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Jeremiah 32:34

Sin

32 because of all the evil the children of Israel and of Judah have done to provoke Me to anger—they, their kings, their officials, their priests and prophets, the men of Judah, and the residents of Jerusalem.

33 They have turned their backs to Me and not their faces. Though I taught them again and again, they would not listen or respond to discipline.

They have placed their abominations in the house that bears My Name, and so have defiled it.

35 They have built the high places of Baal in the Valley of Hinnom to make their sons and daughters pass through the fire to Molech—something I never commanded them, nor had it ever entered My mind, that they should commit such an abomination and cause Judah to sin.

36 Now therefore, about this city of which you say, ‘It will be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon by sword and famine and plague,’ this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says:

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This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
They have placed their abominations in the house that bears My Name, and so have defiled it.
KJV
But they set their abominations in the house, which is called by my name, to defile it.
WEB
But they set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile it.
ASV
But they set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile it.
DARBY
And they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile it;
BLB
And they set their abominations in the house upon which My name is called, to defile it.
ÅB
Men de satte sine avskyelige ting i det hus som er kalt med mitt navn, og gjorde det urent.
OTB
De satte opp sine avskyelige bilder i huset som bærer Mitt navn og vanhelliget det.
B1930
Men de satte sine vederstyggelige ting i det hus som er kalt med mitt navn, og gjorde det urent.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Jeremiah 7:30

    For the people of Judah have done evil in My sight, declares the LORD. They have set up their abominations in the house that bears My Name, and so have defiled it.

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  • Ezekiel 8:5–16

    “Son of man,” He said to me, “now lift up your eyes to the north.” So I lifted up my eyes to the north, and in the entrance north of the Altar Gate I saw this idol of jealousy.

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  • Jeremiah 23:11

    “For both prophet and priest are ungodly; even in My house I have found their wickedness,” declares the LORD.

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  • 2 Kings 21:4–7

    Manasseh also built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, “In Jerusalem I will put My Name.”

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  • 2 Kings 23:6

    He brought the Asherah pole from the house of the LORD to the Kidron Valley outside Jerusalem, and there he burned it, ground it to powder, and threw its dust on the graves of the common people.

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  • 2 Chronicles 33:15

    He removed the foreign gods and the idol from the house of the LORD, along with all the altars he had built on the temple mount and in Jerusalem, and he dumped them outside the city.

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  • 2 Chronicles 33:4–7

    Manasseh also built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, “My Name will remain in Jerusalem forever.”

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