Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
They made him jealous with strange [gods]; with detestable things they provoked him.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger.
Holman Bible
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.
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.
Themes
Abomination » Things that are, to God » Idolatry
Jews, the » Often displeased God by their sins
Reproof » Faithfulness in » Instances of » Moses, of the israelites
Interlinear
Qana'
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Deuteronomy 32:16
Verse Info
Context Readings
Israel's Rebellion
15 And Jeshurun grew fat, and he kicked; you grew fat, you bloated, and you became obstinate; and he abandoned God, his maker, and he scoffed [at] the rock of his salvation. 16 They made him jealous with strange [gods]; with detestable things they provoked him. 17 They sacrificed to the demons, not God, [to] gods whom they had not known, new [gods] [who] came from recent times; {their ancestors had not known them}.
Cross References
Psalm 78:58
For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and made him jealous with their images.
1 Corinthians 10:22
Or are we attempting to provoke the Lord to jealousy? We are not stronger than he [is, are we]?
Leviticus 18:27
(because the people of the land, who [were] {before you}, did all these detestable things, so the land became unclean),
Deuteronomy 5:9
'You shall not bow down to them, and you shall not serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, [am] a jealous God, punishing the guilt of fathers upon [their] children and upon [the] third and upon [the] fourth generation of [those] hating me,
Deuteronomy 7:25
You shall burn the images of their gods with fire; you shall not covet [the] silver or gold [that is] on them, and [so] you take [it] for yourself, so that you are not ensnared by it, for it [is] a detestable thing to Yahweh your God.
1 Kings 14:22
But Judah did evil in the eyes of Yahweh, and they annoyed him more than their fathers did with their sins that they had committed.
2 Kings 23:13
The high places which [were] east of Jerusalem, which [were] on the south of the Mountain of Destruction which Solomon king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians and for Chemosh the abomination of Moab and for Molech the detestable thing of the {Ammonites}, the king defiled.
Nahum 1:1-2
The oracle concerning Nineveh-- the scroll of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite: