned in the Bible, is a violation of God’s law and the tenets of Christianity. If you regularly read your Bible, chances are high that you’ve come across the word “abomination.” You may have as well heard the word used in sermons. Thus, it should come as no surprise that an abomination has a negative connotation in the Christian milieu. On no occasion does the Bible speaks favorably of anything with the label of abomination. As we proceed with this piece of writing, we’ll explore the definition of abomination, what the Bible labels as an abomination, and what Christians should know about abominations.

An abomination is something that causes hate or disgust. Biblically, an abomination is something that God hates because it is offensive to Him and His character. The Hebrew words translated as “abomination” are often used in association with things like idolatry and false gods (Deuteronomy 17:2–5; 27:15; 29:17; Isaiah 66:3; Jeremiah 32:34; Ezekiel 5:9; 11:18; Hosea 9:10). In 1 Kings 11:5 (KJV), the god Molech is referred to as “the abomination of the Ammonites.” The NIV translates it as “the detestable god of the Ammonites.” The point here is that God hates the falsehood, wickedness, and impurity of these pagan gods.

Bible Verses About Abomination KJV

Definition And Meaning Of Abomination

Abomination is defined as anything abominable; anything greatly disliked or abhorred. It points to an intense aversion or loathing as well as a vile, detestable, or shameful action, condition, and/or habit. The meaning of abomination in the Bible can be better understood as an expression of the idea that the Egyptians considered themselves as defiled when they ate with strangers (Genesis 43:32). The Jews subsequently followed the same practice, holding it unlawful to eat and/or drink with strangers/foreigners (John 18:28; Acts 10:28; 11:3). Unto the Egyptians, every shepherd was “an abomination” (Genesis 46:34). This dislike to shepherds, such as the Hebrews, arose probably from the fact that Lower and Middle Egypt had formerly been held in oppressive subjection by a tribe of nomad shepherds (the Hyksos), who had only been recently expelled. Also, the Egyptians detested the lawless habits of these wandering shepherds.

What The Scriptures Say About Abomination

Abomination is used symbolically of sin in general (Isaiah 66:3); an idol (Isaiah 44:19); the ceremonies of the apostate church of Rome (Revelation 17:4); and a detestable act (Ezekiel 22:11). Occult practices are also called an abomination in Scripture, as is child sacrifice (Deuteronomy 18:9–12; 20:18; 2 Chronicles 28:3). The Scriptures reveal other abominations in God’s sight to be ungodly sexual relationships like homosexuality and adultery (Leviticus 18:22–29; 20:13; Deuteronomy 24:4), imperfect sacrifices (Deuteronomy 17:1), cross-dressing (Deuteronomy 22:5), wickedness (Proverbs 15:9, 26), dishonest business dealings (Deuteronomy 25:13–16; Proverbs 11:1; 20:10, 23), turning deaf ear to God’s instructions (Proverbs 28:9), hypocritical offerings from the unrepentant (Proverbs 15:8; Isaiah 1:13), and partaking in injustice (Proverbs 17:15).

Most of the Biblical references to that which is abominable or detestable come in God’s Law in the book of Leviticus and Deuteronomy, in prophecies declaring God’s judgment against Israel, and in Proverbs. Proverbs 6 reveals a list of seven things that God calls an abomination: “There are six things that the Lord hates, seven that are an abomination to him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that make haste to run to evil, a false witness who breathes out lies, and one who sows discord among brothers” (Proverbs 6:16–19). Likewise, Jesus tells the Pharisees in Luke 16:15 – “What is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.” The context of this statement is a rebuke of the Pharisees’ love of money.

