Deuteronomy 32:21

Because they provoked God with no-gods and worthless idols, He will provoke them through a non-people, a foolish nation. It matters because God's judgment fittingly mirrors their sin.

Cross-references · 17

• Rom 10:19But I ask, didn’t Israel know? First Moses says, “I will provoke you to jealousy with that which is no nation, with a nation void of understanding I will make you angry.”
• Rom 9:25As he says also in Hosea, “I will call them ‘my people,’ which were not my people; and her ‘beloved,’ who was not beloved.”
• Rom 11:11–14I ask then, did they stumble that they might fall? May it never be! But by their fall salvation has come to the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy.
• 1 Kgs 16:26For he walked in all the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and in his sins with which he made Israel to sin, to provoke Yahweh, the God of Israel, to anger with their vanities.
• 1 Kgs 16:13for all the sins of Baasha, and the sins of Elah his son, which they sinned, and with which they made Israel to sin, to provoke Yahweh, the God of Israel, to anger with their vanities.
• Deut 32:16They moved him to jealousy with strange gods. They provoked him to anger with abominations.
• Ps 78:58For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their engraved images.
• Jonah 2:8Those who regard lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
• Ps 31:6I hate those who regard lying vanities, but I trust in Yahweh.
• Jer 14:22Are there any among the vanities of the nations that can cause rain? Or can the sky give showers? Aren’t you he, Yahweh our God? Therefore we will wait for you; for you have made all these things.
• Hos 1:10Yet the number of the children of Israel will be as the sand of the sea, which can’t be measured or counted; and it will come to pass that, in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’
• Jer 8:19Behold, the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people from a land that is very far off: “Isn’t Yahweh in Zion? Isn’t her King in her?” “Why have they provoked me to anger with their engraved images, and with foreign vanities?”
• 1 Sam 12:21Don’t turn aside to go after vain things which can’t profit or deliver, for they are vain.
• Acts 11:15As I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them, even as on us at the beginning.
• 1 Cor 10:22Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?
• Jer 10:8But they are together brutish and foolish, instructed by idols! It is just wood.
• 1 Pet 2:9–10But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:

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