Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

For they provoked Him with their high places
And aroused His jealousy with their graven images.

King James Version

For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.

Holman Bible

They enraged Him with their high places
and provoked His jealousy with their carved images.

International Standard Version

they angered him with their high places and with their carved images they made him jealous.

A Conservative Version

For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.

American Standard Version

For they provoked him to anger with their high places, And moved him to jealousy with their graven images.

Amplified


For they provoked Him to [righteous] anger with their high places [devoted to idol worship]
And moved Him to jealousy with their carved images [by denying Him the love, worship, and obedience that is rightfully and uniquely His].

Bible in Basic English

They made him angry with their high places; moving him to wrath with their images.

Darby Translation

And they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.

Julia Smith Translation

And they will make him angry with their heights, and they will provoke him to jealousy with their carved images.

King James 2000

For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.

Lexham Expanded Bible

For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and made him jealous with their images.

Modern King James verseion

For they provoked Him to anger with their high places, and moved Him to jealousy with their carved images.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

And so they grieved him with their high places, and provoked him with their images.

NET Bible

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

New Heart English Bible

For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their engraved images.

The Emphasized Bible

And provoked him to anger with their high places, And, with their images, used to move him to jealousy.

Webster

For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.

World English Bible

For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their engraved images.

Youngs Literal Translation

And make Him angry with their high places, And with their graven images make Him zealous,

References

Hastings

Context Readings

Lessons From Israel's Past

57 They were disloyal and treacherous like their ancestors. They were like arrows shot from a defective bow. 58 For they provoked Him with their high places
And aroused His jealousy with their graven images.
59 When God heard, he became furious. He greatly abhorred Israel.


Cross References

Leviticus 26:30

I will destroy your worship sites. I will cut down your incense altars and pile your dead bodies on top of your dead idols. I will view you with disgust.

Deuteronomy 32:21

They made him furious because they worshiped foreign gods. They angered him because they worshiped worthless idols. So I will use those who are not my people to make them jealous and a nation of godless fools to make them angry.

Deuteronomy 12:2

Destroy all the places where the nations you dispossess serve their gods, on the high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree.

1 Kings 11:7

Then Solomon put up a high place for Chemosh, the disgusting god of Moab, in the mountain near Jerusalem. And for Molech, the disgusting god worshipped by the children of Ammon.

1 Kings 12:31

Jeroboam built worship sites on hilltops. He appointed men who were not descended from Levi to be priests.

Exodus 20:4-5

Do not make your own carved idols or statues that represent any creature in the sky, on the earth, or in the water.

Exodus 34:14

Do not worship any other god but Jehovah for his reputation is filled with zeal, and he is a God who demands exclusive devotion.

Numbers 33:52

As you advance, force out all the people who live there. Get rid of all their stone and metal idols, and destroy all their places of worship.

Deuteronomy 4:16-25

Do not commit the sin of worshiping idols. Do not make idols to be worshiped, whether they are shaped like men, women,

Deuteronomy 12:4

Do not worship Jehovah your God with such things.

Deuteronomy 27:15

Cursed is the man who makes an idol or a molten image. It is an abomination to Jehovah! It is the secret work of the hands of the craftsman. All the people will answer: Amen.

Deuteronomy 32:16-17

They made God furious because they worshiped foreign gods and angered him (stirred up his zeal) because they worshiped worthless idols.

Judges 2:11-12

The children of Israel did evil in the sight of Jehovah, and served Baalim:

Judges 2:17

Yet they would not listen to their judges, but prostituted themselves to other gods. They worshiped them. They turned quickly, out of the way in which their fathers walked obeying the commandments of Jehovah.

Judges 2:20

The anger of Jehovah was hot against Israel. He said: Because this people have transgressed my covenant, which I commanded their fathers, and have not listened to my voice;

Judges 10:6

Once again the Israelites did evil against Jehovah by worshiping the Baals and the Astartes. They also worshiped the gods of Syria, of Sidon, of Moab, of Ammon, and of the Philistines. They abandoned Jehovah and stopped worshiping him.

1 Kings 11:10

Jehovah had given him orders about this very thing that he was not to go after other gods. But he did not obey the orders of Jehovah.

Psalm 79:5

How long, O Jehovah? Will you remain angry forever? Will your fury (zeal) continue to burn like fire?

Psalm 97:7

All those who serve graven images are put to shame. Those who boast themselves in idols and all God-like ones bow down before Him.

Jeremiah 8:19

Behold, listen! The cry of the daughter of my people from a distant land: Is Jehovah not in Zion? Is her King not within her? Why have they provoked me with their graven images, with foreign idols?

Ezekiel 8:3-5

It stretched out what looked like a hand and grabbed me by the hair on my head. In these visions from God, the Spirit carried me between heaven and earth. He took me in vision to Jerusalem, to the entrance of the north gate of the inner court, where the seat of the idol of jealousy, which provokes to jealousy, was located.

Ezekiel 20:28-29

I brought them to the land I had promised to give them. When they saw the high hills and green trees, they offered sacrifices at all of them. They made me angry by the sacrifices they burned and by the wine they brought as offerings.

Hosea 13:2

They sin more and more. They make idols from silver for themselves. These idols are skillfully made. All of them are the work of craftsmen. People say this about the Israelites: They offer sacrifices and kiss calf-shaped idols.

1 Corinthians 10:22

Do we provoke Jehovah to rivalry (indignation) (anger)? Are we stronger than he?

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