Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

They made Him jealous with strange gods;
With abominations they provoked Him to anger.

King James Version

They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger.

Holman Bible

They provoked His jealousy with foreign gods;
they enraged Him with detestable practices.

International Standard Version

They provoked him to jealousy over foreigners and to anger over detestable things.

A Conservative Version

They moved him to jealousy with strange [gods]. With abominations they provoked him to anger.

American Standard Version

They moved him to jealousy with strange gods ; With abominations provoked they him to anger.

Amplified


“They provoked Him to jealousy with strange gods [by denying Him the honor and loyalty that is rightfully and uniquely His];
And with repulsive acts they provoked Him to anger.

Bible in Basic English

The honour which was his they gave to strange gods; by their disgusting ways he was moved to wrath.

Darby Translation

They moved him to jealousy with strange gods, With abominations did they provoke him to anger.

Julia Smith Translation

He will cause him to be jealous with strangers, With abominations they will irritate him.

King James 2000

They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations they provoked him to anger.

Lexham Expanded Bible

They made him jealous with strange [gods]; with detestable things they provoked him.

Modern King James verseion

They provoked Him to jealousy with strange gods; with abominations they provoked Him to anger.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

They angered him with strange gods, and with abominations provoked him.

NET Bible

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

New Heart English Bible

They moved him to jealousy with strange gods. They provoked him to anger with abominations.

The Emphasized Bible

They moved him to jealousy with foreign gods , - With abominations, angered they him:

Webster

They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations they provoked him to anger.

World English Bible

They moved him to jealousy with strange [gods]. They provoked him to anger with abominations.

Youngs Literal Translation

They make Him zealous with strangers, With abominations they make Him angry.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
קנא 
Qana' 
Usage: 34

תּעבה תּועבה 
Tow`ebah 
Usage: 117

References

Morish

Smith

Context Readings

Israel's Rebellion

15 But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked—
You are grown fat, thick, and sleek—
Then he forsook God who made him,
And scorned the Rock of his salvation.
16 They made Him jealous with strange gods;
With abominations they provoked Him to anger.
17 They sacrificed to demons who were not God,
To gods whom they have not known,
New gods who came lately,
Whom your fathers did not dread.



Cross References

Psalm 78:58

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

1 Corinthians 10:22

Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? We are not stronger than He, are we?

Leviticus 18:27

(for the men of the land who have been before you have done all these abominations, and the land has become defiled);

Deuteronomy 5:9

You shall not worship them or serve them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the third and the fourth generations of those who hate Me,

Deuteronomy 7:25

The graven images of their gods you are to burn with fire; you shall not covet the silver or the gold that is on them, nor take it for yourselves, or you will be snared by it, for it is an abomination to the Lord your God.

1 Kings 14:22

Judah did evil in the sight of the Lord, and they provoked Him to jealousy more than all that their fathers had done, with the sins which they committed.

2 Kings 23:13

The high places which were before Jerusalem, which were on the right of the mount of destruction which Solomon the king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Milcom the abomination of the sons of Ammon, the king defiled.

Nahum 1:1-2

The oracle of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.

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