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Word Study- Abomination

Old Testament: 

45% of the time Abomination is used it is to reference idolatry and unfaithfulness to God 

22% of the time it is used to reference mistreating others and being violent against others 

15% of the time it is just a reference to abominations, not a description 

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New Testament
 

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Thoughts

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Breakdown of Verses

Toebah

Bdelugma/bdelussomai

Examples of Mistreating Others

Money was their stumbling block and the root of their iniquities- Ezekiel 7:19

Idolatry- worshipping idols- Ezekiel 7:20

Pride- Ezekiel 7:24

Full of bloody crimes and full of violence- Ezekiel 7:23

The people of the land are paralyzed by terror- Ezekiel 7:27

Guilt of Sodom: pride, excess of food, but did not aid the poor and needy. They were haughty- Ezekiel 16:49

Sheds blood, commits adultery, sleeps with neighbor's wife, oppresses the poor and needy, commits robery, worships idols, lends at interest and takes profit, does not restore the pledge, commits abomination- Ezekiel 18:10-13

Slander to shed blood- Ezekiel 22:9

father and mother are treated with contempt- Ezekiel 22:7

fatherless and widows are wronged in you- Ezekiel 22:8 

profaned Sabbath- Ezekiel 22:8

Commit lewdness- Ezekiel 22:9 (Lev. 19:16, 1 Sam 22:9-19)

Defile daughter-in-law, violate women, violate sister- 

take bribes to shed blood- Ezekiel 22:12

Extort others- Ezekiel 22:12 

the prophets conspiracy together- they devour human lives- Ezekiel 22:25

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Old Testament Verses Referencing Abomination

New Testament Verses Referencing Abomination

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