Bible Verses About Abomination
This collection includes 136 passages about Abomination. Copy a verse or open its chapter for context.
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And if any of the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings be eaten at all on the third day, it shall not be accepted, neither shall it be imputed unto him that offereth it: it shall be an abomination, and the soul that eateth of it shall bear his iniquity.
Reading context: Eating peace offering on third day is detestable/unacceptable; literal ritual abomination.
Scripture Passages
And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any living thing which is in the waters, they shall be an abomination unto you:
Reading context: Dietary uncleanness; literal abomination term, secondary to moral abomination.
They shall be even an abomination unto you; ye shall not eat of their flesh, but ye shall have their carcases in abomination.
Reading context: Repeats dietary abomination; unclean water creatures not to be eaten.
Whatsoever hath no fins nor scales in the waters, that shall be an abomination unto you.
Reading context: Same dietary rule; literal abomination for water creatures without fins/scales.
And these are they which ye shall have in abomination among the fowls; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray,
Reading context: Unclean birds called abomination; dietary purity list.
All fowls that creep, going upon all four, shall be an abomination unto you.
Reading context: Creeping fowls called abomination; dietary purity regulation.
But all other flying creeping things, which have four feet, shall be an abomination unto you.
Reading context: Flying creeping things called abomination; dietary prohibition.
And every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth shall be an abomination; it shall not be eaten.
Reading context: Creeping things called abomination; not to be eaten.
Whatsoever goeth upon the belly, and whatsoever goeth upon all four, or whatsoever hath more feet among all creeping things that creep upon the earth, them ye shall not eat; for they are an abomination.
Reading context: Creeping things called abomination; dietary prohibition repeated.
Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
Reading context: Homosexual act explicitly called abomination; central moral abomination text.
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:
Reading context: Commands against committing these abominations; refers to sexual sins in context.
(For all these abominations have the men of the land done, which were before you, and the land is defiled;)
Reading context: Nations committed these abominations; same moral/sexual abomination context.
For whosoever shall commit any of these abominations, even the souls that commit them shall be cut off from among their people.
Reading context: Those committing these abominations cut off; same moral/sexual abomination context.
If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
Reading context: Homosexual act called abomination; central moral abomination text.
The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not desire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee, lest thou be snared therein: for it is an abomination to the Lord thy God.
Reading context: Idolatrous graven images are abomination to the Lord; central idolatry text.
Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thine house, lest thou be a cursed thing like it: but thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it; for it is a cursed thing.
Reading context: Bringing abomination into house makes it cursed; idolatry context.
Thou shalt not do so unto the Lord thy God: for every abomination to the Lord, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods.
Reading context: Every abomination to the Lord, including child sacrifice, done to false gods.
Then shalt thou enquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought among you;
Reading context: Idolatry in an Israelite city is called an abomination wrought among them, fitting the topic.
Thou shalt not sacrifice unto the Lord thy God any bullock, or sheep, wherein is blemish, or any evilfavouredness: for that is an abomination unto the Lord thy God.
Reading context: A blemished sacrifice is explicitly called an abomination unto the Lord.
And it be told thee, and thou hast heard of it, and enquired diligently, and, behold, it be true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in Israel:
Reading context: Idolatrous worship in Israel is called an abomination wrought in Israel.
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.
Reading context: The occult practices of the nations are called their abominations.
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.
Reading context: These practices are an abomination to the Lord and the reason nations are driven out.
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.
Reading context: The nations' idolatrous practices are called their abominations, which Israel must not learn.
The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman’s garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the Lord thy God.
Reading context: Cross-dressing is explicitly called abomination unto the Lord thy God.
Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog, into the house of the Lord thy God for any vow: for even both these are abomination unto the Lord thy God.
Reading context: Bringing whore's hire or dog's price into God's house is called abomination unto the Lord.
Her former husband, which sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination before the Lord: and thou shalt not cause the land to sin, which the Lord thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.
Reading context: Remarrying a former husband after defilement is called abomination before the Lord.
For all that do such things, and all that do unrighteously, are an abomination unto the Lord thy God.
Reading context: Unrighteous dealings are explicitly called an abomination unto the Lord thy God.
Cursed be the man that maketh any graven or molten image, an abomination unto the Lord, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and putteth it in a secret place. And all the people shall answer and say, Amen.
Reading context: A graven or molten image is called an abomination unto the Lord.
And ye have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them:)
Reading context: The nations' idols are called their abominations, warning Israel against turning away.
They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger.
Reading context: Strange gods are called abominations that provoked the Lord to anger.
For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.
Reading context: Milcom is called the abomination of the Ammonites, an idol detestable in God's sight.
Then did Solomon build an high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, in the hill that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abomination of the children of Ammon.
Reading context: Chemosh and Molech are called abominations, identifying detestable idols.
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.
Reading context: Judah followed the abominations of the nations, including sodomites in the land.
But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yea, and made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the heathen, whom the Lord cast out from before the children of Israel.
