Abomination

That which is utterly detestable in the sight of God, particularly sin and idolatry. Daniel predicts the establishment of an “abomination that causes desolation” on the temple mount and Jesus Christ reiterates this prophecy.

Sin is an abomination

God detests it

Leviticus 20:13; Proverbs 26:24–26 See also Leviticus 18:26–30; Proverbs 6:16–19, Proverbs 28:9; Isaiah 66:3–4

If a man lies with a man as with a woman, they have both committed an abomination. They must surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.

A hateful man disguises himself with his speech, but he lays up deceit in his heart. When he speaks graciously, do not believe him, for seven abominations fill his heart. Though his hatred is concealed by deception, his wickedness will be exposed in the assembly.

The abomination of Babylon the Great

Revelation 17:3–6 See also Jeremiah 51:6–8; Revelation 14:8, Revelation 19:1–2

And the angel carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness, where I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was covered with blasphemous names and had seven heads and ten horns. The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls. She held in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of her sexual immorality. And on her forehead a mysterious name was written: BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF PROSTITUTES AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. I could see that the woman was drunk with the blood of the saints and witnesses for Jesus. And I was utterly amazed at the sight of her.

Idolatry is an abomination

Jeremiah 32:32–35 Deuteronomy 7:25–26, Deuteronomy 12:31, Deuteronomy 18:9–13, Deuteronomy 27:15, Deuteronomy 29:17–18; Deuteronomy 32:15–16; 1 Kings 11:4–8; 2 Kings 23:13; Isaiah 44:19; Jeremiah 4:1–2, Jeremiah 7:30, Jeremiah 16:18; Ezekiel 5:9, Ezekiel 7:20, Ezekiel 8:5–18 idolatry in the temple; Ezekiel 11:17–21, Ezekiel 20:30; Hosea 9:10; 1 Peter 4:3

because of all the evil the children of Israel and of Judah have done to provoke Me to anger— they, their kings, their officials, their priests and prophets, the men of Judah, and the residents of Jerusalem. They have turned their backs to Me and not their faces. Though I taught them again and again, they would not listen or respond to discipline. They have placed their abominations in the house that bears My Name, and so have defiled it. They have built the high places of Baal in the Valley of Ben-hinnom to make their sons and daughters pass through the fire to Molech— something I never commanded them, nor had it ever entered My mind, that they should commit such an abomination and cause Judah to sin.

Unclean animals are an abomination

Isaiah 66:17 See also Leviticus 7:21, Leviticus 11:13–20, Leviticus 11:41–42; Isaiah 65:2–5; Revelation 18:2

“Those who consecrate and purify themselves to enter the groves — to follow one in the center of those who eat the flesh of swine and vermin and rats — will perish together,” declares the LORD.

The abomination that causes desolation

Daniel 9:25–27 See also Daniel 11:29–32, Daniel 12:11–12; Matthew 24:15–21 parallel Mark 13:14–19; Revelation 13:14–15

Know and understand this: From the issuance of the decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until the Messiah, the Prince, there will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks. It will be rebuilt with streets and a trench, but in times of distress. Then after the sixty-two weeks the Messiah will be cut off and will have nothing. Then the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood, and until the end there will be war; desolations have been decreed. And he will confirm a covenant with many for one week, but in the middle of the week he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And on the wing of the temple will come the abomination that causes desolation, until the decreed destruction is poured out upon him.”