Deuteronomy 32:16Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
They provoked him by strange gods, and stirred him up to anger, with their abominations.
יַקְנִאֻ֖הוּ בְּזָרִ֑ים בְּתוֹעֵבֹ֖ת יַכְעִיסֻֽהוּ׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Ps 78 (77):58
- 1 Cor 10:22Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he? All things are lawful for me: but all things are not expedient.
- Nah 1:1The burden of Ninive. The book of the vision of Nahum, the Elcesite.
- Nah 1:2The Lord is a jealous God, and a revenger: the Lord is a revenger, and hath wrath: the Lord taketh vengeance on his adversaries, and he is angry with his enemies.
- Deut 5:9Thou shalt not adore them, and thou shalt not serve them. For I am the Lord thy God, a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon their children unto the third and fourth generation, to them that hate me,
- Lev 18:27For all these detestable things the inhabitants of the land have done, that were before you, and have defiled it.
- Deut 7:25Their graven things thou shalt burn with fire: thou shalt not covet the silver and gold of which they are made, neither shalt thou take to thee any thing thereof, lest thou offend, because it is an abomination to the Lord thy God.