Deuteronomy 32:16
They moved him to jealousy with strange [gods]. With abominations they provoked him to anger.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger.
In Context
Cross References
Leviticus 18:27(for all these abominations the men of the land have done, who were before you, and the land is defiled),
Deuteronomy 7:25Ye shall burn the graven images of their gods with fire. Thou shall not covet the silver or the gold that is on them, nor take it to thee, lest thou be snared by it, for it is an abomination to LORD thy God.
1 Kings 14:22And Judah did that which was evil in the sight of LORD, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they committed, above all that their fathers had done.
2 Kings 17:17And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do that which was evil in the sight of LORD to provoke him to anger.
2 Kings 23:13And the king defiled 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 built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, and for Chemosh th
Jeremiah 2:11Has a nation changed [its] gods, which yet are no gods? But my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit.
Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 32:16-19
15 But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation. 16 They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger. 17 They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not. 18 Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee.… Read the whole commentary →