38 Verses About Abhor from 17 Books

1 Kings 11:25

He was an adversary to Israel all the days of Solomon, besides the mischief that Hadad [did]: and he abhorred Israel, and reigned over Syria.

1 Samuel 27:12

Achish believed David, saying, "He has made his people Israel utterly to abhor him. Therefore he shall be my servant forever."

2 Samuel 16:21

Ahithophel said to Absalom, "Go in to your father's concubines, that he has left to keep the house. Then all Israel will hear that you are abhorred by your father. Then the hands of all who are with you will be strong."

Amos 5:10

They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks blamelessly.

Amos 6:8

"The Lord the LORD has sworn by himself," says the LORD, the God of Armies: "I abhor the pride of Jacob, and detest his fortresses. Therefore I will deliver up the city with all that is in it.

Deuteronomy 7:26

You shall not bring an abomination into your house, and become a devoted thing like it. You shall utterly detest it, and you shall utterly abhor it; for it is a devoted thing.

Deuteronomy 23:7

You shall not abhor an Edomite; for he is your brother: you shall not abhor an Egyptian, because you lived as a foreigner in his land.



Deuteronomy 32:19

the LORD saw [it], and abhorred [them], because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters.

Additions to Esther 8:15

"You know all things, O Lord; you know that I hate the glory of the unrighteous and abhor the bed of the uncircumcised and of all the heathen.

Additions to Esther 8:16

You know my necessity, for I abhor the sign of my high estate, which is upon my head in the days when I show myself, and that I abhor it as a menstruous rag, and that I wear it not when I am in private by myself.

Exodus 5:21

and they said to them, "May the LORD look at you, and judge, because you have made us a stench to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to kill us."

Ezekiel 16:5

No eye pitied you, to do any of these things to you, to have compassion on you; but you were cast out in the open field, for that your person was abhorred, in the day that you were born.

Isaiah 7:16

For before the child knows to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land whose two kings you abhor shall be forsaken.

Isaiah 49:7

Thus says the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel, [and] his Holy One, to him whom man despises, to him whom the nation abhors, to a servant of rulers: "Kings shall see and arise; princes, and they shall worship; because of the LORD who is faithful, [even] the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you."



Jeremiah 14:21

Do not abhor [us], for your name's sake; do not disgrace the throne of your glory: remember, don't break your covenant with us.

Job 9:31

yet you will plunge me in the ditch. My own clothes shall abhor me.

Job 19:19

All my familiar friends abhor me. They whom I loved have turned against me.

Job 30:10

They abhor me, they stand aloof from me, and don't hesitate to spit in my face.

Job 33:20

So that his life abhors bread, and his soul dainty food.

Job 42:6

Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes."

Lamentations 2:7

The Lord has cast off his altar, he has abhorred his sanctuary; He has given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces: They have made a noise in the house of the LORD, as in the day of a solemn assembly.



Leviticus 20:23

You shall not walk in the customs of the nation, which I am casting out before you: for they did all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.

Leviticus 26:11

I will set my tent among you: and my soul won't abhor you.

Leviticus 26:15

and if you shall reject my statutes, and if your soul abhors my ordinances, so that you will not do all my commandments, but break my covenant;

Leviticus 26:30

I will destroy your high places, and cut down your incense altars, and cast your dead bodies upon the bodies of your idols; and my soul will abhor you.

Leviticus 26:43

The land also will be left by them, and will enjoy its sabbaths while it lies desolate without them: and they will accept the punishment of their iniquity; because, even because they rejected my ordinances, and their soul abhorred my statutes.

Leviticus 26:44

Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them; for I am the LORD their God;

Micah 3:9

Please listen to this, you heads of the house of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel, who abhor justice, and pervert all equity.



Proverbs 24:24

He who says to the wicked, "You are righteous;" peoples shall curse him, and nations shall abhor him--

Psalms 5:6

You will destroy those who speak lies. the LORD abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.

Psalms 22:24

For he has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, Neither has he hidden his face from him; but when he cried to him, he heard.

Psalms 36:4

He plots iniquity on his bed. He sets himself in a way that is not good. He doesn't abhor evil.

Psalms 78:59

When God heard this, he was angry, and greatly abhorred Israel;

Psalms 106:40

Therefore the LORD burned with anger against his people. He abhorred his inheritance.

Psalms 107:18

Their soul abhors all kinds of food. They draw near to the gates of death.



Psalms 119:163

I hate and abhor falsehood. I love your law.

Romans 2:22

You who say a man shouldn't commit adultery. Do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?

Romans 12:9

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.





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