Jeremiah 7 · Verse 30

Jeremiah 7:30

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.
Jeremiah 7:30, King James Version

Jeremiah 7:30 in other translations

BSBFor 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.
WEB“For the children of Judah have done that which is evil in my sight,” says the LORD. “They have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile it.
ASVFor 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.
YLTFor 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,
DARBYFor the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, saith Jehovah; they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile it.
BBEFor 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.
WebsterFor 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.

What does Jeremiah 7:30 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
30. set their abominations in the house--(Jr 32:34; 2Ki 21:4, 7; 23:4; Eze 8:5-14).

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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Jeremiah 7:29-34

In token both of sorrow and of slavery, Jerusalem must be degraded, and separated from God, as she had been separated to him. The heart is the place in which God has chosen to put his name; but if sin has the innermost and uppermost place there, we pollute the temple of the Lord. The destruction of Jerusalem appears here very terrible. The slain shall be many; they having made it the place of their sin. Evil pursues…

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Jeremiah 7:30 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

כִּֽי\־ki-forH3588
עָשׂ֨וּ'a.Suthey have doneH6213
בְנֵי\־ve.nei-[the] people ofH1121
יְהוּדָ֥הye.hu.DahJudahH3063
הָרַ֛עha.Ra'the evilH7451
בְּעֵינַ֖יbe.'ei.Naiin view myH5869
נְאֻום\־ne.'u.vm-[the] utterance ofH5002
יְהוָ֑הYah.wehYahwehH3068
שָׂ֣מוּSa.muthey have putH7760
שִׁקּֽוּצֵיהֶ֗םshi.ku.tzei.Hemdetestable things theirH8251
בַּבַּ֛יִתba.Ba.yitin the houseH1004
אֲשֶׁר\־'a.Sher-whichH834
נִקְרָא\־nik.ra'-it is calledH7121
שְׁמִ֥יshe.Miname myH8034
עָלָ֖יו'a.Lavon itH5921
לְטַמְּאֽוֹ\׃le.ta.me.'Oto make unclean itH2930

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Cross references for Jeremiah 7:30

  • Ezekiel 7:20

    As for the beauty of his ornament, 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.

  • Jeremiah 32:34

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

  • Daniel 9:27

    And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation 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 Kings 21:7

    And he set a graven image of the grove that 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, will I put my name for ever:

  • 2 Kings 21:4

    And he built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord said, In Jerusalem will I put my name.

  • 2 Chronicles 33:7

    And he set a carved image, the idol which he had made, in the house of God, of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen before all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:

  • 2 Chronicles 33:4-5

    Also he built altars in the house of the Lord, whereof the Lord had said, In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever. And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the Lord.

  • 2 Kings 23:4-6

    And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the door, to bring forth out of the temple of the Lord all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the grove, and for all the host of heaven: and he burned them without Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried the ashes of them unto Beth–el. And he put down 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 places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven. And he brought out the grove from the house of the Lord, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and stamped it small to powder, and cast the powder thereof upon the graves of the children of the people.

  • Ezekiel 8:5-17

    Then said he unto me, Son of man, lift up thine eyes now the way toward the north. So I lifted up mine eyes the way toward the north, and behold northward at the gate of the altar this image of jealousy in the entry. He said furthermore unto me, Son of man, seest thou what they do? even the great abominations that the house of Israel committeth here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary? but turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations. And he brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, behold a hole in the wall. Then said he unto me, Son of man, dig now in the wall: and when I had digged in the wall, behold a door. …

  • Jeremiah 23:11

    For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found their wickedness, saith the Lord.

  • Ezekiel 43:7-8

    And he said unto me, Son of man, 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 for ever, and my holy name, shall the house of Israel no more defile, neither they, nor their kings, by their whoredom, nor by the carcases of their kings in their high places. In their setting of their threshold by my thresholds, and their post by my posts, and the wall between me and them, they have even defiled my holy name by their abominations that they have committed: wherefore I have consumed them in mine anger.

  • 2 Kings 23:12

    And the altars that were on the top 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, did the king beat down, and brake them down from thence, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron.

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23:11; 32:34; 2Ki 21:4,7; 23:4-6,12; 2Ch 33:4,5,7,15; Eze 7:20
Eze 8:5-17; 43:7,8; Da 9:27

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Context

  • Jeremiah 7:29

    Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the Lord hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.

  • Jeremiah 7:30

    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.

  • Jeremiah 7:31

    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 commanded them not, neither came it into my heart.

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Jeremiah 7:30 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Porque los hijos de Judá han hecho lo malo ante mis ojos, dice Jehová; pusieron sus abominaciones en la casa sobre la cual mi nombre fué invocado, amancillándola.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Car les fils de Juda ont fait ce qui est mauvais à mes yeux, dit l’ Éternel; ils ont mis leurs abominations dans la maison qui est appelée de mon nom, pour la rendre impure.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Denn die Kinder Juda haben getan, was böse ist in meinen Augen, spricht Jehova; sie haben ihre Scheusale in das Haus gestellt, welches nach meinem Namen genannt ist, um es zu verunreinigen.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
quia fecerunt filii Juda malum in oculis meis, dicit Dominus. Posuerunt offendicula sua in domo in qua invocatum est nomen meum, ut polluerent eam: