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Chapter 9
The Crisis of Mixed Marriages. When these matters had been concluded, the leaders approached me with this report: “Neither the Israelite laymen nor the priests nor the Levites have kept themselves separate from the peoples of the lands and their abominations—Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Jebusites, Ammonites, Moabites, Egyptians, and Amorites—
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which you gave through your servants the prophets: The land which you are entering to take as your possession is a land unclean with the filth of the peoples of the lands, with the abominations with which they have filled it from one end to the other by their uncleanness.
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to leave their sons uncircumcised, and to defile themselves with every kind of impurity and abomination;
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On the fifteenth day of the month Kislev, in the year one hundred and forty-five, the king erected the desolating abomination upon the altar of burnt offerings, and in the surrounding cities of Judah they built pagan altars.
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that they had pulled down the abomination which he had built upon the altar in Jerusalem; and that they had surrounded with high walls both the sanctuary, as it had been before, and his city of Beth-zur.
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To the Lord the devious are an abomination, but the upright are close to him.
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What the Lord Rejects
There are six things the Lord hates, yes, seven are an abomination to him;
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Chapter 11
False scales are an abomination to the Lord, but an honest weight, his delight.
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The crooked in heart are an abomination to the Lord, but those who walk blamelessly are his delight.
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Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord, but those who are truthful, his delight.
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In the path of justice is life, but the way of abomination leads to death.
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Desire fulfilled delights the soul, but turning from evil is an abomination to fools.
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The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.
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The way of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord, but he loves one who pursues justice.
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The schemes of the wicked are an abomination to the Lord, but gracious words are pure.
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Every proud heart is an abomination to the Lord; be assured that none will go unpunished.
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Wrongdoing is an abomination to kings, for by justice the throne endures.
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Whoever acquits the wicked, whoever condemns the just— both are an abomination to the Lord.
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Varying weights, varying measures, are both an abomination to the Lord.
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Varying weights are an abomination to the Lord, and false scales are not good.
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The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination, the more so when they offer it with bad intent.
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The scheme of a fool gains no acceptance, the scoffer is an abomination to the community.
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When they speak graciously, do not trust them, for seven abominations are in their hearts.
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Those who turn their ears from hearing instruction, even their prayer is an abomination.
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An abomination to the just, the evildoer; an abomination to the wicked, one whose way is straight.