Deuteronomy 32:16

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They made him jealous with other gods, they enraged him with abhorrent idols.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 78:58 : 58 They made him angry with their pagan shrines, and made him jealous with their idols.
  • 1 Cor 10:22 : 22 Or are we trying to provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we really stronger than he is?
  • Nah 1:1-2 : 1 ¶ Introduction This is an oracle about Nineveh; the book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite: 2 God Takes Vengeance against His Enemies The LORD is a zealous and avenging God; the LORD is avenging and very angry. The LORD takes vengeance against his foes; he sustains his rage against his enemies.
  • Lev 18:27 : 27 for the people who were in the land before you have done all these abominations, and the land has become unclean.
  • Deut 5:9 : 9 You must not worship or serve them, for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God. I punish the sons, grandsons, and great-grandsons for the sin of the fathers who reject me,
  • Deut 7:25 : 25 You must burn the images of their gods, but do not covet the silver and gold that covers them so much that you take it for yourself and thus become ensnared by it; for it is abhorrent to the LORD your God.
  • 1 Kgs 14:22 : 22 Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD. They made him more jealous by their sins than their ancestors had done.
  • 2 Kgs 23:13 : 13 The king ruined the high places east of Jerusalem, south of the Mount of Destruction, that King Solomon of Israel had built for the detestable Sidonian goddess Astarte, the detestable Moabite god Chemosh, and the horrible Ammonite god Milcom.

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  • Ps 78:58-59
    2 verses
    84%

    58They made him angry with their pagan shrines, and made him jealous with their idols.

    59God heard and was angry; he completely rejected Israel.

  • Deut 32:21
    82%

    21They have made me jealous with false gods, enraging me with their worthless gods; so I will make them jealous with a people they do not recognize, with a nation slow to learn I will enrage them.

  • Deut 32:17-19
    3 verses
    78%

    17They sacrificed to demons, not God, to gods they had not known; to new gods who had recently come along, gods your ancestors had not known about.

    18You have forgotten the Rock who fathered you, and put out of mind the God who gave you birth.

    19A Word of Judgment But the LORD took note and despised them because his sons and daughters enraged him.

  • Judg 2:12
    78%

    12They abandoned the LORD God of their ancestors who brought them out of the land of Egypt. They followed other gods– the gods of the nations who lived around them. They worshiped them and made the LORD angry.

  • Ps 106:29
    76%

    29They made the LORD angry by their actions, and a plague broke out among them.

  • Neh 9:18
    76%

    18even when they made a cast image of a calf for themselves and said,‘This is your God who brought you up from Egypt,’ or when they committed atrocious blasphemies.

  • 2 Kgs 17:11-12
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    76%

    11They burned incense on all the high places just like the nations whom the LORD had driven away from before them. Their evil practices made the LORD angry.

    12They worshiped the disgusting idols in blatant disregard of the LORD’s command.

  • 1 Kgs 14:22
    75%

    22Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD. They made him more jealous by their sins than their ancestors had done.

  • Rom 10:19
    74%

    19But again I ask, didn’t Israel understand? First Moses says,“I will make you jealous by those who are not a nation; with a senseless nation I will provoke you to anger.”

  • Ps 78:56
    74%

    56Yet they challenged and defied God Most High, and did not obey his commands.

  • Ps 78:40-41
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    74%

    40How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, and insulted him in the wastelands!

    41They again challenged God, and offended the Holy One of Israel.

  • 2 Kgs 17:16-17
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    74%

    16They abandoned all the commandments of the LORD their God; they made two metal calves and an Asherah pole, bowed down to all the stars in the sky, and worshiped Baal.

    17They passed their sons and daughters through the fire, and practiced divination and omen reading. They committed themselves to doing evil in the sight of the LORD and made him angry.

  • Deut 32:15
    74%

    15Israel’s Rebellion But Jeshurun became fat and kicked, you got fat, thick, and stuffed! Then he deserted the God who made him, and treated the Rock who saved him with contempt.

  • Jer 44:3
    74%

    3This happened because of the wickedness the people living there did. They made me angry by worshiping and offering sacrifice to other gods whom neither they nor you nor your ancestors previously knew.

