Deuteronomy 32:16
They provoked him by strange gods, and stirred him up to anger, with their abominations.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 18:27For all these detestable things the inhabitants of the land have done, that; were before you, and have defiled it.
Deuteronomy 7:25Their graven things thou shalt burn with fire: thou shalt not covet the silver and gold of which they are made, neither shalt thou take to thee any thing thereof, lest thou offend, because it is an abomination to the Lord thy God.
1 Kings 14:22And Juda did evil in the sight of the Lord, and provoked him above all that their fathers had done, in their sins which they committed.
2 Kings 17:17And consecrated their sons, and their daughters through fire: and they gave themselves to divinations, and soothsayings: and they delivered themselves up to do evil before the Lord, to provoke him.
2 Kings 23:13The high places also that were at Jerusalem on the right side of the Mount of Offence, O which Solomon king of Israel had built to Astaroth the idol of the Sidonians, and to Chamos the scandal of Moab, and to Melchom the abomination of the children of Ammon, the king defiled.
Jeremiah 2:11If a nation hath changed their gods, and indeed they are not gods,: but my people have changed their glory into an idol.
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 →