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Deuteronomy 32:16

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

KJV

Provocaverunt eum in diis alienis, et in abominationibus ad iracundiam concitaverunt.

Vulgate

παρώξυνάν με ἐπ’ ἀλλοτρίοις, ἐν βδελύγμασιν αὐτῶν παρεπίκρανάν με·

LXX

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

ASV

יַקְנִאֻ֖/הוּ בְּ/זָרִ֑ים בְּ/תוֹעֵבֹ֖ת יַכְעִיסֻֽ/הוּ

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

4 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

זָ֑ר
zr
verb · 76×
יְקַנְא֣וּ
yqn'v
verb · 33×
נִי
ny
verb · 51×
תּוֹעֲבַ֣ת
tv'bt
noun · 118×

Historic Christian voices

1 passage from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 1Cor 10:20 — But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils.
  • 1Cor 10:22 — Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?
  • 1Cor 10:22 — Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?
  • 1Kgs 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.
  • Deut 4:24 — For the LORD thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God.
  • Deut 7:4 — For they will turn away thy son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and destroy thee suddenly.
  • Deut 32:21 — They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them t
  • Exod 34:14 — For thou shalt worship no other god: for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God:
  • Ezek 8:3 — And he put forth the form of an hand, and took me by a lock of mine head; and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door o
  • Gen 35:2 — Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and be clean, and change your garments:
  • Isa 65:3 — A people that provoketh me to anger continually to my face; that sacrificeth in gardens, and burneth incense upon altars of brick;
  • Jer 2:25 — Withhold thy foot from being unshod, and thy throat from thirst: but thou saidst, There is no hope: no; for I have loved strangers, and after them will I go.
  • Jer 44:8 — In that ye provoke me unto wrath with the works of your hands, burning incense unto other gods in the land of Egypt, whither ye be gone to dwell, that ye might cut yourselves off, and that ye might be
  • Joel 2:18 — Then will the LORD be jealous for his land, and pity his people.
  • Judg 5:8 — They chose new gods; then was war in the gates: was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?
  • Judg 10:7 — And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and he sold them into the hands of the Philistines, and into the hands of the children of Ammon.
  • Num 25:11 — Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, hath turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, while he was zealous for my sake among them, that I consumed not the children of Israe
  • Ps 78:58 — For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
  • Ps 106:29 — Thus they provoked him to anger with their inventions: and the plague brake in upon them.