"They provoked him to jealousy with strange {gods}, with abominations provoked they him to anger." — Deuteronomy 32:16

Deuteronomy 32:16 · KJV

“They provoked him to jealousy with strange {gods}, with abominations provoked they him to anger.”

— Deuteronomy 32:16

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.

Verse 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. {not to...: or, which were not God}

Deuteronomy 32 — Context

Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat; and thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape.

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.

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

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. {not to...: or, which were not God}

Of the Rock {that} begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee.

Cross References

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. {the mount...: that is, the mount of Olives}

Nahum 1:1-2

The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.

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.

Leviticus 18:27

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

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,

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.