Abomination – (תּוֹעֵבַה – Hebrew) – tow`ebah ► Abomination, detestable thing, something disgusting, an abhorrence, idolatry, an idol, from the root תָּעַב (ta’ab), meaning “to abhor” or “to detest.”
Full list….
• Genesis 43:32;
• Gen 46:34;
• Exod 8:26;
• Lev 18:21 – child sacrifice
• Lev 18:22 – homosexuality, sodomy
• Lev 18:23 – bestieality
• Lev 18:29
(full text – Lev_18:19-30
19‘Also you shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness during her menstrual impurity. 20‘You shall not have intercourse with your neighbor’s wife, to be defiled with her. 21‘You shall not give any of your offspring to offer them to Molech, nor shall you profane the name of your God; I am the LORD. 22‘You shall not lie with a male as one lies with a female; it is an abomination. 23‘Also you shall not have intercourse with any animal to be defiled with it, nor shall any woman stand before an animal to mate with it; it is a perversion.
24‘Do not defile yourselves by any of these things; for by all these the nations which I am casting out before you have become defiled. 25‘For the land has become defiled, therefore I have brought its punishment upon it, so the land has spewed out its inhabitants. 26‘But as for you, you are to keep My statutes and My judgments and shall not do any of these abominations, neither the native, nor the alien who sojourns among you 27(for the men of the land who have been before you have done all these abominations, and the land has become defiled); 28so that the land will not spew you out, should you defile it, as it has spewed out the nation which has been before you. 29‘For whoever does any of these abominations, those persons who do so shall be cut off from among their people. 30‘Thus you are to keep My charge, that you do not practice any of the abominable customs which have been practiced before you, so as not to defile yourselves with them; I am the LORD your God.’”
); 24‘Do not defile yourselves by any of these things; for by all these the nations which I am casting out before you have become defiled. 25‘For the land has become defiled, therefore I have brought its punishment upon it, so the land has spewed out its inhabitants. 26‘But as for you, you are to keep My statutes and My judgments and shall not do any of these abominations, neither the native, nor the alien who sojourns among you 27(for the men of the land who have been before you have done all these abominations, and the land has become defiled); 28so that the land will not spew you out, should you defile it, as it has spewed out the nation which has been before you. 29‘For whoever does any of these abominations, those persons who do so shall be cut off from among their people. 30‘Thus you are to keep My charge, that you do not practice any of the abominable customs which have been practiced before you, so as not to defile yourselves with them; I am the LORD your God.’”
• Lev 20:13 – homosexuality
• Deut 7:25, 26 – idol worship
• Deut 12:31 – child sacrifice
• Deut 13:14;
• Deut 14:3;
• Deut 17:1;
• Deut 17:4;
• Deut 18:10 – child sacrifice, witchcraft
• Deut 18:11 – sorcery
• Deut 18:12;
(full text – Deut_18:9-12
9“When you enter the land which the LORD your God gives you, you shall not learn to imitate the detestable things of those nations. 10“There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, one who uses divination, one who practices witchcraft, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer, 11or one who casts a spell, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who calls up the dead. 12“For whoever does these things is detestable to the LORD and because of these detestable things the LORD your God will drive them out before you.
) • Deut 20:18;
• Deut 22:5 – inappropriate attire.
• Deut 23:18;
• Deut 24:4;
• Deut 25:16;
(full text – Deut_25:13-16
13“You shall not have in your bag differing weights, a large and a small. 14“You shall not have in your house differing measures, a large and a small. 15“You shall have a full and just weight; you shall have a full and just measure, that your days may be prolonged in the land which the LORD your God gives you. 16“For everyone who does these things, everyone who acts unjustly is an abomination to the LORD your God.
)• Deut 27:15 – making idols
• Deut 32:16 – strange gods
• 1Kings 14:24 – male cult prostitutes
• 2Kings 16:3 – child sacrifice
• 2Kings 21:2;
• 2Kings 21:11;
• 2Kings 23:13 – idol worship
• 2Chron 28:3 – child sacrifice
• 2Chron 33:2;
• 2Chron 34:33 – repentance
• 2Chron 36:8;
• 2Chron 36:14;
• Ezra 9:1 – intermarriage
(full text – Ezra_9:1-2
1Now when these things had been completed, the princes approached me, saying, “The people of Israel and the priests and the Levites have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands, according to their abominations, those of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians and the Amorites. 2“For they have taken some of their daughters as wives for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy race has intermingled with the peoples of the lands; indeed, the hands of the princes and the rulers have been foremost in this unfaithfulness.”
) • Ezra 9:11
• Ezra 9:14;
• Psalm 88:8;
• Prov 3:32 – deviousness
• Prov 6:16 – evil heart
(full text – Prov_6:16-19
16There are six things which the LORD hates,
Yes, seven which are an abomination to Him:
17Haughty eyes, a lying tongue,
And hands that shed innocent blood,
18A heart that devises wicked plans,
Feet that run rapidly to evil,
19A false witness who utters lies,
And one who spreads strife among brothers.
