Jeremiah 32:34

34 They set up ¹their abominations in the house that is called by my name, to defile 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 because of all the evil of the children of Israel and the children of Judah that they did to provoke me to anger— their kings and their officials, their priests and their prophets, the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

33 They have turned to me their back and not their face. And though I have taught them persistently, they have not listened to receive instruction.

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

35 They built the high places of Baal in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, to offer up their sons and daughters to Molech, though I did not command them, nor did it enter into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.

36 “Now therefore thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, concerning this city of which you say, ‘It is given into the hand of the king of Babylon by sword, by famine, and by pestilence’:

Cross References

• 1. 32:34 See ch. 7:30; 23:11