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Deuteronomy 32:16

Sin

14 with curds from the herd and milk from the flock, with the fat of lambs, with rams from Bashan, and goats, with the choicest grains of wheat. From the juice of the finest grapes you drank the wine.

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

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

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

18 You ignored the Rock who brought you forth; you forgot the God who gave you birth.

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This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB
They provoked His jealousy with foreign gods; they enraged Him with abominations.
KJV
They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger.
WEB
They moved him to jealousy with strange gods. They provoked him to anger with abominations.
ASV
They moved him to jealousy with strange [gods]; With abominations provoked they him to anger.
DARBY
They moved him to jealousy with strange gods, With abominations did they provoke him to anger.
BLB
They provoked Him to jealousy with foreign [gods]; with abominations they provoked Him to anger.
ÅB
De vakte hans nidkjærhet ved fremmede guder; ved avskyelige avguder vakte de hans harme.
OTB
De vakte hans sjalusi med fremmede guder; med avskyelige handlinger gjorde de ham vred.
B1930
De vakte hans nidkjærhet ved fremmede guder; ved vederstyggelige avguder vakte de hans harme.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Psalms 78:58

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

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  • 1 Corinthians 10:22

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

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  • 2 Kings 23:13

    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 the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.

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  • Deuteronomy 7:25

    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.

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  • Deuteronomy 5:9

    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,

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  • Nahum 1:1–2

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

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  • Leviticus 18:27

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

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  • 1 Kings 14:22

    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.

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