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Titus 1:16 tells us that false teachers may “claim to know God, but by their actions they deny him. They are detestable, disobedient and unfit for doing anything good.” Daniel and Jesus both predicted the abomination of desolation that would corrupt the holy place of the temple (Matthew 24:15; Daniel 9:27). Likewise related to the end times, the whore of Babylon is pictured as holding “a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:” (Revelation 17:4). She is regarded as the mother of all the abominations on Earth (Revelation 17:5) and identified as “the great city that reigneth over the kings of the earth” (Revelation 17:18). And it is without a single doubt that this city with all of its loathsome acts will be destroyed (Revelation 17: 16-17).

Moving from idolatry to ungodly sexual relationships to unfair scales to wickedness of various kinds, abominations separate people from God. In fact, we can say that all sin (missing the mark of God’s perfection) can be considered an abomination. Behold, all sin separates us from God and is detestable to Him (Romans 3:23; 6:23; Proverbs 15:9). God’s hatred of sin makes Christ’s sacrifice on the Cross at Calvary all the more remarkable. The Bible makes us understand that it was at the Cross that “God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God” (2 Corinthians 5:21). By suffering and dying for our sins, Jesus Christ identified Himself with the Psalmist: “I am a worm and not a man, scorned by everyone, despised by the people” (Psalm 22:6).

Bible Verses About Abomination KJV

Leviticus 18:26 – “Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit [any] of these abominations; [neither] any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you:“

Leviticus 18:27 – “(For all these abominations have the men of the land done, which [were] before you, and the land is defiled;)“

Leviticus 18:29 – “For whosoever shall commit any of these abominations, even the souls that commit [them] shall be cut off from among their people.“

Deuteronomy 18:9 – “When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.”

Deuteronomy 18:12 – “For all that do these things [are] an abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee.“

Deuteronomy 20:18 – “That they teach you not to do after all their abominations, which they have done unto their gods; so should ye sin against the LORD your God.”

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Deuteronomy 29:17 – “And ye have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which [were] among them:)“

Deuteronomy 32:16 – “They provoked him to jealousy with strange [gods], with abominations provoked they him to anger.“

Kings-1 14:24 – “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.”

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Kings-2 23:24 – “Moreover the [workers with] familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the images, and the idols, and all the abominations that were spied in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, did Josiah put away, that he might perform the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the LORD.”

Chronicles-2 28:3 – “Moreover he burnt incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and burnt his children in the fire, after the abominations of the heathen whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel.”

Chronicles-2 33:2 – “But did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD, like unto the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel.“

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Chronicles-2 34:33 – “And Josiah took away all the abominations out of all the countries that [pertained] to the children of Israel, and made all that were present in Israel to serve, [even] to serve the LORD their God. [And] all his days they departed not from following the LORD, the God of their fathers.”

Chronicles-2 36:8 – “Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and his abominations which he did, and that which was found in him, behold, they [are] written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah: and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead.”

Chronicles-2 36:14 – “Moreover all the chief of the priests, and the people, transgressed very much after all the abominations of the heathen; and polluted the house of the LORD which he had hallowed in Jerusalem.“

Ezra 9:1 – “Now when these things were done, the princes came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the people of the lands, [doing] according to their abominations, [even] of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.”

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Ezra 9:11 – “Which thou hast commanded by thy servants the prophets, saying, The land, unto which ye go to possess it, is an unclean land with the filthiness of the people of the lands, with their abominations, which have filled it from one end to another with their uncleanness.”

Ezra 9:14 – “Should we again break thy commandments, and join in affinity with the people of these abominations? wouldest not thou be angry with us till thou hadst consumed [us], so that [there should be] no remnant nor escaping?“

Proverbs 26:25 – “When he speaketh fair, believe him not: for [there are] seven abominations in his heart.“

Isaiah 66:3 – “He that killeth an ox [is as if] he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, [as if] he cut off a dog’s neck; he that offereth an oblation, [as if he offered] swine’s blood; he that burneth incense, [as if] he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations.“

Jeremiah 4:1 – “If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the LORD, return unto me: and if thou wilt put away thine abominations out of my sight, then shalt thou not remove.“

Jeremiah 7:10 – “And come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations?“

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Jeremiah 7:30 – “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.“

Jeremiah 13:27 – “I have seen thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy whoredom, [and] thine abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem! wilt thou not be made clean? when [shall it] once [be]?“

Jeremiah 32:34 – “But they set their abominations in the house, which is called by my name, to defile it.“

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Jeremiah 44:22 – “So that the LORD could no longer bear, because of the evil of your doings, [and] because of the abominations which ye have committed; therefore is your land a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without an inhabitant, as at this day.”

