Deuteronomy 32:21
They have made me jealous by worshiping things that are not God; they have made me angry with their useless idols. So I will make them jealous using a people that aren't really a nation; I will make them angry using ignorant foreigners.
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1 Samuel 12:21Don't worship worthless idols that can't help you or save you, for they are nothing.
1 Kings 16:13This was because of all the sins Baasha and his son Elah had committed and had made Israel to commit. Their worship of their useless idols had angered the Lord, the God of Israel.
2 Kings 17:11They offered sacrifices on all the high places, just like the nations the Lord drove out before them. They did evil things, angering the Lord.
2 Kings 22:17They have abandoned me and offered sacrifices to other gods, making me angry by everything they've done. My anger will be poured out upon this place and will not be stopped.
Psalms 78:58They made him angry with their pagan high places of worship; they made him jealous with their idols.
Jeremiah 2:11Has a nation ever changed its gods? —even though they're not gods at all! Yet my people have traded their glorious God for worthless idols.
Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 32:20-26
19 And when the Lord saw it, he abhorred them, because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters. 20 And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be: for they are a very froward generation, children in whom is no faith. 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 to anger with a foolish nation. 22 For a fire is kindled… Read the whole commentary →