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Jeremiah

Jeremiah 
Day 
Day 121

"The children of Judah have done evil in My sight"

Text: Jeremiah 7:30

ADDRESSING HEINOUS SINS

There was no better way of addressing Judah than to point out some of its more heinous sins! Judah must recognize the seriousness of its sins!

“‘For the children of Judah have done evil in My sight,’ says the LORD.
‘They have set their abominations in the house which is called by My name,
to pollute it. And they have built the high places of Tophet,
which is in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom,
to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire,
which I did not command, nor did it come into My heart.'”
Jeremiah 7:30-31

1. “‘For the children of Judah have done evil in My sight,’ says the LORD.”

a) The children of Judah
i) “The children of Israel” was substituted for this more accurate one.
ii) The nation of Israel had been conquered by Assyria.
b) A similar fate awaited the children of Judah.
i) Their would-be conquerors were the Babylonians.
ii) They were worse than the Assyrian invaders.
c) The children of Israel had done evil in God’s sight deliberately.
d) The children of Judah were also guilty of doing evil intentionally.

2. “They have set their abominations in the house which is called by My name, to pollute it.”

a) Abominations
i) This was a term used to describe idols.
ii) Judah had become densely idolatrous.
b) The house called by God’s name.
i) This was a reference to the Temple of Jerusalem.
ii) Judah had placed idols into the holy Temple.
c) They had polluted the Temple by doing this!

3. “And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom”

a) Tophet was the name of a place in the valley of Hinnom.
b) “High places”
i) These were shrines.
ii) They were erected as places of idolatrous worship.

4. “To burn their sons and their daughters in the fire, which I did not command, nor did it come into My heart.”

a) The children of Judah were prepared to sacrifice their children in worship.
b) This was an old Canaanite religious practice where children were sacrificed to the idol-god Moloch.
c) Judah had adopted this worship practice!