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This word is used, (13.) To express [[Text:EBD:Pharaoh|Pharaoh was]] so moved by the idea fourth [[Text:EBD:Plague|plague]], that while he refused the demand of [[Text:EBD:Moses|Moses]], he offered a compromise, granting to the Israelites permission to hold their festival and offer their [[Text:EBD:Sacrifice|sacrifices]] in Egypt. This permission could not be accepted, because Moses said they would have to sacrifice "the abomination of the Egyptians considered themselves as defiled when they ate with strangers " (GenEx. 438:3226); i.e. The Jews subsequently followed , the [[Text:EBD:Cow|cow]] or [[Text:EBD:Ox|ox]], which all the same practiceEgyptians held as sacred, holding and which they regarded it unlawful as sacrilegious to eat or drink with foreigners (John 18:28; Acts 10:28; 11:3)kill.

(24.) Every shepherd was [[Text:EBD:Daniel|Daniel]] (11:31), in that section of his prophecies which is generally interpreted as referring to the fearful calamities that were to fall on the Jews in the time of [[Text:EBD:Antiochus|Antiochus]] Epiphanes, says, "an And they shall place the abominationthat maketh desolate." unto Antiochus Epiphanes caused an [[Text:EBD:Altar|altar]] to be erected on the Egyptians altar of [[Text:EBD:Burnt offering|burnt-offering]], on which sacrifices were offered to [[Text:EBD:Jupiter|Jupiter]] Olympus. (GenComp. 1 Macc. 461:3457). This aversion to shepherdswas the abomination of the desolation of [[Text:EBD:Jerusalem|Jerusalem]]. The same language is employed in Dan. 9:27 (comp. Matt. 24:15), such as where the Hebrews, arose reference is probably from to the image-crowned standards which the Romans set up at the [[Text:EBD:East|east]] [[Text:EBD:Gate|gate]] of the fact that Lower [[Text:EBD:Temple, Herod's|temple]] (A.D. 70), and Middle Egypt had formerly been held to which they paid idolatrous honours. "Almost the entire religion of the Roman camp consisted in oppressive subjection worshipping the ensign, swearing by a tribe of nomad shepherds (the Hyksos), who had only recently been expelledensign, and partly also perhaps from this in preferring the ensign before all other fact that gods." These ensigns were an "abomination" to the Egyptians detested Jews, the lawless habits "abomination of these wandering shepherdsdesolation."

This word is also used symbolically of [[Text:EBD:Sin|sin]] in general (Isa. 66:3.) Pharaoh was so moved by the fourth plague, that while he refused ; an [[Text:EBD:Idol|idol]] (44:19); the demand ceremonies of Moses, he offered a compromise, granting to the Israelites permission to hold their festival and offer their sacrifices in Egypt. This permission could not be accepted, because Moses said they would have to sacrifice "the abomination apostate [[Text:EBD:Church|Church]] of the Egyptians" [[Text:EBD:Rome|Rome]] (ExRev. 817:264); ia detestable act (Ezek.e., the cow or ox, which all the Egyptians held as sacred, and which they regarded it as sacrilegious to kill22:11).

(4.) Daniel (11:31), in that section of his prophecies which is generally interpreted as referring to the fearful calamities that were to fall on the Jews in the time of Antiochus Epiphanes, says, "And they shall place the abomination that maketh desolate." Antiochus Epiphanes caused an altar to be erected on the altar of burnt-offering, on which sacrifices were offered to Jupiter Olympus. (Comp. 1 Macc. 1:57). This was the abomination of the desolation of Jerusalem. The same language is employed in Dan. 9:27 (comp. Matt. 24:15), where the reference is probably to the image-crowned standards which the Romans set up at the east gate of the temple (A.D. 70), and to which they paid idolatrous honours. "Almost the entire religion of the Roman camp consisted in worshipping the ensign, swearing by the ensign, and in preferring the ensign before all other gods." These ensigns were an "abomination" to the Jews, the "abomination of desolation." This word is also used symbolically of sin in general (Isa. 66:3); an idol (44:19); the ceremonies of the apostate Church of Rome (Rev. 17:4); a detestable act (Ezek. 22:11). {{returnto}} [[Easton's Bible Dictionary]]