This word is used,

¹To express the idea that the Egyptians considered themselves as defiled when they ate with strangers (Genesis 43:32). The Jews subsequently followed the same practice, holding it unlawful to eat or drink with foreigners (John 18:28; Acts 10:28; 11:3).

²Every shepherd was "an abomination" unto the Egyptians (Genesis 46:34). This aversion to shepherds, such as the Hebrews, arose probably from the fact that Lower and Middle Egypt had formerly been held in oppressive subjection by a tribe of nomad shepherds (the Hyksos), who had only recently been expelled, and partly also perhaps from this other fact that the Egyptians detested the lawless habits of these wandering shepherds.

³Pharaoh was so moved by the fourth plague, that while he refused the demand 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 of the Egyptians" (Exodus 8:26); i.e., the cow or ox, which all the Egyptians held as sacred, and which they regarded it as sacrilegious to kill.

⁴Daniel (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 Daniel 9:27 (comp. Matthew 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 (Isaiah 66:3); an idol (44:19); the ceremonies of the apostate Church of Rome (Revelation 17:4); a detestable act (Ezekiel 22:11).

Things that are, to God

Idolatry
Deuteronomy 7:25; 27:15; 32:16

Unjust weights and measures
Deuteronomy 25:13-16;

Proverbs 11:1; 20:1,23

Uncleanness
Leviticus 18:22; 20:13;

Deuteronomy 24:4

Incest
Leviticus 18:6-18

Lying with a woman in her menses
Leviticus 18:18,20

Adultery
Leviticus 18:20

Sodomy
Leviticus 18:22,23

Offering seed to Molech
Leviticus 18:21

Offering children in sacrifice
Deuteronomy 18:10

Sorcery and necromancy
Deuteronomy 18:10,11

The hire of a whore and price of a dog, as a consecrated gift
Deuteronomy 23:18

UNCLASSIFIED SCRIPTURES RELATING TO
Deuteronomy 22:5;

Proverbs 3:32; 6:16-19; 8:7; 11:20; 12:22; 15:8,9,26; 16:5; 17:15; 20:10,23; 21:27; 24:9; 28:9; 29:27

of desolation.
Daniel 9:27

Daniel 12:11

Daniel 11:31

Mark 13:14

of national character.
Deuteronomy 18:9

Deuteronomy 18:12

Ezekiel 5:11

Ezekiel 8:6

of offerings.
Deuteronomy 17:1

Proverbs 15:8,9

Isaiah 1:13

of prayer of wicked.
Proverbs 28:9

of defilement.
Deuteronomy 24:4

Proverbs 16:12

Isaiah 66:17

Revelation 21:27

of falsity.
Proverbs 11:1

Proverbs 17:15

Proverbs 20:10

Proverbs 20:23

of idolatry.
Deuteronomy 7:25,26

Deuteronomy 27:15

Jeremiah 2:7

Ezekiel 18:12

Luke 16:15

//additional references
Genesis 43:32

Genesis 46:34

Exodus 8:26

Psalms 88:8

Proverbs 3:32

Proverbs 6:16

Proverbs 8:17

Proverbs 11:20

Proverbs 12:22

Proverbs 13:19

Proverbs 16:5

Proverbs 24:9

Proverbs 29:27

Ezekiel 33:26

Ezekiel 18:24

Ezekiel 20:4

Ezekiel 36:31

Ezekiel 44:6

Revelation 17:4