Reading context: Ahaz followed the abominations of the heathen, including child sacrifice.
And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, after the abominations of the heathen, whom the Lord cast out before the children of Israel.
Reading context: Manasseh did evil after the abominations of the heathen nations.
Because Manasseh king of Judah hath done these abominations, and hath done wickedly above all that the Amorites did, which were before him, and hath made Judah also to sin with his idols:
Reading context: Manasseh's idolatry and wickedness are called abominations done by him.
And the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had builded for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile.
Reading context: Names foreign gods/idols as abominations; Josiah defiles their high places.
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.
Reading context: Josiah removes all detestable idolatrous objects and practices from Judah.
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.
Reading context: Ahaz imitates the detestable heathen practices, including child sacrifice.
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.
Reading context: Manasseh repeats the detestable practices of the nations driven out before Israel.
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.
Reading context: Josiah removes abominations from Israel's territories and leads covenant service.
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- Leviticus 7:18
- Leviticus 11:10
- Leviticus 11:11
- Leviticus 11:12
- Leviticus 11:13
- Leviticus 11:20
- Leviticus 11:23
- Leviticus 11:41
- Leviticus 11:42
- Leviticus 18:22
- Leviticus 18:26
- Leviticus 18:27
- Leviticus 18:29
- Leviticus 20:13
- Deuteronomy 7:25
- Deuteronomy 7:26
- Deuteronomy 12:31
- Deuteronomy 13:14
- Deuteronomy 17:1
- Deuteronomy 17:4
- Deuteronomy 18:9
- Deuteronomy 18:12
- Deuteronomy 20:18
- Deuteronomy 22:5
- Deuteronomy 23:18
- Deuteronomy 24:4
- Deuteronomy 25:16
- Deuteronomy 27:15
- Deuteronomy 29:17
- Deuteronomy 32:16
- 1 Kings 11:5
- 1 Kings 11:7
- 1 Kings 14:24
- 2 Kings 16:3
- 2 Kings 21:2
- 2 Kings 21:11
- 2 Kings 23:13
- 2 Kings 23:24
- 2 Chronicles 28:3
- 2 Chronicles 33:2
- 2 Chronicles 34:33
- 2 Chronicles 36:8
- 2 Chronicles 36:14
- Ezra 9:1
- Ezra 9:11
- Ezra 9:14
- Proverbs 3:32
- Proverbs 6:16
- Proverbs 8:7
- Proverbs 11:1
- Proverbs 11:20
- Proverbs 12:22
- Proverbs 15:8
- Proverbs 15:9
- Proverbs 15:26
- Proverbs 16:5
- Proverbs 16:12
- Proverbs 17:15
- Proverbs 20:10
- Proverbs 20:23
- Proverbs 21:27
- Proverbs 24:9
- Proverbs 26:25
- Proverbs 28:9
- Proverbs 29:27
- Isaiah 1:13
- Isaiah 41:24
- Isaiah 44:19
- Isaiah 66:3
- Isaiah 66:17
- Jeremiah 2:7
- Jeremiah 4:1
- Jeremiah 6:15
- Jeremiah 7:10
- Jeremiah 7:30
- Jeremiah 8:12
- Jeremiah 13:27
- Jeremiah 32:34
- Jeremiah 32:35
- Jeremiah 44:22
- Ezekiel 5:9
- Ezekiel 5:11
- Ezekiel 6:9
- Ezekiel 6:11
- Ezekiel 7:3
- Ezekiel 7:4
- Ezekiel 7:8
- Ezekiel 7:9
- Ezekiel 7:20
- Ezekiel 8:6
- Ezekiel 8:9
- Ezekiel 8:13
- Ezekiel 8:15
- Ezekiel 8:17
- Ezekiel 9:4
- Ezekiel 11:18
- Ezekiel 11:21
- Ezekiel 12:16
- Ezekiel 14:6
- Ezekiel 16:2
- Ezekiel 16:22
- Ezekiel 16:36
- Ezekiel 16:43
- Ezekiel 16:47
- Ezekiel 16:50
- Ezekiel 16:51
- Ezekiel 16:58
- Ezekiel 18:12
- Ezekiel 18:13
- Ezekiel 18:24
- Ezekiel 20:4
- Ezekiel 20:7
- Ezekiel 20:8
- Ezekiel 20:30
- Ezekiel 22:2
- Ezekiel 22:11
- Ezekiel 23:36
- Ezekiel 33:26
- Ezekiel 33:29
- Ezekiel 36:31
- Ezekiel 43:8
- Ezekiel 44:6
- Ezekiel 44:7
- Ezekiel 44:13
- Daniel 9:27
- Daniel 11:31
- Daniel 12:11
- Hosea 9:10
- Zechariah 9:7
- Malachi 2:11
- Matthew 24:15
- Mark 13:14
- Luke 16:15
- Revelation 17:4
- Revelation 17:5
- Revelation 21:27
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