Verse 16

They made Him jealous with strange gods and provoked Him to anger with detestable practices.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 78:58 : 58 They angered Him with their high places and provoked His jealousy with their carved images.
  • 1 Cor 10:22 : 22 Or are we trying to provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than He is?
  • Nah 1:1-2 : 1 This is a pronouncement concerning Nineveh, the book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite. 2 The Lord is a jealous and avenging God; the Lord takes vengeance and is filled with wrath. The Lord takes vengeance on his adversaries and reserves wrath for his enemies.
  • Lev 18:27 : 27 For all these abominations were committed by the people who lived in the land before you, and the land was defiled.
  • Deut 5:9 : 9 You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the iniquity of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate Me.
  • Deut 7:25 : 25 You must burn the carved images of their gods in the fire. Do not covet the silver or gold on them, and do not take it for yourself, or you will be ensnared by it. For it is detestable to the LORD your God.
  • 1 Kgs 14:22 : 22 Judah did evil in the eyes of the LORD. By the sins they committed, they aroused His jealous anger more than their ancestors had done.
  • 2 Kgs 23:13 : 13 The king also defiled the high places east of Jerusalem, on the south of the Mount of Corruption, which Solomon, the king of Israel, had built for Ashtoreth, the detestable idol of the Sidonians, for Chemosh, the detestable idol of Moab, and for Milcom, the abomination of the Ammonites.