Jeremiah 32:34

34 They set up their vile images in the house that bears my Name and defiled it.

Jeremiah 32:34 in Other Translations

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

34 They set up their abominations in the house that is called by my name, to defile it.

34 They have set up their abominable idols right in my own Temple, defiling it.

34 Why, they even set up obscene god and goddess statues in the Temple built in my honor - an outrageous desecration!

34 They have placed their detestable things in the house that is called by My name and have defiled it.

Jeremiah 32:34 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 32:34

But they set their abominations
Their idols, which were abominable to the Lord, and ought to have been so to them: these they placed in the house (which is called by my name), to defile it;
in the temple; as by Ahaz, Manasseh, and others: see ( Jeremiah 7:30 ) .

Jeremiah 32:34 In-Context

32 The people of Israel and Judah have provoked me by all the evil they have done—they, their kings and officials, their priests and prophets, the people of Judah and those living in Jerusalem.

33 They turned their backs to me and not their faces; though I taught them again and again, they would not listen or respond to discipline.

34 They set up their vile images in the house that bears my Name and defiled it.

35 They built high places for Baal in the Valley of Ben Hinnom to sacrifice their sons and daughters to Molek, though I never commanded—nor did it enter my mind—that they should do such a detestable thing and so make Judah sin.

36 “You are saying about this city, ‘By the sword, famine and plague it will be given into the hands of the king of Babylon’; but this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says:

Cross References

• 1. S 2 Kings 21:4; Ezekiel 8:3-16
• 2. Jeremiah 7:10; Jeremiah 34:15
• 3. S Jeremiah 7:30