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they provoked his fury with detestable deeds.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/deuteronomy/32.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />They stirred him to jealousy with strange gods; with abominations they provoked him to anger.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/deuteronomy/32.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />They provoked His jealousy with foreign gods; they enraged Him with abominations.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/deuteronomy/32.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />They provoked him to jealousy with strange <i>gods</i>, with abominations provoked they him to anger.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/deuteronomy/32.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />They provoked Him to jealousy with foreign <i>gods;</i> With abominations they provoked Him to anger.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/deuteronomy/32.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />“They made Him jealous with strange <i>gods;</i> With abominations they provoked Him to anger.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/deuteronomy/32.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />&#8220They made Him jealous with strange gods; With abominations they provoked Him to anger.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/deuteronomy/32.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />“They made Him jealous with strange <i>gods;</i> With abominations they provoked Him to anger.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/deuteronomy/32.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />They made Him jealous with strange <i>gods</i>; With abominations they provoked Him to anger.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/deuteronomy/32.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />“They provoked Him to jealousy with strange <i>gods</i> [by denying Him the honor and loyalty that is rightfully and uniquely His]; And with repulsive acts they provoked Him to anger.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/deuteronomy/32.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />They provoked his jealousy with different gods; they enraged him with detestable practices.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/deuteronomy/32.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />They provoked His jealousy with foreign gods; they enraged Him with detestable practices. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/deuteronomy/32.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />They moved him to jealousy with strange gods; With abominations provoked they him to anger.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/deuteronomy/32.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />You made God jealous and angry by worshiping disgusting idols and foreign gods. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/deuteronomy/32.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />They moved him to jealousy with strange gods, With abominations provoked they him to anger.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/deuteronomy/32.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />They made him furious because they worshiped foreign gods and angered him because they worshiped worthless idols.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/deuteronomy/32.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />Their idolatry made the LORD jealous; the evil they did made him angry. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/deuteronomy/32.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />They provoked him to jealousy over foreigners and to anger over detestable things.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/deuteronomy/32.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />They provoked His jealousy with foreign gods; they enraged Him with abominations.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/deuteronomy/32.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />They made him jealous with other gods, they enraged him with abhorrent idols. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/deuteronomy/32.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />They moved him to jealousy with strange gods. They provoked him to anger with abominations.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/deuteronomy/32.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations they provoked him to anger.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/deuteronomy/32.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />They moved him to jealousy with strange gods. They provoked him to anger with abominations. <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/deuteronomy/32.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />They make Him zealous with strangers, "" They make Him angry with abominations.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/deuteronomy/32.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> They make Him zealous with strangers, With abominations they make Him angry.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/deuteronomy/32.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />He will cause him to be jealous with strangers, With abominations they will irritate him.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/deuteronomy/32.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />They provoked him by strange gods, and stirred him up to anger, with their abominations. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/deuteronomy/32.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />They provoked him with strange gods, and they stirred him to anger by their abominations.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/deuteronomy/32.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />With strange gods they incited him, with abominations provoked him to anger. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/deuteronomy/32.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />They made him jealous with strange gods, with abhorrent things they provoked him.<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/deuteronomy/32.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />They provoked him to zealousness with strange gods, they made him angry with idols.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/deuteronomy/32.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />He made him jealous with foreigners and he angered him with idols.<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/deuteronomy/32.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />They roused Him to jealousy with strange gods, With abominations did they provoke Him.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/deuteronomy/32.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />They provoked me to anger with strange gods; with their abominations they bitterly angered me.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/deuteronomy/32-16.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/IRhBtZaVxJ0?start=9093" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/deuteronomy/32.htm">The Song of Moses</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">15</span>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. <span class="reftext">16</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/7065.htm" title="7065: yaq·ni·’u·hū (V-Hifil-Imperf-3mp:: 3ms) -- To be jealous or zealous. A primitive root; to be zealous, i.e. jealous or envious.">They provoked His jealousy</a> <a href="/hebrew/2114.htm" title="2114: bə·zā·rîm (Prep-b:: Adj-mp) -- A primitive root; to turn aside; hence to be a foreigner, strange, profane; specifically to commit adultery.">with foreign gods;</a> <a href="/hebrew/3707.htm" title="3707: yaḵ·‘î·su·hū (V-Hifil-Imperf-3mp:: 3ms) -- To be vexed or angry. A primitive root; to trouble; by implication, to grieve, rage, be indignant.">they enraged Him</a> <a href="/hebrew/8441.htm" title="8441: bə·ṯō·w·‘ê·ḇōṯ (Prep-b:: N-fp) -- Or tonebah; feminine active participle of ta'ab; properly, something disgusting, i.e. an abhorrence; especially idolatry or an idol.">with abominations.</a> </span><span class="reftext">17</span>They sacrificed to demons, not to God, to gods they had not known, to newly arrived gods, which your fathers did not fear.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/exodus/20-3.htm">Exodus 20:3-5</a></span><br />You shall have no other gods before Me. / You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in the heavens above, on the earth below, or in the waters beneath. / You 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,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/judges/2-12.htm">Judges 2:12-13</a></span><br />Thus they forsook the LORD, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt, and they followed after various gods of the peoples around them. They bowed down to them and provoked the LORD to anger, / for they forsook Him and served Baal and the Ashtoreths.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/psalms/106-35.htm">Psalm 106:35-39</a></span><br />but they mingled with the nations and adopted their customs. / They worshiped their idols, which became a snare to them. / They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/2-11.htm">Jeremiah 2:11-13</a></span><br />Has a nation ever changed its gods? (Yet they are not gods at all.) But My people have exchanged their Glory for useless idols. / Be stunned by this, O heavens; be shocked and utterly appalled,” declares the LORD. / “For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living water, and they have dug their own cisterns—broken cisterns that cannot hold water.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/hosea/4-12.htm">Hosea 4:12-13</a></span><br />My people consult their wooden idols, and their divining rods inform them. For a spirit of prostitution leads them astray and they have played the harlot against their God. / They sacrifice on the mountaintops and burn offerings on the hills, under oak, poplar, and terebinth, because their shade is pleasant. And so your daughters turn to prostitution and your daughters-in-law to adultery.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_kings/11-4.htm">1 Kings 11:4-8</a></span><br />For when Solomon grew old, his wives turned his heart after other gods, and he was not wholeheartedly devoted to the LORD his God, as his father David had been. / Solomon followed Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians and Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites. / So Solomon did evil in the sight of the LORD; unlike his father David, he did not follow the LORD completely. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_kings/17-7.htm">2 Kings 17:7-12</a></span><br />All this happened because the people of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. They had worshiped other gods / and walked in the customs of the nations that the LORD had driven out before the Israelites, as well as in the practices introduced by the kings of Israel. / The Israelites secretly did things against the LORD their God that were not right. From watchtower to fortified city, they built high places in all their cities. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/1-4.htm">Isaiah 1:4</a></span><br />Alas, O sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a brood of evildoers, children who act corruptly! They have forsaken the LORD; they have despised the Holy One of Israel and turned their backs on Him.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ezekiel/8-10.htm">Ezekiel 8:10-12</a></span><br />So I went in and looked, and engraved all around the wall was every kind of crawling creature and detestable beast, along with all the idols of the house of Israel. / Before them stood seventy elders of the house of Israel, with Jaazaniah son of Shaphan standing among them. Each had a censer in his hand, and a fragrant cloud of incense was rising. / “Son of man,” He said to me, “do you see what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the darkness, each at the shrine of his own idol? For they are saying, ‘The LORD does not see us; the LORD has forsaken the land.’”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_chronicles/28-23.htm">2 Chronicles 28:23-25</a></span><br />He sacrificed to the gods of Damascus, who had defeated him, and he said, “Because the gods of the kings of Aram have helped them, I will sacrifice to them that they may help me.” But these gods were the downfall of Ahaz and of all Israel. / Then Ahaz gathered up the articles of the house of God, cut them into pieces, shut the doors of the house of the LORD, and set up altars of his own on every street corner in Jerusalem. / In every city of Judah he built high places to offer incense to other gods, and so he provoked the LORD, the God of his fathers.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_corinthians/10-20.htm">1 Corinthians 10:20-22</a></span><br />No, but the sacrifices of pagans are offered to demons, not to God. And I do not want you to be participants with demons. / You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons too; you cannot partake in the table of the Lord and the table of demons too. / Are we trying to provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than He?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/romans/1-21.htm">Romans 1:21-23</a></span><br />For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and darkened in their foolish hearts. / Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools, / and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images of mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/revelation/17-1.htm">Revelation 17:1-5</a></span><br />Then one of the seven angels with the seven bowls came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the punishment of the great prostitute, who sits on many waters. / The kings of the earth were immoral with her, and those who dwell on the earth were intoxicated with the wine of her immorality.” / And the angel carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness, where I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was covered with blasphemous names and had seven heads and ten horns. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/galatians/4-8.htm">Galatians 4:8</a></span><br />Formerly, when you did not know God, you were slaves to those who by nature are not gods.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/acts/17-29.htm">Acts 17:29-30</a></span><br />Therefore, being offspring of God, we should not think that the Divine Being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by man’s skill and imagination. / Although God overlooked the ignorance of earlier times, He now commands all people everywhere to repent.</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger.</p><p class="hdg">provoked</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/deuteronomy/5-9.htm">Deuteronomy 5:9</a></b></br> Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God <i>am</i> a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth <i>generation</i> of them that hate me,</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/1_kings/14-22.htm">1 Kings 14:22</a></b></br> 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.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/nahum/1-1.htm">Nahum 1:1,2</a></b></br> The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite… </p><p class="hdg">abominations</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/deuteronomy/7-25.htm">Deuteronomy 7:25</a></b></br> The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not desire the silver or gold <i>that is</i> on them, nor take <i>it</i> unto thee, lest thou be snared therein: for it <i>is</i> an abomination to the LORD thy God.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/leviticus/18-27.htm">Leviticus 18:27</a></b></br> (For all these abominations have the men of the land done, which <i>were</i> before you, and the land is defiled;)</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/2_kings/23-13.htm">2 Kings 23:13</a></b></br> And the high places that <i>were</i> before Jerusalem, which <i>were</i> 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.</p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/deuteronomy/20-18.htm">Abominable</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/29-17.htm">Abominations</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/31-29.htm">Anger</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/9-8.htm">Angered</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/9-22.htm">Angry</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/29-17.htm">Detestable</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/29-17.htm">Disgusting</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/32-3.htm">Honour</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/29-17.htm">Idols</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/6-15.htm">Jealous</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/29-20.htm">Jealousy</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/29-27.htm">Moved</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/20-18.htm">Practices</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/31-29.htm">Provoke</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/9-22.htm">Provoked</a> <a href="/acts/16-27.htm">Roused</a> <a href="/leviticus/7-12.htm">Stirred</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/32-12.htm">Strange</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/31-16.htm">Strangers</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/32-4.htm">Ways</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/29-28.htm">Wrath</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/6-15.htm">Zealous</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/1_kings/15-13.htm">Abominable</a> <a href="/1_kings/14-24.htm">Abominations</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/32-21.htm">Anger</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/32-19.htm">Angered</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/32-21.htm">Angry</a> <a href="/1_kings/11-5.htm">Detestable</a> <a href="/1_kings/11-5.htm">Disgusting</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/32-21.htm">Honour</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/32-21.htm">Idols</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/32-21.htm">Jealous</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/32-21.htm">Jealousy</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/32-21.htm">Moved</a> <a href="/judges/2-19.htm">Practices</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/32-21.htm">Provoke</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/32-21.htm">Provoked</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/32-21.htm">Roused</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/32-21.htm">Stirred</a> <a href="/joshua/24-20.htm">Strange</a> <a href="/joshua/8-35.htm">Strangers</a> <a href="/joshua/1-8.htm">Ways</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/32-21.htm">Wrath</a> <a href="/joshua/24-19.htm">Zealous</a><div class="vheading2">Deuteronomy 32</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/deuteronomy/32-1.htm">Moses' song, which sets forth God's mercy and vengeance</a></span><br><span class="reftext">46. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/deuteronomy/32-46.htm">He exhorts them to set their hearts upon it</a></span><br><span class="reftext">48. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/deuteronomy/32-48.htm">God sends him up to mount Nebo to see the land, and to die</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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The concept of God being "jealous" is rooted in His covenant relationship with Israel, akin to a marriage where fidelity is expected. In <a href="/exodus/20-5.htm">Exodus 20:5</a>, God describes Himself as a "jealous God," emphasizing His desire for exclusive worship. The "foreign gods" refer to the deities of surrounding nations, such as Baal and Asherah, which Israel was warned against in passages like <a href="/deuteronomy/7.htm">Deuteronomy 7:1-5</a>. This idolatry often led to syncretism, where Israel mixed the worship of Yahweh with pagan practices, violating the first commandment (<a href="/exodus/20-3.htm">Exodus 20:3</a>). Archaeological findings, such as altars and idols, corroborate the prevalence of such practices in ancient Israel.<p><b>they enraged Him with abominations.</b><br>The term "abominations" often refers to practices detestable to God, including idolatry, child sacrifice, and sexual immorality, as seen in <a href="/leviticus/18.htm">Leviticus 18 and 20</a>. These actions were not only religiously offensive but also morally corrupt, leading to societal decay. The "rage" of God is a response to the breach of covenant, reflecting His holiness and justice. This anger is not capricious but is a righteous response to sin, as seen in the prophetic literature (e.g., <a href="/jeremiah/25-6.htm">Jeremiah 25:6-7</a>). The abominations committed by Israel are contrasted with the holiness required by God, pointing to the need for repentance and foreshadowing the ultimate atonement through Jesus Christ, who fulfills the law and offers redemption from sin (<a href="/hebrews/9-26.htm">Hebrews 9:26</a>).<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/m/moses.htm">Moses</a></b><br>The author of Deuteronomy, delivering a song to the Israelites as a reminder of God's faithfulness and a warning against idolatry.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/i/israelites.htm">Israelites</a></b><br>The chosen people of God, who are being warned against turning to foreign gods and abandoning their covenant with Yahweh.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/f/foreign_gods.htm">Foreign gods</a></b><br>The idols and deities of surrounding nations that the Israelites were tempted to worship, leading them away from the true God.<br><br>4. <b><a href="/topical/y/yahweh.htm">Yahweh</a></b><br>The one true God, who is provoked to jealousy by the Israelites' idolatry and unfaithfulness.<br><br>5. <b><a href="/topical/p/promised_land.htm">Promised Land</a></b><br>The land of Canaan, where the Israelites are headed, and where they will face the temptation to adopt the practices of the nations around them.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/t/the_danger_of_idolatry.htm">The Danger of Idolatry</a></b><br>Idolatry is not just the worship of physical idols but can include anything that takes the place of God in our hearts. We must be vigilant in identifying and removing these idols from our lives.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/g/god's_jealousy.htm">God's Jealousy</a></b><br>God's jealousy is not like human jealousy; it is a righteous desire for His people to remain faithful to Him. Understanding this helps us appreciate the depth of His love and commitment to us.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/f/faithfulness_in_a_foreign_land.htm">Faithfulness in a Foreign Land</a></b><br>Just as the Israelites were called to remain faithful amidst foreign influences, Christians today are called to stand firm in their faith despite cultural pressures.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_consequences_of_unfaithfulness.htm">The Consequences of Unfaithfulness</a></b><br>Turning away from God leads to spiritual and sometimes physical consequences. Recognizing this can motivate us to remain steadfast in our devotion.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_call_to_repentance.htm">The Call to Repentance</a></b><br>When we recognize areas of unfaithfulness in our lives, we are called to repent and return to God, who is always ready to forgive and restore.<a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/deuteronomy/32.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 16.</span> - They provoked him to jealousy. God had bound Israel to himself as by the marriage bond, and they by their unfaithfulness had incited him to jealousy (cf. <a href="/deuteronomy/31-16.htm">Deuteronomy 31:16</a>; <a href="/exodus/34-15.htm">Exodus 34:15</a>; <a href="/isaiah/54-5.htm">Isaiah 54:5</a>; <a href="/hosea/1.htm">Hosea 1</a>, etc.). <span class="cmt_word">Strange</span> gods (cf. <a href="/jeremiah/2-25.htm">Jeremiah 2:25</a>; <a href="/jeremiah/3-13.htm">Jeremiah 3:13</a>). <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/deuteronomy/32-16.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">They provoked His jealousy</span><br /><span class="heb">יַקְנִאֻ֖הוּ</span> <span class="translit">(yaq·ni·’u·hū)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - third person masculine plural | third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7065.htm">Strong's 7065: </a> </span><span class="str2">To be, zealous, jealous, envious</span><br /><br /><span class="word">with foreign gods;</span><br /><span class="heb">בְּזָרִ֑ים</span> <span class="translit">(bə·zā·rîm)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-b | Adjective - masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2114.htm">Strong's 2114: </a> </span><span class="str2">To turn aside, to be a, foreigner, strange, profane, to commit adultery</span><br /><br /><span class="word">they enraged Him</span><br /><span class="heb">יַכְעִיסֻֽהוּ׃</span> <span class="translit">(yaḵ·‘î·su·hū)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - third person masculine plural | third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3707.htm">Strong's 3707: </a> </span><span class="str2">To trouble, to grieve, rage, be indignant</span><br /><br /><span class="word">with abominations.</span><br /><span class="heb">בְּתוֹעֵבֹ֖ת</span> <span class="translit">(bə·ṯō·w·‘ê·ḇōṯ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-b | Noun - feminine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_8441.htm">Strong's 8441: </a> </span><span class="str2">Something disgusting, an abhorrence, idolatry, an idol</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/deuteronomy/32-16.htm">Deuteronomy 32:16 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/deuteronomy/32-16.htm">Deuteronomy 32:16 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/deuteronomy/32-16.htm">Deuteronomy 32:16 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/deuteronomy/32-16.htm">Deuteronomy 32:16 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/deuteronomy/32-16.htm">Deuteronomy 32:16 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/deuteronomy/32-16.htm">Deuteronomy 32:16 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/deuteronomy/32-16.htm">Deuteronomy 32:16 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/deuteronomy/32-16.htm">Deuteronomy 32:16 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/deuteronomy/32-16.htm">Deuteronomy 32:16 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/deuteronomy/32-16.htm">Deuteronomy 32:16 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/deuteronomy/32-16.htm">OT Law: Deuteronomy 32:16 They moved him to jealousy with strange (Deut. 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