Jeremiah 7:30

KJV1611 – Modern English

For the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, says the LORD: they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile it.

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  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    For the people of Judah have done evil in my sight, declares the LORD. They have set up their detestable idols in the house that bears my name to defile it.

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard 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.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    For the children{H1121} of Judah{H3063} have done{H6213} that which is evil{H7451} in my sight,{H5869} saith{H5002} Jehovah:{H3068} they have set{H7760} their abominations{H8251} in the house{H1004} which is called{H7121} by my name,{H8034} to defile{H2930} it.

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    For the children{H1121} of Judah{H3063} have done{H6213}{(H8804)} evil{H7451} in my sight{H5869}, saith{H5002}{(H8803)} the LORD{H3068}: they have set{H7760}{(H8804)} their abominations{H8251} in the house{H1004} which is called{H7121}{(H8738)} by my name{H8034}, to pollute{H2930}{(H8763)} it.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    For the children of Iuda haue done euell in my sight, saieth the LORDE. They haue set vp their abhominacions, in the house yt hath my name, and haue defyled it.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    For the children of Iudah haue done euill in my sight, sayth the Lorde: they haue set their abominations in the House, whereupon my Name is called, to pollute it.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    For the chyldren of Iuda haue done euyll in my sight, saith the Lorde: they haue set vp their abhominations in the house that hath my name, and haue defiled it:

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    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.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    For the children of Judah have done that which is evil in my sight, says Yahweh: they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile it.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    For the sons of Judah Have done the evil thing in Mine eyes, An affirmation of Jehovah, They have set their abominations in the house On which My name is called -- to defile it,

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    For the children of Judah have done that which is evil in my sight, saith Jehovah: they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile it.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    For the children of Judah have done that which is evil in my sight, saith Jehovah: they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile it.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    For the children of Judah have done what is evil in my eyes, says the Lord: they have put their disgusting images in the house which is named by my name, making it unclean.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    For the children of Judah have done that which is evil in my sight, says Yahweh: they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile it.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    The LORD says,“I have rejected them because the people of Judah have done what I consider evil. They have set up their disgusting idols in the temple which I have claimed for my own and have defiled it.

Referenced Verses

  • Jer 32:34 : 34 But they set their abominations in the house, which is called by my name, to defile it.
  • Ezek 7:20 : 20 As for the beauty of his ornaments, 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.
  • Dan 9:27 : 27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the middle of the week, he shall cause the sacrifice and the offering 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.
  • 2 Kgs 21:4 : 4 And he built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, 'In Jerusalem I will put my name.'
  • 2 Kgs 21:7 : 7 And he set up the carved image of the Asherah he had made, in the house of which the LORD said to David and to Solomon his son, 'In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all tribes of Israel, I will put my name forever:'
  • 2 Chr 33:4-5 : 4 He also built altars in the house of the LORD, where the LORD had said, 'In Jerusalem shall my name be forever.' 5 And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD.
  • 2 Chr 33:7 : 7 And he set a carved image, the idol he had made, in the house of God, of which God had said to David and Solomon his son, 'In this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen before all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name forever.'
  • 2 Chr 33:15 : 15 And he removed the foreign gods and the idol from the house of the LORD, and all the altars he had built on the hill of the house of the LORD and in Jerusalem, and cast them out of the city.
  • Jer 23:11 : 11 For both prophet and priest are profane. Yes, in my house I have found their wickedness, says the LORD.
  • 2 Kgs 23:4-6 : 4 And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the door, to bring out of the temple of the LORD all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the Asherah, and for all the host of heaven. And he burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried their ashes to Bethel. 5 And he removed the idolatrous priests whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah and in the areas around Jerusalem, those also that burned incense to Baal, to the sun, to the moon, to the planets, and to all the host of heaven. 6 And he brought out the Asherah from the house of the LORD, outside Jerusalem, to the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, ground it to powder, and cast its powder on the graves of the common people.
  • 2 Kgs 23:12 : 12 And the altars that were on the roof of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the LORD, the king broke down and smashed them there, and cast their dust into the brook Kidron.
  • Ezek 8:5-9 : 5 Then he said to me, Son of man, lift up your eyes now toward the north. So I lifted up my eyes toward the north, and behold, northward at the gate of the altar this image of jealousy in the entry. 6 He said furthermore to me, Son of man, do you see what they do? even the great abominations that the house of Israel commits here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary? but turn yet again, and you shall see greater abominations. 7 And he brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, behold, a hole in the wall. 8 Then he said to me, Son of man, dig now in the wall: and when I had dug in the wall, behold, a door. 9 And he said to me, Go in, and behold the wicked abominations that they do here. 10 So I went in and saw; and behold, every form of creeping things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, portrayed upon the wall all around. 11 And there stood before them seventy men of the elders of the house of Israel, and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan, with every man his censer in his hand; and a thick cloud of incense went up. 12 Then he said to me, Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the chambers of his imagery? for they say, The LORD does not see us; the LORD has forsaken the earth. 13 He said also to me, Turn yet again, and you shall see greater abominations that they do. 14 Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the LORD'S house which was toward the north; and, behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz. 15 Then he said to me, Have you seen this, O son of man? turn yet again, and you shall see greater abominations than these. 16 And he brought me into the inner court of the LORD'S house, and, behold, at the door of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men, with their backs toward the temple of the LORD, and their faces toward the east; and they worshipped the sun toward the east. 17 Then he said to me, Have you seen this, O son of man? Is it a trivial 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.
  • Ezek 43:7-8 : 7 And he said to me, Son of man, this is the place of my throne and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel forever; and the house of Israel shall no longer defile my holy name, neither they nor their kings, by their harlotry or by the corpses of their kings on their high places. 8 By setting their threshold by my threshold, and their doorpost by my doorpost, with only a wall between me and them, they have defiled my holy name by their abominations that they have committed; therefore I have consumed them in my anger.