)Yes, seven which are an abomination to Him:
17Haughty eyes, a lying tongue,
And hands that shed innocent blood,
18A heart that devises wicked plans,
Feet that run rapidly to evil,
19A false witness who utters lies,
And one who spreads strife among brothers.
• Prov 8:7;
• Prov 11:1 – false balance
• Prov 11:20 – perverse heart
• Prov 12:22 – lying lips
• Prov 13:19 – repentance to fools.
• Prov 15:8;
• Prov 15:9 – wickedness
• Prov 15:26 – evil plans
• Prov 16:5 – pride
• Prov 16:12 – wicked acts
• Prov 17:15 – a fine line to walk.
• Prov 20:10 – differing measures
• Prov 20:23 – differing weights
• Prov 21:27;
• Prov 24:9;
• Prov 26:24-25 – deceitful heart
(full text – Prov_26:24-26
24He who hates disguises it with his lips,
But he lays up deceit in his heart.
25When he speaks graciously, do not believe him,
For there are seven abominations in his heart.
26Though his hatred covers itself with guile,
His wickedness will be revealed before the assembly.
)But he lays up deceit in his heart.
25When he speaks graciously, do not believe him,
For there are seven abominations in his heart.
26Though his hatred covers itself with guile,
His wickedness will be revealed before the assembly.
• Prov 28:9 – we have all been there.
• Prov 29:27 – unjust men
• Isa 1:13;
• Isa 41:24;
• Isa 44:19;
• Jer 2:7;
• Jer 6:15 – unashamed decadence
• Jer 7:10 – deception toward God
(full text – Jer_7:8-11
8“Behold, you are trusting in deceptive words to no avail. 9“Will you steal, murder, and commit adultery and swear falsely, and offer sacrifices to Baal and walk after other gods that you have not known, 10then come and stand before Me in this house, which is called by My name, and say, ‘We are delivered!’—that you may do all these abominations? 11“Has this house, which is called by My name, become a den of robbers in your sight? Behold, I, even I, have seen it,” declares the LORD.
) • Jer 8:12 – unashamed of sin
• Jer 16:18;
• Jer 32:35 – child sacrifice
• Jer 44:4;
• Jer 44:22;
• Ezek 5:9-10 – child sacrifice
(full text – Ezek_5:9-11
9‘And because of all your abominations, I will do among you what I have not done, and the like of which I will never do again. 10‘Therefore, fathers will eat their sons among you, and sons will eat their fathers; for I will execute judgments on you and scatter all your remnant to every wind. 11‘So as I live,’ declares the Lord GOD, ‘surely, because you have defiled My sanctuary with all your detestable idols and with all your abominations, therefore I will also withdraw, and My eye will have no pity and I will not spare.
) • Ezek 6:9, 11 – recompense
(full text – Ezek_6:9-11
9“Then those of you who escape will remember Me among the nations to which they will be carried captive, how I have been hurt by their adulterous hearts which turned away from Me, and by their eyes which played the harlot after their idols; and they will loathe themselves in their own sight for the evils which they have committed, for all their abominations. 10“Then they will know that I am the LORD; I have not said in vain that I would inflict this disaster on them.”’
11“Thus says the Lord GOD, ‘Clap your hand, stamp your foot and say, “Alas, because of all the evil abominations of the house of Israel, which will fall by sword, famine and plague!
)11“Thus says the Lord GOD, ‘Clap your hand, stamp your foot and say, “Alas, because of all the evil abominations of the house of Israel, which will fall by sword, famine and plague!
• Ezek 7:3, 4, 8, 9 – judgement
(full text – Ezek_7:3-9
3‘Now the end is upon you, and I will send My anger against you; I will judge you according to your ways and bring all your abominations upon you. 4‘For My eye will have no pity on you, nor will I spare you, but I will bring your ways upon you, and your abominations will be among you; then you will know that I am the LORD!’
5“Thus says the Lord GOD, ‘A disaster, unique disaster, behold it is coming! 6‘An end is coming; the end has come! It has awakened against you; behold, it has come! 7‘Your doom has come to you, O inhabitant of the land. The time has come, the day is near—tumult rather than joyful shouting on the mountains. 8‘Now I will shortly pour out My wrath on you and spend My anger against you; judge you according to your ways and bring on you all your abominations. 9‘My eye will show no pity nor will I spare. I will repay you according to your ways, while your abominations are in your midst; then you will know that I, the LORD, do the smiting.
) 5“Thus says the Lord GOD, ‘A disaster, unique disaster, behold it is coming! 6‘An end is coming; the end has come! It has awakened against you; behold, it has come! 7‘Your doom has come to you, O inhabitant of the land. The time has come, the day is near—tumult rather than joyful shouting on the mountains. 8‘Now I will shortly pour out My wrath on you and spend My anger against you; judge you according to your ways and bring on you all your abominations. 9‘My eye will show no pity nor will I spare. I will repay you according to your ways, while your abominations are in your midst; then you will know that I, the LORD, do the smiting.