Ezekiel 5:9 – “And I will do in thee that which I have not done, and whereunto I will not do any more the like, because of all thine abominations.“

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Ezekiel 5:11 – “Wherefore, [as] I live, saith the Lord GOD; Surely, because thou hast defiled my sanctuary with all thy detestable things, and with all thine abominations, therefore will I also diminish [thee]; neither shall mine eye spare, neither will I have any pity.”

Ezekiel 6:9 – “And they that escape of you shall remember me among the nations whither they shall be carried captives, because I am broken with their whorish heart, which hath departed from me, and with their eyes, which go a whoring after their idols: and they shall loathe themselves for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.”

Ezekiel 6:11 – “Thus saith the Lord GOD; Smite with thine hand, and stamp with thy foot, and say, Alas for all the evil abominations of the house of Israel! for they shall fall by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence.”

Ezekiel 7:3 – “Now [is] the end [come] upon thee, and I will send mine anger upon thee, and will judge thee according to thy ways, and will recompense upon thee all thine abominations.”

Ezekiel 7:4 – “And mine eye shall not spare thee, neither will I have pity: but I will recompense thy ways upon thee, and thine abominations shall be in the midst of thee: and ye shall know that I [am] the LORD.“

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Ezekiel 7:8 – “Now will I shortly pour out my fury upon thee, and accomplish mine anger upon thee: and I will judge thee according to thy ways, and will recompense thee for all thine abominations.”

Ezekiel 7:9 – “And mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: I will recompense thee according to thy ways and thine abominations [that] are in the midst of thee; and ye shall know that I [am] the LORD that smiteth.”

Ezekiel 7:20 – “As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty: but they made the images of their abominations [and] of their detestable things therein: therefore have I set it far from them.”

Ezekiel 8:6 – “He said furthermore unto me, Son of man, seest thou what they do? [even] the great abominations that the house of Israel committeth here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary? but turn thee yet again, [and] thou shalt see greater abominations.”

Ezekiel 8:9 – “And he said unto me, Go in, and behold the wicked abominations that they do here.“

Ezekiel 8:13 – “He said also unto me, Turn thee yet again, [and] thou shalt see greater abominations that they do.”

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Ezekiel 8:15 – “Then said he unto me, Hast thou seen [this], O son of man? turn thee yet again, [and] thou shalt see greater abominations than these.”

Ezekiel 8:17 – “Then he said unto me, Hast thou seen [this], O son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? for they have filled the land with violence, and have returned to provoke me to anger: and, lo, they put the branch to their nose.”

Ezekiel 11:18 – “And they shall come thither, and they shall take away all the detestable things thereof and all the abominations thereof from thence.“

Ezekiel 9:4 – “And the LORD said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof.”

Ezekiel 11:21 – “But [as for them] whose heart walketh after the heart of their detestable things and their abominations, I will recompense their way upon their own heads, saith the Lord GOD.”

Ezekiel 12:16 – “But I will leave a few men of them from the sword, from the famine, and from the pestilence; that they may declare all their abominations among the heathen whither they come; and they shall know that I [am] the LORD.”

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Ezekiel 14:6 – “Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Repent, and turn [yourselves] from your idols; and turn away your faces from all your abominations.”

Ezekiel 16:2 – “Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations,“

Ezekiel 16:22 – “And in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked and bare, [and] wast polluted in thy blood.”

