Deuteronomy 32 · Verse 16

Deuteronomy 32:16

They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger.
Deuteronomy 32:16, King James Version

Deuteronomy 32:16 in other translations

BSBThey provoked His jealousy with foreign gods; they enraged Him with abominations.
WEBThey moved him to jealousy with strange gods. They provoked him to anger with abominations.
ASVThey moved him to jealousy with strange gods; With abominations provoked they him to anger.
YLTThey make Him zealous with strangers, With abominations they make Him angry.
DARBYThey moved him to jealousy with strangegods, With abominations did they provoke him to anger.
BBEThe honour which was his they gave to strange gods; by their disgusting ways he was moved to wrath.
WebsterThey provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations they provoked him to anger.

What does Deuteronomy 32:16 mean?

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Deuteronomy 32:15-18

Here are two instances of the wickedness of Israel, each was apostacy from God. These people were called Jeshurun, "an upright people," so some; "a seeing people," so others: but they soon lost the reputation both of their knowledge and of their righteousness. They indulged their appetites, as if they had nothing to do but to make provision for the flesh to fulfil the lusts of it. Those who make a god of themselves…

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Deuteronomy 32:16 in the original Hebrew

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יַקְנִאֻ֖הוּyak.ni.'U.huthey made jealous himH7065
בְּזָרִ֑יםbe.za.Rimby strange [gods]H2114
בְּתוֹעֵבֹ֖תbe.to.'e.Votby abominationsH8441
יַכְעִיסֻֽהוּ\׃yakh.'i.Su.huthey provoked to anger himH3707

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Cross references for Deuteronomy 32:16

  • Psalms 78:58

    For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.

  • 1 Corinthians 10:22

    Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?

  • 2 Kings 23:13

    And 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 builded for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile.

  • Deuteronomy 7:25

    The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not desire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee, lest thou be snared therein: for it is an abomination to the Lord thy God.

  • Deuteronomy 5:9

    Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me,

  • Nahum 1:1-2

    The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite. God is jealous, and the Lord revengeth; the Lord revengeth, and is furious; the Lord will take vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserveth wrath for his enemies.

  • Leviticus 18:27

    (For all these abominations have the men of the land done, which were before you, and the land is defiled;)

  • 1 Kings 14:22

    And Judah did evil in the sight of the Lord, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they had committed, above all that their fathers had done.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
provoked.
5:9; 1Ki 14:22; Na 1:1,2; 1Co 10:22
abominations.
7:25; Le 18:27; 2Ki 23:13

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Context

  • Deuteronomy 32:15

    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.

  • Deuteronomy 32:16

    They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger.

  • Deuteronomy 32:17

    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.

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Deuteronomy 32:16 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Despertáronle á celos con los dioses ajenos; ensañáronle con abominaciones.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Ils l’ont ému à jalousie par des dieux étrangers; ils l’ont provoqué à colère par des abominations.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Sie reizten ihn zur Eifersucht durch fremde Götter, durch Greuel erbitterten sie ihn.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Provocaverunt eum in diis alienis, et in abominationibus ad iracundiam concitaverunt.