Deuteronomy 32:16 “They provoked His jealousy with foreign gods; they enraged Him with ab…”

Deuteronomy 32:16

They provoked His jealousy with foreign gods; they enraged Him with abominations.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger.

World English Bible

They moved him to jealousy with strange gods. They provoked him to anger with abominations.

American Standard Version

They moved him to jealousy with strange gods; With abominations provoked they him to anger.

Geneva Bible 1599

They prouoked him with strange gods: they prouoked him to anger with abominations.

Darby Translation

They moved him to jealousy with strange gods, With abominations did they provoke him to anger.

Young's Literal Translation

They make Him zealous with strangers, With abominations they make Him angry.

Bible in Basic English

The honour which was his they gave to strange gods; by their disgusting ways he was moved to wrath.

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Cross references

“provoked”

1 Corinthians 10:22 Deuteronomy 5:9 1 Kings 14:22 Nahum 1:1 Nahum 1:2

1 Corinthians 10:22 · BSB

Are we trying to provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than He?

Deuteronomy 5:9 · BSB

You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,

1 Kings 14:22 · BSB

And Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD, and by the sins they committed they provoked Him to jealous anger more than all their fathers had done.

Nahum 1:1 · BSB

This is the burden against Nineveh, the book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite:

Nahum 1:2 · BSB

The LORD is a jealous and avenging God; the LORD is avenging and full of wrath. The LORD takes vengeance on His foes and reserves wrath for His enemies.

“abominations”

Deuteronomy 7:25 Leviticus 18:27 2 Kings 23:13

Deuteronomy 7:25 · BSB

You must burn up the images of their gods; do not covet the silver and gold that is on them or take it for yourselves, or you will be ensnared by it; for it is detestable to the LORD your God.

Leviticus 18:27 · BSB

For the men who were in the land before you committed all these abominations, and the land has become defiled.

2 Kings 23:13 · BSB

The king also desecrated the high places east of Jerusalem, to the south of the Mount of Corruption, which King Solomon of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, for Chemosh the abomination of t…

Also

Psalm 78:58

Psalm 78:58 · BSB

They enraged Him with their high places and provoked His jealousy with their idols.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

15But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked— becoming fat, bloated, and gorged. He abandoned the God who made him and scorned the Rock of his salvation.

17They sacrificed to demons, not to God, to gods they had not known, to newly arrived gods, which your fathers did not fear.

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