Deuteronomy 32:16
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“They provoked His jealousy with foreign gods; they enraged Him with abominations.”
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“They provoked His jealousy with foreign gods; they enraged Him with abominations.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger.”
King James Version · Public Domain“They moved him to jealousy with strange gods; With abominations provoked they him to anger.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“They make Him zealous with strangers, With abominations they make Him angry.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Deuteronomy 32:16 — 14 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Leviticus 18:27For the men who were in the land before you committed all these abominations, and the land has become defiled.
- Deuteronomy 5:9You 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,
- Deuteronomy 7:25You 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.
- 1 Kings 14:9You have done more evil than all who came before you. You have proceeded to make for yourself other gods and molten images to provoke Me, and you have flung Me behind your back.
- 1 Kings 14:22And 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.
- 2 Kings 17:11They burned incense on all the high places like the nations that the LORD had driven out before them. They did wicked things, provoking the LORD to anger.
- 2 Kings 17:17They sacrificed their sons and daughters in the fire and practiced divination and soothsaying. They devoted themselves to doing evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him to anger.
- 2 Kings 21:6He sacrificed his own son in the fire, practiced sorcery and divination, and consulted mediums and spiritists. He did great evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him to anger.
- 2 Kings 23:13The 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 the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.
- Psalms 78:58They enraged Him with their high places and provoked His jealousy with their idols.
- Jeremiah 2:11Has a nation ever changed its gods, though they are no gods at all? Yet My people have exchanged their Glory for useless idols.
- Jeremiah 8:19Listen to the cry of the daughter of my people from a land far away: “Is the LORD no longer in Zion? Is her King no longer there?” “Why have they provoked Me to anger with their carved images, with their worthless foreign idols?”
- Nahum 1:1This is the burden against Nineveh, the book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite:
- 1 Corinthians 10:22Are we trying to provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than He?
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