Deuteronomy 32:17
They made offerings to evil spirits which were not God, to gods who were strange to them, which had newly come up, not feared by your fathers.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
In Context
16The honour which was his they gave to strange gods; by their disgusting ways he was moved to wrath.
18You have no thought for the Rock, your father, you have no memory of the God who gave you birth.
Cross References
Leviticus 17:7And let them make no more offerings to evil spirits, after which they have gone, turning away from the Lord. Let this be a law to them for ever, through all their generations.
Deuteronomy 28:64And the Lord will send you wandering among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other: there you will be servants to other gods, of wood and stone, gods of which you and your fathers had no knowledge.
Judges 5:8They had no one to make arms, there were no more armed men in the towns; was there a body-cover or a spear to be seen among forty thousand in Israel?
Isaiah 44:8Have no fear, be strong in heart; have I not made it clear to you in the past, and let you see it? and you are my witnesses. Is there any God but me, or a Rock of whom I have no knowledge?
Jeremiah 19:4Because they have given me up, and made this place a strange place, burning perfumes in it to other gods, of whom they and their fathers and the kings of Judah had no knowledge; and they have made this place full of the blood of those who have done no wrong;
1 Corinthians 10:19Do I say, then, that what is offered to images is anything, or that the image is anything?
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 →