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Deuteronomy 32:16
Deuteronomy 32:16 is verse 16 of Deuteronomy chapter 32, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
They provoked His jealousy with foreign gods; they enraged Him with abominations.
King James Version
They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger.
World English Bible
They moved him to jealousy with strange gods. They provoked him to anger with abominations.
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Deuteronomy 32:14–18 · Berean Standard Bible
14 with curds from the herd and milk from the flock, with the fat of lambs, with rams from Bashan, and goats, with the choicest grains of wheat. From the juice of the finest grapes you drank the wine.
15 But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked— becoming fat, bloated, and gorged. He abandoned the God who made him and scorned the Rock of his salvation.
16 They provoked His jealousy with foreign gods; they enraged Him with abominations.
17 They sacrificed to demons, not to God, to gods they had not known, to newly arrived gods, which your fathers did not fear.
18 You ignored the Rock who brought you forth; you forgot the God who gave you birth.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Deuteronomy 5:9You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,
1 Kings 14:22And Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD, and by the sins they committed they provoked Him to jealous anger more than all their fathers had done.
Nahum 1:1This is the burden against Nineveh, the book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite:
Nahum 1:2The LORD is a jealous and avenging God; the LORD is avenging and full of wrath. The LORD takes vengeance on His foes and reserves wrath for His enemies.
1 Corinthians 10:22Are we trying to provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than He?
Deuteronomy 7:25You must burn up the images of their gods; do not covet the silver and gold that is on them or take it for yourselves, or you will be ensnared by it; for it is detestable to the LORD your God.
Leviticus 18:27For the men who were in the land before you committed all these abominations, and the land has become defiled.
2 Kings 23:13The king also desecrated the high places east of Jerusalem, to the south of the Mount of Corruption, which King Solomon of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.