Ezekiel 16:36 – “Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thy filthiness was poured out, and thy nakedness discovered through thy whoredoms with thy lovers, and with all the idols of thy abominations, and by the blood of thy children, which thou didst give unto them;“

Ezekiel 16:43 – “Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, but hast fretted me in all these [things]; behold, therefore I also will recompense thy way upon [thine] head, saith the Lord GOD: and thou shalt not commit this lewdness above all thine abominations.“

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Ezekiel 16:47 – “Yet hast thou not walked after their ways, nor done after their abominations: but, as [if that were] a very little [thing], thou wast corrupted more than they in all thy ways.”

Ezekiel 16:51 – “Neither hath Samaria committed half of thy sins; but thou hast multiplied thine abominations more than they, and hast justified thy sisters in all thine abominations which thou hast done.”

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Ezekiel 16:58 – “Thou hast borne thy lewdness and thine abominations, saith the LORD.”

Ezekiel 18:13 – “Hath given forth upon usury, and hath taken increase: shall he then live? he shall not live: he hath done all these abominations; he shall surely die; his blood shall be upon him.”

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Ezekiel 18:24 – “But when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, [and] doeth according to all the abominations that the wicked [man] doeth, shall he live? All his righteousness that he hath done shall not be mentioned: in his trespass that he hath trespassed, and in his sin that he hath sinned, in them shall he die.”

Ezekiel 20:4 – “Wilt thou judge them, son of man, wilt thou judge [them]? cause them to know the abominations of their fathers:“

Ezekiel 20:7 – “Then said I unto them, Cast ye away every man the abominations of his eyes, and defile not yourselves with the idols of Egypt: I [am] the LORD your God.”

Ezekiel 20:8 – “But they rebelled against me, and would not hearken unto me: they did not every man cast away the abominations of their eyes, neither did they forsake the idols of Egypt: then I said, I will pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.”

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Ezekiel 20:30 – “Wherefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Are ye polluted after the manner of your fathers? and commit ye whoredom after their abominations?“

Ezekiel 22:2 – “Now, thou son of man, wilt thou judge, wilt thou judge the bloody city? yea, thou shalt show her all her abominations.“

Ezekiel 23:36 – “The LORD said moreover unto me; Son of man, wilt thou judge Aholah and Aholibah? yea, declare unto them their abominations;“

Ezekiel 33:29 – “Then shall they know that I [am] the LORD, when I have laid the land most desolate because of all their abominations which they have committed.“

Ezekiel 36:31 – “Then shall ye remember your own evil ways, and your doings that [were] not good, and shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations.“

Ezekiel 43:8 – “In their setting of their threshold by my thresholds, and their post by my posts, and the wall between me and them, they have even defiled my holy name by their abominations that they have committed: wherefore I have consumed them in mine anger.“

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Ezekiel 44:6 – “And thou shalt say to the rebellious, [even] to the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; O ye house of Israel, let it suffice you of all your abominations,”

Ezekiel 44:7 – “In that ye have brought [into my sanctuary] strangers, uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to pollute it, [even] my house, when ye offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant because of all your abominations.”

Ezekiel 44:13 – “And they shall not come near unto me, to do the office of a priest unto me, nor to come near to any of my holy things, in the most holy [place]: but they shall bear their shame, and their abominations which they have committed.”

Daniel 9:27 – “And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make [it] desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.”

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Hosea 9:10 – “I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the firstripe in the fig tree at her first time: [but] they went to Baalpeor, and separated themselves unto [that] shame; and [their] abominations were according as they loved.“

Zecharia 9:7 – “And I will take away his blood out of his mouth, and his abominations from between his teeth: but he that remaineth, even he, [shall be] for our God, and he shall be as a governor in Judah, and Ekron as a Jebusite.”

Revelations 17:4 – “And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:“

Revelations 17:5 – “And upon her forehead [was] a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.”