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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.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Yahweh declares through Jeremiah to the people of Judah at a moment of national rejection following a command to cut off hair and raise a lamentation. The speech occurs as part of a temple sermon warning of impending judgment.
The words — עָשׂוּ (‘a.Su) translates literally as “they have done,” paired with בְּעֵינַי (be‘ēnay) for “in My sight,” grounding the verdict in direct divine observation. The conjunction כִּי (ki) functions causally as “for,” linking the indictment to the preceding pronouncement of forsaking.
The thread — The specific charge of placing abominations in the house bearing God’s Name reappears in Jeremiah 32:34 as a recurring indictment of Judah’s temple corruption. Ezekiel 7:20 and Daniel 9:27 extend the pattern by describing how sacred ornaments and covenant spaces are systematically defiled by idolatry.
Why it lands — The text asserts that physical worship sites lose their consecration when the inhabitants actively practice condemned rites. It requires the reader to acknowledge that institutional religion cannot neutralize the moral weight of actions performed under divine observation.
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The Hebrew words
King James 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.
Cross-references
- Jeremiah 32:34 They have placed their abominations in the house that bears My Name, and so have defiled it.
- Ezekiel 7:20 His beautiful ornaments they transformed into pride and used them to fashion their vile images and detestable idols. Therefore I will make these into something unclean for them.
- Daniel 9:27 And he will confirm a covenant with many for one week, but in the middle of the week he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And on the wing of the temple will come the abomination that causes desolation, until the decreed destruction is poured out upon him.”
- 2 Kings 21:4 Manasseh also built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, “In Jerusalem I will put My Name.”
- 2 Kings 21:7 Manasseh even took the carved Asherah pole he had made and set it up in the temple, of which the LORD had said to David and his son Solomon, “In this temple and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will establish My Name forever.
- 2 Chronicles 33:4 Manasseh also built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, “My Name will remain in Jerusalem forever.”
- 2 Chronicles 33:7 Manasseh even took the carved image he had made and set it up in the house of God, of which God had said to David and his son Solomon, “In this temple and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will establish My Name forever.
- 2 Kings 23:4 Then the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, the priests second in rank, and the doorkeepers to remove from the temple of the LORD all the articles made for Baal, Asherah, and all the host of heaven. And he burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron and carried their ashes to Bethel.
- 2 Kings 23:12 He pulled down the altars that the kings of Judah had set up on the roof near the upper chamber of Ahaz, and the altars that Manasseh had set up in the two courtyards of the house of the LORD. The king pulverized them there and threw their dust into the Kidron Valley.
- 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.