Deuteronomy 32:16

New American Bible - revised edition

With strange gods they incited him, with abominations provoked him to anger.

Cross References

1 Kings 14:22

Judah did evil in the Lord’s sight and they angered him even more than their ancestors had done.

1 Kings 14:9

You have done more evil than all who were before you: you have gone and made for yourself other gods and molten images to provoke me; but me you have cast behind your back.

2 Kings 17:11

They burned incense there, on all the high places, like the nations whom the Lord had sent into exile at their coming. They did evil things that provoked the Lord,

2 Kings 17:17

They immolated their sons and daughters by fire. They practiced augury and divination. They surrendered themselves to doing what was evil in the Lord’s sight, and provoked him.

2 Kings 21:6

He immolated his child by fire. He practiced soothsaying and divination, and reintroduced the consulting of ghosts and spirits. He did much evil in the Lord’s sight and provoked him to anger.

2 Kings 23:13

The king defiled the high places east of Jerusalem, south of the Mount of the Destroyer, which Solomon, king of Israel, had built in honor of Astarte, the Sidonian horror, of Chemosh, the Moabite horror, and of Milcom, the Ammonites’ abomination.

Psalm 106:29

They provoked him by their actions, and a plague broke out among them.

Psalm 78:58

They enraged him with their high places, and with their idols provoked him to jealous anger.

Isaiah 43:12

It is I who declared, who saved, who announced, not some strange god among you; You are my witnesses—oracle of the Lord. I am God,

Jeremiah 2:11

Does any other nation change its gods?— even though they are not gods at all! But my people have changed their glory for useless things.

Jeremiah 2:25

Stop wearing out your feet and parching your throat! But you say, “No use! No! How I love these strangers, after them I must go.”

Jeremiah 7:18

The children gather wood, their fathers light the fire, and the women knead dough to make cakes for the Queen of Heaven, while libations are poured out to other gods—all to offend me!

Jeremiah 8:19

Listen! the cry of the daughter of my people, far and wide in the land! “Is the Lord no longer in Zion, is her King no longer in her midst?” Why do they provoke me with their idols, with their foreign nonentities?

Ezekiel 8:3

He stretched out the form of a hand and seized me by the hair of my head. The spirit lifted me up between earth and heaven and brought me in divine vision to Jerusalem to the entrance of the inner gate facing north where the statue of jealousy that provokes jealousy stood.

Leviticus 18:27

because the previous inhabitants did all these abominations and the land became defiled;

1 Corinthians 10:22

Or are we provoking the Lord to jealous anger? Are we stronger than he? Seek the Good of Others.

Deuteronomy 32:21

Since they have incited me with a “no-god,” and provoked me with their empty idols, I will incite them with a “no-people”; with a foolish nation I will provoke them.

Deuteronomy 5:9

you shall not bow down before them or serve them. For I, the Lord, your God, am a jealous God, bringing punishment for their parents’ wickedness on the children of those who hate me, down to the third and fourth generation,

Deuteronomy 7:25

The images of their gods you shall destroy by fire. Do not covet the silver or gold on them, nor take it for yourselves, lest you be ensnared by it; for it is an abomination to the Lord, your God.