Deuteronomy 32:16
in Deuteronomy 32They provoked His jealousy with foreign gods; they enraged Him with abominations.
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ASV
They moved him to jealousy with strange gods; With abominations provoked they him to anger.
KJV
They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger.
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This verse in Deuteronomy 32
Commentary
7 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked
on Deuteronomy 32:15-16
Jeshurun stands four times in Scripture, here and at 33:5 and 33:26 and again at Isaiah 44:2, and commentators take it from the root for upright, which makes the name affectionate and its use here bitter. What ruins Jeshurun is the danger 6:10-12 and 8:11-14 already named, which is having enough. Lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation sets the failure directly against the name given at verse 4.
The record, by era
The Medieval Church1 voice
A commentator
BonaventureCollationes de Decem Praeceptis, Collation 2 · Written in the 13th century.
proposed
In the first word: You shall not have strange gods before me, all profane pacts with demons are prohibited, whether they be made through incantations of words, or through inscriptions of characters or images, or through immolations of sacrifices. All these Augustine calls pacts with …
The Puritans and the Awakening4 voices
20 And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be: for they are a very froward generation, children in whom is no faith. 21 They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people;
quarantine:scripture (2026-07-29) — verbatim-scripture
To jealousy - To anger and fury, for jealousy is the rage of a man. And withall it implies the ground of his anger, their falseness to God whom they had accepted as their husband, and their spiritual whoredom with other gods.
They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods,....
A prediction of the wasting destroying judgments which God would bring upon them for their sins, in which God is here justified by the many aggravations of their impieties,
1 more voice on this verse
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
If there were any spirits or invisible powers that possessed their idol-temples and images, they were evil spirits and malignant powers, whom yet they did not need to worship for fear they should hurt them, as they say the Indians do; for those that faithfully worship God are out of the devil's reach: nay, the devil can destroy those only that sacrifice to him.
The words behind it
4 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| יַקְנִאֻ֖הוּ | yakniuhu | they made jealous him | H7065 → | 34 times |
| בְּזָרִ֑ים | bezarim | by strange [gods] | H2114 → | |
| בְּתוֹעֵבֹ֖ת | betoevot | by abominations | H8441 → | 117 times |
| יַכְעִיסֻֽהוּ׃ | yakhisuhu | they provoked to anger him | H3707 → | 54 times |
יַקְנִאֻ֖הוּthey made jealous him
yakniuhuH7065 →34 times
בְּזָרִ֑יםby strange [gods]
bezarimH2114 →
בְּתוֹעֵבֹ֖תby abominations
betoevotH8441 →117 times
יַכְעִיסֻֽהוּ׃they provoked to anger him
yakhisuhuH3707 →54 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
1 Corinthians 10:22Are we trying to provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than He?
it leads to
- Deuteronomy 32:21
They have provoked My jealousy by that which is not God; they have enraged Me with their worthless idols. So I will make them jealous by those who are not a people; I will…
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Hebrews 10:31
It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
- Deuteronomy 32:21
Through
1 Kings 14:22And Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD, and by the sins they committed they provoked Him to jealous anger more than all their fathers had done.
it leads to
- 1 Corinthians 10:22
Are we trying to provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than He?
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Psalms 78:58
They enraged Him with their high places and provoked His jealousy with their idols.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- 2 Chronicles 12:1
After Rehoboam had established his sovereignty and royal power, he and all Israel with him forsook the Law of the LORD.
- 1 Corinthians 10:22
Through
Deuteronomy 7:25You must burn up the images of their gods; do not covet the silver and gold that is on them or take it for yourselves, or you will be ensnared by it; for it…
it leads to
- Exodus 32:20
Then he took the calf they had made, burned it in the fire, ground it to powder, and scattered the powder over the face of the water. Then he forced the Israelites to drink…
- 1 Chronicles 14:12
There the Philistines abandoned their gods, and David ordered that they be burned in the fire.
- Exodus 32:20
Through
Psalms 78:58They enraged Him with their high places and provoked His jealousy with their idols.
it leads to
- Leviticus 26:30
I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and heap your lifeless bodies on the lifeless remains of your idols; and My soul will despise you.
- Leviticus 26:30
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About Deuteronomy
This page draws on Bonaventure, Collationes de Decem Praeceptis, Collation 2; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament; Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.