Psalms 106:29

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Thus they provoked him to anger with their doings; And the plague brake in upon them.

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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A highly literal, word-for-word translation (ASV, 1901) augmented with Strong's numbering to connect English words to underlying Hebrew and Greek terms for study.

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Formal equivalence: Prioritizes close alignment with source-language forms and structures.
Divine name rendering: Frequently renders the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah in the Old Testament, following ASV tradition.
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Older textual basis compared to some modern translations
Strong's numbers are a concordance index, not full lexical definitions

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Referenced Verses

Num 25:9 : 9 And those that died by the plague were twenty and four thousand.
Deut 32:16-21 : 16 They moved him to jealousy with strange [gods]; With abominations provoked they him to anger. 17 They sacrificed unto demons, [which were] no God, To gods that they knew not, To new [gods] that came up of late, Which your fathers dreaded not. 18 Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, And hast forgotten God that gave thee birth. 19 And Jehovah saw [it], and abhorred [them], Because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters. 20 And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be: For they are a very perverse generation, Children in whom is no faithfulness. 21 They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; They have provoked me to anger with their vanities: And I will move them to jealousy with those that are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
Ps 99:8 : 8 Thou answeredst them, O Jehovah our God: Thou wast a God that forgavest them, Though thou tookest vengeance of their doings.
Ps 106:39 : 39 Thus were they defiled with their works, And played the harlot in their doings.
Eccl 7:29 : 29 Behold, this only have I found: that God made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
Rom 1:21-24 : 21 because that, knowing God, they glorified him not as God, neither gave thanks; but became vain in their reasonings, and their senseless heart was darkened. 22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, 23 and changed the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things. 24 Wherefore God {G2532} gave them up in the lusts of their hearts unto uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves:
1 Cor 10:8 : 8 Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

Ps 106:35-40
6 verses
80%
35But mingled themselves with the nations, And learned their works,
36And served their idols, Which became a snare unto them.
37Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto demons,
38And shed innocent blood, Even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, Whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan; And the land was polluted with blood.
39Thus were they defiled with their works, And played the harlot in their doings.
40Therefore was the wrath of Jehovah kindled against his people, And he abhorred his inheritance.
Ps 106:30
77%
30Then stood up Phinehas, and executed judgment; And so the plague was stayed.
Ps 106:23-28
6 verses
77%
23Therefore he said that he would destroy them, Had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach, To turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy [them].
24Yea, they despised the pleasant land, They believed not his word,
25But murmured in their tents, And hearkened not unto the voice of Jehovah.
26Therefore he sware unto them, That he would overthrow them in the wilderness,
27And that he would overthrow their seed among the nations, And scatter them in the lands.
28They joined themselves also unto Baal-peor, And ate the sacrifices of the dead.
Ps 106:32-33
2 verses
77%
32They angered him also at the waters of Meribah, So that it went ill with Moses for their sakes;
33Because they were rebellious against his spirit, And he spake unadvisedly with his lips.
Deut 32:16
76%
16They moved him to jealousy with strange [gods]; With abominations provoked they him to anger.
Num 31:16
76%
16Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against Jehovah in the matter of Peor, and so the plague was among the congregation of Jehovah.
Ps 78:58-59
2 verses
76%
58For they provoked him to anger with their high places, And moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
59When God heard [this], he was wroth, And greatly abhorred Israel;
Num 11:33
75%
33While the flesh was yet between their teeth, ere it was chewed, the anger of Jehovah was kindled against the people, and Jehovah smote the people with a very great plague.
Ps 78:49-50
2 verses
74%
49He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, Wrath, and indignation, and trouble, A band of angels of evil.
50He made a path for his anger; He spared not their soul from death, But gave their life over to the pestilence,
Num 25:3
74%
3And Israel joined himself unto Baal-peor: and the anger of Jehovah was kindled against Israel.
Num 25:18
74%
18for they vex you with their wiles, wherewith they have beguiled you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of the prince of Midian, their sister, who was slain on the day of the plague in the matter of Peor.
Ps 106:14
74%
14But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, And tempted God in the desert.
Ps 78:30-32
3 verses
74%
30They were not estranged from that which they desired, Their food was yet in their mouths,
31When the anger of God went up against them, And slew of the fattest of them, And smote down the young men of Israel.
32For all this they sinned still, And believed not in his wondrous works.
Ps 78:56
74%
56Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God, And kept not his testimonies;
Neh 9:18
74%
18Yea, when they had made them a molten calf, and said, This is thy God that brought thee up out of Egypt, and had wrought great provocations;
Ps 78:40-41
2 verses
74%
40How oft did they rebel against him in the wilderness, And grieve him in the desert!
41And they turned again and tempted God, And provoked the Holy One of Israel.
Ps 106:43
73%
43Many times did he deliver them; But they were rebellious in their counsel, And were brought low in their iniquity.
Ps 78:17-18
2 verses
73%
17Yet went they on still to sin against him, To rebel against the Most High in the desert.
18And they tempted God in their heart By asking food according to their desire.
Deut 9:22
73%
22And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah, ye provoked Jehovah to wrath.
Ps 106:18-20
3 verses
73%
18And a fire was kindled in their company; The flame burned up the wicked.
19They made a calf in Horeb, And worshipped a molten image.
20Thus they changed their glory For the likeness of an ox that eateth grass.
Exod 32:35
72%
35And Jehovah smote the people, because they made the calf, which Aaron made.
Neh 9:26
72%
26Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their back, and slew thy prophets that testified against them to turn them again unto thee, and they wrought great provocations.
2 Kgs 17:17
71%
17And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, to provoke him to anger.
2 Kgs 17:11
71%
11and there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the nations whom Jehovah carried away before them; and they wrought wicked things to provoke Jehovah to anger;
Ps 105:29
71%
29He turned their waters into blood, And slew their fish.
Deut 9:8
71%
8Also in Horeb ye provoked Jehovah to wrath, and Jehovah was angry with you to destroy you.
Num 25:8
70%
8and he went after the man of Israel into the pavilion, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her body. So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel.
Deut 29:27
70%
27therefore the anger of Jehovah was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curse that is written in this book;
Ps 106:16
70%
16They envied Moses also in the camp, [And] Aaron the saint of Jehovah.
Heb 3:17
69%
17And with whom was he displeased forty years? was it not with them that sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?