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

    35 And they built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire to Molech; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.

  • Jer 32:30-32
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    81%

    30 For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have only done evil before me from their youth: for the children of Israel have only provoked me to anger with the work of their hands, says the LORD.

    31 For this city has been to me a provocation of my anger and of my fury from the day that they built it even to this day; that I should remove it from before my face,

    32 Because of all the evil of the children of Israel and of the children of Judah, which they have done to provoke me to anger, they, their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets, and the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

  • Jer 7:10-12
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    80%

    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?

    11 Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, even I have seen it, says the LORD.

    12 But go now to my place which was in Shiloh, where I set my name at first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel.

  • Ezek 23:37-39
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    78%

    37 That they have committed adultery, and blood is on their hands, and with their idols have they committed adultery, and have also caused their sons, whom they bore to me, to pass through the fire, to devour them.

    38 Moreover this they have done to me: they have defiled my sanctuary on the same day, and have profaned my sabbaths.

    39 For when they had slain their children to their idols, then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it; and, behold, thus have they done in the midst of my house.

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    2 verses
    78%

    20 As for the beauty of his ornaments, 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.

    21 And I will give it into the hands of strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall pollute it.

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    20 Then I will uproot them from My land which I have given them; and this house, which I have sanctified for My name, I will cast out of My sight, and will make it a proverb and a byword among all nations.

    21 And this house, which is exalted, shall be an astonishment to everyone who passes by it; so that they will say, Why has the LORD done this to this land and to this house?

  • Jer 7:31
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    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 I did not command, nor did it enter into my heart.

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    11 For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me, says the LORD.

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    14 Moreover, all the leaders of the priests and the people transgressed greatly after all the abominations of the nations, and polluted the house of the LORD which he had sanctified in Jerusalem.

  • Jer 1:16
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    16 And I will utter My judgments against them concerning all their wickedness, who have forsaken Me, and have burned incense to other gods, and worshipped the works of their own hands.

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    7 The Lord has cast off His altar, He has abhorred His sanctuary, He has given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; they have made a noise in the house of the Lord, as in the day of a solemn feast.

  • Jer 7:14
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    14 Therefore I will do unto this house, which is called by my name, in which you trust, and to the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh.

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    7 When you brought into my sanctuary strangers, uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to defile it, even my house, when you offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they broke my covenant because of all your abominations.

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    7 You offer defiled bread upon my altar; and you say, How have we polluted you? In that you say, The table of the LORD is contemptible.

  • Jer 19:4
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    4 Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it to other gods, whom neither they nor their fathers have known, nor the kings of Judah, and have filled this place with the blood of innocents;

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    75%

    13 And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, shall be defiled like the place of Tophet, because of all the houses upon whose roofs they have burned incense to all the host of heaven, and have poured out drink offerings to other gods.

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    75%

    29 Cut off your hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the LORD has rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.

  • 2 Kgs 23:27
    75%

    27 And the LORD said, I will also remove Judah out of my sight, as I have removed Israel, and will cast off this city Jerusalem which I have chosen, and the house of which I said, My name shall be there.

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    11 For both prophet and priest are profane. Yes, in my house I have found their wickedness, says the LORD.

  • 2 Chr 29:6-7
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    75%

    6 For our fathers have trespassed, and done evil in the eyes of the LORD our God, and have forsaken Him, and turned away from the dwelling place of the LORD, and turned their backs.

    7 They have also shut up the doors of the porch, put out the lamps, and have not burned incense nor offered burnt offerings in the holy place to the God of Israel.

  • Jer 44:6
    75%

    6 Therefore my fury and my anger was poured forth, and kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; and they are wasted and desolate, as at this day.

  • Jer 11:17
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    17 For the LORD of hosts, who planted you, has pronounced evil against you for the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have done against themselves to provoke me to anger in offering incense to Baal.

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    75%

    11 Judah has dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah has profaned the holiness of the LORD which he loved, and has married the daughter of a foreign god.

  • Ezek 20:30
    74%

    30 Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord GOD; Are you polluted after the manner of your fathers? and commit you harlotry after their abominations?

  • Isa 3:8
    74%

    8 For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen, because their speech and their actions are against the LORD, to provoke the eyes of His glory.

  • 2 Kgs 22:16-17
    2 verses
    74%

    16 Thus says the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon its inhabitants, all the words of the book which the king of Judah has read:

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  • 2 Chr 34:25
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    25 Because they have forsaken me and have burned incense to other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands; therefore my wrath shall be poured out upon this place, and shall not be quenched.

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    11 There they burned incense on all the high places, as the nations had done whom the LORD carried away before them; and they did wicked things to provoke the LORD to anger.

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    17 They caused their sons and daughters to pass through the fire, practiced divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.

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