  • Exod 32:8
    74%

    8They have quickly turned aside from the way that I commanded them– they have made for themselves a molten calf and have bowed down to it and sacrificed to it and said,‘These are your gods, O Israel, which brought you up from the land of Egypt.’”

  • Deut 9:22
    73%

    22Moreover, you continued to provoke the LORD at Taberah, Massah, and Kibroth-Hattaavah.

  • Deut 29:26
    73%

    26They went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods they did not know and that he did not permit them to worship.

  • Ps 106:32-33
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    73%

    32They made him angry by the waters of Meribah, and Moses suffered because of them,

    33for they aroused his temper, and he spoke rashly.

  • Deut 6:15
    73%

    15for the LORD your God, who is present among you, is a jealous God and his anger will erupt against you and remove you from the land.

  • Jer 32:32
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    32I am determined to do so because the people of Israel and Judah have made me angry with all their wickedness– they, their kings, their officials, their priests, their prophets, and especially the people of Judah and the citizens of Jerusalem have done this wickedness.

  • Ps 78:17
    73%

    17Yet they continued to sin against him, and rebelled against the Most High in the desert.

  • Jer 7:19
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    19But I am not really the one being troubled!” says the LORD.“Rather they are bringing trouble on themselves to their own shame!

  • Neh 9:26
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    26“Nonetheless they grew disobedient and rebelled against you; they disregarded your law. They killed your prophets who had solemnly admonished them in order to cause them to return to you. They committed atrocious blasphemies.

  • Ps 106:16
    72%

    16In the camp they resented Moses, and Aaron, the LORD’s holy priest.

  • Exod 34:14
    72%

    14For you must not worship any other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.

  • Deut 9:8
    72%

    8At Horeb you provoked him and he was angry enough with you to destroy you.

  • Num 25:3
    72%

    3When Israel joined themselves to Baal-peor, the anger of the LORD flared up against Israel.

  • Ps 106:40
    72%

    40So the LORD was angry with his people and despised the people who belong to him.

  • Judg 2:20
    71%

    20A Divine Decision The LORD was furious with Israel. He said,“This nation has violated the terms of the covenant I made with their ancestors by disobeying me.

  • Ps 106:14
    71%

    14In the wilderness they had an insatiable craving for meat; they challenged God in the wastelands.

  • Num 32:14
    71%

    14Now look, you are standing in your fathers’ place, a brood of sinners, to increase still further the fierce wrath of the LORD against the Israelites.

  • Ps 78:21
    71%

    21When the LORD heard this, he was furious. A fire broke out against Jacob, and his anger flared up against Israel,

  • 2 Kgs 22:17
    71%

    17This will happen because they have abandoned me and offered sacrifices to other gods, angering me with all the idols they have made. My anger will ignite against this place and will not be extinguished!’”

  • Isa 65:3
    70%

    3These people continually and blatantly offend me as they sacrifice in their sacred orchards and burn incense on brick altars.

  • 2 Chr 28:25
    70%

    25In every city throughout Judah he set up high places to offer sacrifices to other gods. He angered the LORD God of his ancestors.

  • Lam 4:16
    70%

    16פ(Pe) The LORD himself has scattered them; he no longer watches over them. They did not honor the priests; they did not show favor to the elders.

  • Num 32:10
    70%

    10So the anger of the LORD was kindled that day, and he swore,

  • Jer 32:34
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    34They set up their disgusting idols in the temple which I have claimed for my own and defiled it.

  • Deut 31:20
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    20For after I have brought them to the land I promised to their ancestors– one flowing with milk and honey– and they eat their fill and become fat, then they will turn to other gods and worship them; they will reject me and break my covenant.

  • Jer 25:6
    70%

    6Do not pay allegiance to other gods and worship and serve them. Do not make me angry by the things that you do. Then I will not cause you any harm.’

  • Jer 44:8
    70%

    8That is what will result from your making me angry by what you are doing. You are making me angry by sacrificing to other gods here in the land of Egypt where you live. You will be destroyed for doing that! You will become an example used in curses and an object of ridicule among all the nations of the earth.

  • 1 Kgs 16:33
    70%

    33Ahab also made an Asherah pole; he did more to anger the LORD God of Israel than all the kings of Israel who were before him.

  • Neh 9:16
    70%

    16“But they– our ancestors– behaved presumptuously; they rebelled and did not obey your commandments.