Parallel Verses

NET Bible

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

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.

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 unfaithful and acted as treacherously as their ancestors; they were as unreliable as a malfunctioning bow. 58 They made him angry with their pagan shrines, and made him jealous with their idols. 59 God heard and was angry; he completely rejected Israel.

Cross References

Leviticus 26:30

I will destroy your high places and cut down your incense altars, and I will stack your dead bodies on top of the lifeless bodies of your idols. I will abhor you.

Deuteronomy 32:21

They 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.

Deuteronomy 12:2

You must by all means destroy all the places where the nations you are about to dispossess worship their gods -- on the high mountains and hills and under every leafy tree.

1 Kings 11:7

Furthermore, on the hill east of Jerusalem Solomon built a high place for the detestable Moabite god Chemosh and for the detestable Ammonite god Milcom.

1 Kings 12:31

He built temples on the high places and appointed as priests people who were not Levites.

Exodus 20:4-5

"You shall not make for yourself a carved image or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above or that is on the earth beneath or that is in the water below.

Exodus 34:14

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

Numbers 33:52

you must drive out all the inhabitants of the land before you. Destroy all their carved images, all their molten images, and demolish their high places.

Deuteronomy 4:16-25

I say this so you will not corrupt yourselves by making an image in the form of any kind of figure. This includes the likeness of a human male or female,

Deuteronomy 12:4

You must not worship the Lord your God the way they worship.

Deuteronomy 27:15

Cursed is the one who makes a carved or metal image -- something abhorrent to the Lord, the work of the craftsman -- and sets it up in a secret place.' Then all the people will say, 'Amen!'

Deuteronomy 32:16-17

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

Judges 2:11-12

The Israelites did evil before the Lord by worshiping the Baals.

Judges 2:17

But they did not obey their leaders. Instead they prostituted themselves to other gods and worshiped them. They quickly turned aside from the path their ancestors had walked. Their ancestors had obeyed the Lord's commands, but they did not.

Judges 2:20

The Lord was furious with Israel. He said, "This nation has violated the terms of the agreement I made with their ancestors by disobeying me.

Judges 10:6

The Israelites again did evil in the Lord's sight. They worshiped the Baals and the Ashtars, as well as the gods of Syria, Sidon, Moab, the Ammonites, and the Philistines. They abandoned the Lord and did not worship him.

1 Kings 11:10

and had warned him about this very thing, so that he would not follow other gods. But he did not obey the Lord's command.

Psalm 79:5

How long will this go on, O Lord? Will you stay angry forever? How long will your rage burn like fire?

Psalm 97:7

All who worship idols are ashamed, those who boast about worthless idols. All the gods bow down before him.

Jeremiah 8:19

I hear my dear people crying out throughout the length and breadth of the land. They are crying, 'Is the Lord no longer in Zion? Is her divine King no longer there?'" The Lord answers, "Why then do they provoke me to anger with their images, with their worthless foreign idols?"

Ezekiel 8:3-5

He stretched out the form of a hand and grabbed me by a lock of hair on my head. Then a wind lifted me up between the earth and sky and brought me to Jerusalem by means of divine visions, to the door of the inner gate which faces north where the statue which provokes to jealousy was located.

Ezekiel 20:28-29

I brought them to the land which I swore to give them, but whenever they saw any high hill or leafy tree, they offered their sacrifices there and presented the offerings that provoke me to anger. They offered their soothing aroma there and poured out their drink offerings.

Hosea 13:2

Even now they persist in sin! They make metal images for themselves, idols that they skillfully fashion from their own silver; all of them are nothing but the work of craftsmen! There is a saying about them: "Those who sacrifice to the calf idol are calf kissers!"

1 Corinthians 10:22

Or are we trying to provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we really stronger than he is?

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