For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
Parallel translations
- WEB For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their engraved images.
- BSB They enraged Him with their high places and provoked His jealousy with their idols.
- NKJV For they provoked Him to anger with their high places, And moved Him to jealousy with their carved images.
- NASB For they provoked Him with their high places And moved Him to jealousy with their carved images.
- NLT They angered God by building shrines to other gods; they made him jealous with their idols.
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They provoked God with idolatrous high places and images. Their idolatry stirred His jealousy.
Overview
Israel 'provoked him to anger with their high places' and 'engraved images,' breaking the first commandments. God's jealousy is the rightful response of a covenant Lord to His people's spiritual adultery. Such idolatry highlights the exclusive devotion God deserves, fully satisfied only in worship of Him through Christ.
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- Deut 32:21They 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; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
- Lev 26:30And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.
- 1 Kgs 12:31And he made an house of high places, and made priests of the lowest of the people, which were not of the sons of Levi.
- 1 Cor 10:22Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?
- 1 Kgs 11:7Then did Solomon build an high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, in the hill that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abomination of the children of Ammon.
- Deut 32:16–17They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger.
- Exod 20:4–5Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:
- Deut 12:2Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree:
- Judg 2:11–12And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim:
- Deut 12:4Ye shall not do so unto the LORD your God.
- 1 Kgs 11:10And had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods: but he kept not that which the LORD commanded.
- Ps 79:5How long, LORD? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire?
- Deut 4:16–25Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,
- Judg 10:6And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim, and Ashtaroth, and the gods of Syria, and the gods of Zidon, and the gods of Moab, and the gods of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines, and forsook the LORD, and served not him.
- Ps 97:7Confounded be all they that serve graven images, that boast themselves of idols: worship him, all ye gods.
- Ezek 20:28–29For when I had brought them into the land, for the which I lifted up mine hand to give it to them, then they saw every high hill, and all the thick trees, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the provocation of their offering: there also they made their sweet savour, and poured out there their drink offerings.
- Judg 2:17And yet they would not hearken unto their judges, but they went a whoring after other gods, and bowed themselves unto them: they turned quickly out of the way which their fathers walked in, obeying the commandments of the LORD; but they did not so.
- Hos 13:2And now they sin more and more, and have made them molten images of their silver, and idols according to their own understanding, all of it the work of the craftsmen: they say of them, Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves.
- Deut 27:15Cursed be the man that maketh any graven or molten image, an abomination unto the LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and putteth it in a secret place. And all the people shall answer and say, Amen.
- Judg 2:20And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel; and he said, Because that this people hath transgressed my covenant which I commanded their fathers, and have not hearkened unto my voice;
- Jer 8:19Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of them that dwell in a far country: Is not the LORD in Zion? is not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, and with strange vanities?
- Exod 34:14For thou shalt worship no other god: for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God:
- Num 33:52Then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten images, and quite pluck down all their high places:
- Ezek 8:3–5And he put forth the form of an hand, and took me by a lock of mine head; and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the inner gate that looketh toward the north; where was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provoketh to jealousy.
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