• Ezek 7:20;
• Ezek 8:6;
• Ezek 8:9;
• Ezek 8:13;
• Ezek 8:15;
• Ezek 8:17;
• Ezek 9:4 – some sigh, groan over sin
• Ezek 11:18;
• Ezek 11:21 – judgement
• Ezek 12:16 – some spared and exiled
• Ezek 14:6 – repent
• Ezek 16:2 – tell of their abominations
• Ezek 16:22;
• Ezek 16:36;
• Ezek 16:43;
• Ezek 16:47;
• Ezek 16:50 – haughty before God.
• Ezek 16:51 – increasing sin
• Ezek 16:58;
• Ezek 18:10-11;
• Ezek 18:12, 13;
• Ezek 18:24 only true repentance saves
(full text – Ezek_18:23-32
23“Do I have any pleasure in the death of the wicked,” declares the Lord GOD, “rather than that he should turn from his ways and live?
24“But when a righteous man turns away from his righteousness, commits iniquity and does according to all the abominations that a wicked man does, will he live? All his righteous deeds which he has done will not be remembered for his treachery which he has committed and his sin which he has committed; for them he will die. 25“Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not right.’ Hear now, O house of Israel! Is My way not right? Is it not your ways that are not right? 26“When a righteous man turns away from his righteousness, commits iniquity and dies because of it, for his iniquity which he has committed he will die. 27“Again, when a wicked man turns away from his wickedness which he has committed and practices justice and righteousness, he will save his life. 28“Because he considered and turned away from all his transgressions which he had committed, he shall surely live; he shall not die. 29“But the house of Israel says, ‘The way of the Lord is not right.’ Are My ways not right, O house of Israel? Is it not your ways that are not right?
30“Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, each according to his conduct,” declares the Lord GOD. “Repent and turn away from all your transgressions, so that iniquity may not become a stumbling block to you. 31“Cast away from you all your transgressions which you have committed and make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit! For why will you die, O house of Israel? 32“For I have no pleasure in the death of anyone who dies,” declares the Lord GOD. “Therefore, repent and live.”
) 24“But when a righteous man turns away from his righteousness, commits iniquity and does according to all the abominations that a wicked man does, will he live? All his righteous deeds which he has done will not be remembered for his treachery which he has committed and his sin which he has committed; for them he will die. 25“Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not right.’ Hear now, O house of Israel! Is My way not right? Is it not your ways that are not right? 26“When a righteous man turns away from his righteousness, commits iniquity and dies because of it, for his iniquity which he has committed he will die. 27“Again, when a wicked man turns away from his wickedness which he has committed and practices justice and righteousness, he will save his life. 28“Because he considered and turned away from all his transgressions which he had committed, he shall surely live; he shall not die. 29“But the house of Israel says, ‘The way of the Lord is not right.’ Are My ways not right, O house of Israel? Is it not your ways that are not right?
30“Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, each according to his conduct,” declares the Lord GOD. “Repent and turn away from all your transgressions, so that iniquity may not become a stumbling block to you. 31“Cast away from you all your transgressions which you have committed and make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit! For why will you die, O house of Israel? 32“For I have no pleasure in the death of anyone who dies,” declares the Lord GOD. “Therefore, repent and live.”
• Ezek 20:4;
• Ezek 22:2;
• Ezek 22:11;
• Ezek 23:36;
• Ezek 33:26;
• Ezek 33:29;
• Ezek 36:31;
• Ezek 43:8;
• Ezek 44:6;
• Ezek 44:7;
• Ezek 44:13;
• Mal 2:11;
Abomination – (βδέλυγμα – Greek) – bdelugma ► abominable thing, an accursed thing, actions that are abhorrent to God, something that is detestable or loathsome, particularly in the sight of God, conveys a strong sense of revulsion and is used to describe actions or objects that are utterly repugnant to divine holiness, from word “to reek with stench”.
Noun form….
• Matt 24:15 … related…
► Dan 9:27 – (full text – Dan_9:27
27“And he will make a firm covenant with the many for one week, but in the middle of the week he will put a stop to sacrifice and grain offering; and on the wing of abominations will come one who makes desolate, even until a complete destruction, one that is decreed, is poured out on the one who makes desolate.”
)► Dan 11:31,
► Dan 12:11;
• Mark 13:14
• Luke 16:15
• Rev 17:4
• Rev 17:5
• Rev 21:27
Verb form…
• Rom 2:22;
• Titus 1:16;
• Rev 21:8;
Other Related Verses:
• 1Cor 6:9-11 – (full text – 1Cor_6:9-11
9Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, 10nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God. 11Such were some of you; but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.
)• 1Cor 6:18;