Deuteronomy 32:16

Deuteronomy 32:16 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger.
• New International Version (NIV)They made him jealous with their foreign gods and angered him with their detestable idols.
• English Standard Version (ESV)They stirred him to jealousy with strange gods; with abominations they provoked him to anger.
• New King James Version (NKJV)They provoked Him to jealousy with foreign gods; With abominations they provoked Him to anger.

Context of Deuteronomy 32:16

14curds from the herd and milk from the flock, with the fat of lambs, rams from Bashan, and goats, with the choicest grains of wheat; you drank wine from the finest grapes. 15Then Jeshurun became fat and rebelled — you became fat, bloated, and gorged. He abandoned the God who made him and scorned the Rock of his salvation. They provoked his jealousy with different gods; they enraged him with detestable practices. 17They sacrificed to demons, not God, to gods they had not known, new gods that had just arrived, which your ancestors did not fear. 18You ignored the Rock who gave you birth; you forgot the God who gave birth to you.

Deuteronomy 32:16 word by word

יַקְנִאֻ֖הוּ בְּזָרִ֑ים בְּתוֹעֵבֹ֖ת יַכְעִיסֻֽהוּ׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• They provoked him to jealousyקָנָאqânâ' · be jealousH7065
• with strangeזוּרzûr · be a strangerH2114
• with abominationsתּוֹעֵבַהtô‛êbah tô‛êbah · abominationH8441
• provoked they him to angerכָּעַסka‛as · to provokeH3707

Cross-references for Deuteronomy 32:16

• Deuteronomy 5:9Do not bow in worship to them, and do not serve them, because I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, bringing the consequences of the fathers’ iniquity on the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate me,
• 1 Kings 14:22Judah did what was evil in the Lord’s sight. They provoked him to jealous anger more than all that their ancestors had done with the sins they committed.
• Nahum 1:1The pronouncement concerning Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.
• 1 Corinthians 10:22Or are we provoking the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?
• Deuteronomy 7:25Burn up the carved images of their gods. Don’t covet the silver and gold on the images and take it for yourself, or else you will be ensnared by it, for it is detestable to the Lord your God.
• Leviticus 18:27For the people who were in the land prior to you have committed all these detestable acts, and the land has become defiled.
• 2 Kings 23:13The king also defiled the high places that were across from Jerusalem, to the south of the Mount of Destruction, which King Solomon of Israel had built for Ashtoreth, the abhorrent idol of the Sidonians; for Chemosh, the abhorrent idol of Moab; and for Milcom, the detestable idol of the Ammonites.

Commentaries on Deuteronomy 32:16

• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 1-42Verses 1-42 Song of Moses If Deuteronomy 32:1-3 be regarded as the introduction, and Deuteronomy 32:43 as the conclusion, the main contents of the song may be grouped under three heads, namely, (1) Deuteronomy 32:4-18, the faithfulness of God, the faithlessness of Israel; (2) Deuteronomy 32:19-33, the chastisement and the need of its infliction by God; (3) Deuteronomy 32:34-42, God‘s compassion upon the low and humbled state of His people. The Song…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 15-18Verses 15-18 Here are two instances of the wickedness of Israel, each was apostacy from God. These people were called Jeshurun, "an upright people," so some; "a seeing people," so others: but they soon lost the reputation both of their knowledge and of their righteousness. They indulged their appetites, as if they had nothing to do but to make provision for the flesh to fulfil the lusts of it. Those who make a god of themselves, and a god of their…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 16His jealousy: See study note on 4:24. Just as a husband is rightfully jealous when another man tries to take his wife away, God was jealous when Israel worshiped other gods (Proverbs 6:34).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-431. Give ear, O ye heavens; ... hear, O earth--The magnificence of the exordium, the grandeur of the theme, the frequent and sudden transitions, the elevated strain of the sentiments and language, entitle this song to be ranked amongst the noblest specimens of poetry to be found in the Scriptures.Read the comment

Topics related to Deuteronomy 32:16

• Abomination
• Backsliders
• Death
• God Continued...
• Idolatry
• Instruction
• Jealousy
• Psalms
• Reproof

In the dictionaries

• Strange Gods
• Cease
• Crooked
• Drunk
• Esteem
• Faith
• Froward
• Kick
• Moses
• Protection

Commentaries on Deuteronomy 32

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings