Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version They made him jealous with their foreign gods and angered him with their detestable idols. New Living Translation They stirred up his jealousy by worshiping foreign gods; they provoked his fury with detestable deeds. English Standard Version They stirred him to jealousy with strange gods; with abominations they provoked him to anger. Berean Standard Bible They provoked His jealousy with foreign gods; they enraged Him with abominations. King James Bible They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger. New King James Version They provoked Him to jealousy with foreign gods; With abominations they provoked Him to anger. New American Standard Bible “They made Him jealous with strange gods; With abominations they provoked Him to anger. NASB 1995 “They made Him jealous with strange gods; With abominations they provoked Him to anger. NASB 1977 “They made Him jealous with strange gods; With abominations they provoked Him to anger. Legacy Standard Bible They made Him jealous with strange gods; With abominations they provoked Him to anger. Amplified Bible “They provoked Him to jealousy with strange gods [by denying Him the honor and loyalty that is rightfully and uniquely His]; And with repulsive acts they provoked Him to anger. Christian Standard Bible They provoked his jealousy with different gods; they enraged him with detestable practices. Holman Christian Standard Bible They provoked His jealousy with foreign gods; they enraged Him with detestable practices. American Standard Version They moved him to jealousy with strange gods; With abominations provoked they him to anger. Contemporary English Version You made God jealous and angry by worshiping disgusting idols and foreign gods. English Revised Version They moved him to jealousy with strange gods, With abominations provoked they him to anger. GOD'S WORD® Translation They made him furious because they worshiped foreign gods and angered him because they worshiped worthless idols. Good News Translation Their idolatry made the LORD jealous; the evil they did made him angry. International Standard Version They provoked him to jealousy over foreigners and to anger over detestable things. Majority Standard Bible They provoked His jealousy with foreign gods; they enraged Him with abominations. NET Bible They made him jealous with other gods, they enraged him with abhorrent idols. New Heart English Bible They moved him to jealousy with strange gods. They provoked him to anger with abominations. Webster's Bible Translation They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations they provoked him to anger. World English Bible They moved him to jealousy with strange gods. They provoked him to anger with abominations. Literal Translations Literal Standard VersionThey make Him zealous with strangers, "" They make Him angry with abominations. Young's Literal Translation They make Him zealous with strangers, With abominations they make Him angry. Smith's Literal Translation He will cause him to be jealous with strangers, With abominations they will irritate him. Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleThey provoked him by strange gods, and stirred him up to anger, with their abominations. Catholic Public Domain Version They provoked him with strange gods, and they stirred him to anger by their abominations. New American Bible With strange gods they incited him, with abominations provoked him to anger. New Revised Standard Version They made him jealous with strange gods, with abhorrent things they provoked him. Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleThey provoked him to zealousness with strange gods, they made him angry with idols. Peshitta Holy Bible Translated He made him jealous with foreigners and he angered him with idols. OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917They roused Him to jealousy with strange gods, With abominations did they provoke Him. Brenton Septuagint Translation They provoked me to anger with strange gods; with their abominations they bitterly angered me. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context The Song of Moses…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. 16They provoked His jealousy with foreign gods; they enraged Him with abominations. 17They sacrificed to demons, not to God, to gods they had not known, to newly arrived gods, which your fathers did not fear.… Cross References Exodus 20:3-5 You shall have no other gods before Me. / You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in the heavens above, on the earth below, or in the waters beneath. / 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, Judges 2:12-13 Thus they forsook the LORD, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt, and they followed after various gods of the peoples around them. They bowed down to them and provoked the LORD to anger, / for they forsook Him and served Baal and the Ashtoreths. Psalm 106:35-39 but they mingled with the nations and adopted their customs. / They worshiped their idols, which became a snare to them. / They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons. ... Jeremiah 2:11-13 Has a nation ever changed its gods? (Yet they are not gods at all.) But My people have exchanged their Glory for useless idols. / Be stunned by this, O heavens; be shocked and utterly appalled,” declares the LORD. / “For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living water, and they have dug their own cisterns—broken cisterns that cannot hold water. Hosea 4:12-13 My people consult their wooden idols, and their divining rods inform them. For a spirit of prostitution leads them astray and they have played the harlot against their God. / They sacrifice on the mountaintops and burn offerings on the hills, under oak, poplar, and terebinth, because their shade is pleasant. And so your daughters turn to prostitution and your daughters-in-law to adultery. 1 Kings 11:4-8 For when Solomon grew old, his wives turned his heart after other gods, and he was not wholeheartedly devoted to the LORD his God, as his father David had been. / Solomon followed Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians and Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites. / So Solomon did evil in the sight of the LORD; unlike his father David, he did not follow the LORD completely. ... 2 Kings 17:7-12 All this happened because the people of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. They had worshiped other gods / and walked in the customs of the nations that the LORD had driven out before the Israelites, as well as in the practices introduced by the kings of Israel. / The Israelites secretly did things against the LORD their God that were not right. From watchtower to fortified city, they built high places in all their cities. ... Isaiah 1:4 Alas, O sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a brood of evildoers, children who act corruptly! They have forsaken the LORD; they have despised the Holy One of Israel and turned their backs on Him. Ezekiel 8:10-12 So I went in and looked, and engraved all around the wall was every kind of crawling creature and detestable beast, along with all the idols of the house of Israel. / Before them stood seventy elders of the house of Israel, with Jaazaniah son of Shaphan standing among them. Each had a censer in his hand, and a fragrant cloud of incense was rising. / “Son of man,” He said to me, “do you see what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the darkness, each at the shrine of his own idol? For they are saying, ‘The LORD does not see us; the LORD has forsaken the land.’” 2 Chronicles 28:23-25 He sacrificed to the gods of Damascus, who had defeated him, and he said, “Because the gods of the kings of Aram have helped them, I will sacrifice to them that they may help me.” But these gods were the downfall of Ahaz and of all Israel. / Then Ahaz gathered up the articles of the house of God, cut them into pieces, shut the doors of the house of the LORD, and set up altars of his own on every street corner in Jerusalem. / In every city of Judah he built high places to offer incense to other gods, and so he provoked the LORD, the God of his fathers. 1 Corinthians 10:20-22 No, but the sacrifices of pagans are offered to demons, not to God. And I do not want you to be participants with demons. / You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons too; you cannot partake in the table of the Lord and the table of demons too. / Are we trying to provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than He? Romans 1:21-23 For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and darkened in their foolish hearts. / Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools, / and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images of mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles. Revelation 17:1-5 Then one of the seven angels with the seven bowls came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the punishment of the great prostitute, who sits on many waters. / The kings of the earth were immoral with her, and those who dwell on the earth were intoxicated with the wine of her immorality.” / 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. ... Galatians 4:8 Formerly, when you did not know God, you were slaves to those who by nature are not gods. Acts 17:29-30 Therefore, being offspring of God, we should not think that the Divine Being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by man’s skill and imagination. / Although God overlooked the ignorance of earlier times, He now commands all people everywhere to repent. Treasury of Scripture They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger. provoked Deuteronomy 5:9 Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me, 1 Kings 14:22 And Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they had committed, above all that their fathers had done. Nahum 1:1,2 The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite… abominations Deuteronomy 7:25 The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not desire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee, lest thou be snared therein: for it is an abomination to the LORD thy God. Leviticus 18:27 (For all these abominations have the men of the land done, which were before you, and the land is defiled;) 2 Kings 23:13 And the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had builded for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile. Jump to Previous Abominable Abominations Anger Angered Angry Detestable Disgusting Honour Idols Jealous Jealousy Moved Practices Provoke Provoked Roused Stirred Strange Strangers Ways Wrath ZealousJump to Next Abominable Abominations Anger Angered Angry Detestable Disgusting Honour Idols Jealous Jealousy Moved Practices Provoke Provoked Roused Stirred Strange Strangers Ways Wrath ZealousDeuteronomy 32 1. Moses' song, which sets forth God's mercy and vengeance46. He exhorts them to set their hearts upon it 48. God sends him up to mount Nebo to see the land, and to die They provoked His jealousy The phrase "They provoked His jealousy" speaks to the deep emotional response of God towards the Israelites' actions. The Hebrew root for "jealousy" is "קָנָא" (qanah), which conveys a sense of zealous protection and passionate concern. In the context of a covenant relationship, God's jealousy is akin to that of a faithful spouse who desires exclusive devotion. This highlights the seriousness of Israel's infidelity, as they turned away from the God who had delivered them from Egypt and provided for them in the wilderness. Theologically, this underscores the nature of God as one who desires a personal and exclusive relationship with His people, reflecting His love and commitment. with foreign gods they enraged Him with abominations Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew They provoked His jealousyיַקְנִאֻ֖הוּ (yaq·ni·’u·hū) Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - third person masculine plural | third person masculine singular Strong's 7065: To be, zealous, jealous, envious with foreign gods; בְּזָרִ֑ים (bə·zā·rîm) Preposition-b | Adjective - masculine plural Strong's 2114: To turn aside, to be a, foreigner, strange, profane, to commit adultery they enraged Him יַכְעִיסֻֽהוּ׃ (yaḵ·‘î·su·hū) Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - third person masculine plural | third person masculine singular Strong's 3707: To trouble, to grieve, rage, be indignant with abominations. בְּתוֹעֵבֹ֖ת (bə·ṯō·w·‘ê·ḇōṯ) Preposition-b | Noun - feminine plural Strong's 8441: Something disgusting, an abhorrence, idolatry, an idol Links Deuteronomy 32:16 NIVDeuteronomy 32:16 NLT Deuteronomy 32:16 ESV Deuteronomy 32:16 NASB Deuteronomy 32:16 KJV Deuteronomy 32:16 BibleApps.com Deuteronomy 32:16 Biblia Paralela Deuteronomy 32:16 Chinese Bible Deuteronomy 32:16 French Bible Deuteronomy 32:16 Catholic Bible OT Law: Deuteronomy 32:16 They moved him to jealousy with strange (Deut. 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