Deuteronomy 32:16
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They provoked him by strange gods, and stirred him up to anger, with their abominations.

provoked

Deuteronomy 5:9 Thou shalt not adore them, and thou shalt not serve them. For I am the Lord thy God, a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon their children unto the third and fourth generation, to them that hate me,

1 Kings 14:22 And Juda did evil in the sight of the Lord, and provoked him above all that their fathers had done, in their sins which they committed.

Nahum 1:1,2 The burden of Ninive. The book of the vision of Nahum, the Elcesite. . . .

1 Corinthians 10:22 Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he? All things are lawful for me: but all things are not expedient.

abominations

Deuteronomy 7:25 Their graven things thou shalt burn with fire: thou shalt not covet the silver and gold of which they are made, neither shalt thou take to thee any thing thereof, lest thou offend, because it is an abomination to the Lord thy God.

Leviticus 18:27 For all these detestable things the inhabitants of the land have done, that were before you, and have defiled it.

2 Kings 23:13 The high places also that were at Jerusalem, on the right side of the Mount of Offence, which Solomon, king of Israel, had built to Astaroth, the idol of the Sidonians, and to Chamos, the scandal of Moab, and to Melchom, the abomination of the children of Ammon, the king defiled.

Context
The Song of Moses
15The beloved grew fat, and kicked: he grew fat, and thick and gross, he forsook God who made him, and departed from God his saviour. 16They provoked him by strange gods, and stirred him up to anger, with their abominations.17They sacrificed to devils and not to God: to gods whom they knew not: that were newly come up, whom their fathers worshipped not.…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:21
They have provoked me with that which was no god, and have angered me with their vanities: and I will provoke them with that which is no people, and will vex them with a foolish nation.

Psalm 78:58
They provoked him to anger on their hills: and moved him to jealousy with their graven things.

Psalm 106:29
And they provoked him with their inventions: and destruction was multiplied among them.

Isaiah 43:12
I have declared, and have saved. I have made it heard, and there was no strange one among you. You are my witnesses, saith the Lord, and I am God.

Jeremiah 2:25
Keep thy foot from being bare, and thy throat from thirst. But thou saidst: I have lost all hope, I will not do it: for I have loved strangers, and I will walk after them.

Jeremiah 7:18
The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead the dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to offer libations to strange gods, and to provoke me to anger.

Ezekiel 8:3
And the likeness of a hand was put forth and took me by a lock of my head: and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven, and brought me in the vision of God into Jerusalem, near the inner gate, that looked toward the north, where was set the idol of jealousy to provoke to jealousy.

Lexicon
They provoked His jealousy
יַקְנִאֻ֖הוּ (yaq·ni·’u·hū)
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - third person masculine plural | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7065: To be, zealous, jealous, envious

with foreign gods;
בְּזָרִ֑ים (bə·zā·rîm)
Preposition-b | Adjective - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 2114: To turn aside, to be a, foreigner, strange, profane, to commit adultery

they enraged Him
יַכְעִיסֻֽהוּ׃ (yaḵ·‘î·su·hū)
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - third person masculine plural | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3707: To trouble, to grieve, rage, be indignant

with abominations.
בְּתוֹעֵבֹ֖ת (bə·ṯō·w·‘ê·ḇōṯ)
Preposition-b | Noun - feminine plural
Strong's Hebrew 8441: Something disgusting, an abhorrence, idolatry, an idol


Additional Translations
They provoked His jealousy with foreign gods; they enraged Him with abominations.They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger.

They moved him to jealousy with strange gods ; With abominations provoked they him to anger.

They provoked me to anger with strange gods; with their abominations they bitterly angered me.

They moved him to jealousy with strange gods, With abominations did they provoke him to anger.

They moved him to jealousy with strange gods, With abominations provoked they him to anger.

They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations they provoked him to anger.

They moved him to jealousy with strange [gods]. They provoked him to anger with abominations.

They make Him zealous with strangers, With abominations they make Him angry.
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