Deuteronomy 32:16
What does Deuteronomy 32:16 mean?
A plain-English look at Deuteronomy 32:16 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000They moved him to jealousy with strange gods; With abominations provoked they him to anger.
KJV
King James Version · 1611They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901They moved him to jealousy with strange gods; With abominations provoked they him to anger.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949The honour which was his they gave to strange gods; by their disgusting ways he was moved to wrath.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862They make Him zealous with strangers, With abominations they make Him angry.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752They provoked him by strange gods, and stirred him up to anger, with their abominations.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890They moved him to jealousy with strangegods, With abominations did they provoke him to anger.
Context
v.15But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: Thou art waxed fat, thou art grown thick, thou art become sleek; Then he forsook God who made him, And lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
v.16This passage
v.17They sacrificed unto demons, which were no God, To gods that they knew not, To newgodsthat came up of late, Which your fathers dreaded not.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 2 Kings 23:13
And the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had builded for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile.
- Deuteronomy 5:9
thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them; for I, Jehovah, thy God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the third and upon the fourth generation of them that hate me;
- Leviticus 18:27
(for all these abominations have the men of the land done, that were before you, and the land is defiled);
- 1 Corinthians 10:22
Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?
- Deuteronomy 7:25
The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not covet the silver or the gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee, lest thou be snared therein; for it is an abomination to Jehovah thy God.
- Psalms 78:58
For they provoked him to anger with their high places, And moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
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