22 (A)Now Judah did evil in the sight of the Lord, and they (B)provoked Him to jealousy with their sins which they committed, more than all that their fathers had done.

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Egypt Attacks Judah(A)

12 Now (B)it came to pass, when Rehoboam had established the kingdom and had strengthened himself, that (C)he forsook the law of the Lord, and all Israel along with him.

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22 Or do we (A)provoke the Lord to jealousy? (B)Are we stronger than He?

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58 (A)For they provoked Him to anger with their (B)high places,
And moved Him to jealousy with their carved images.

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A people (A)who provoke Me to anger continually to My face;
(B)Who sacrifice in gardens,
And burn incense on altars of brick;
(C)Who sit among the graves,
And spend the night in the tombs;
(D)Who eat swine’s flesh,
And the broth of [a]abominable things is in their vessels;

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 65:4 Unclean meats, Lev. 7:18; 19:7

14 And he did evil, because he did not prepare his heart to seek the Lord.

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19 Also (A)Judah did not keep the commandments of the Lord their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.

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30 Now Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the Lord, more than all who were before him.

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but you have done more evil than all who were before you, (A)for you have gone and made for yourself other gods and molded images to provoke Me to anger, and (B)have cast Me behind your back—

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Deborah

When Ehud was dead, (A)the children of Israel again did (B)evil in the sight of the Lord.

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Ehud

12 (A)And the children of Israel again did evil in the sight of the Lord. So the Lord strengthened (B)Eglon king of Moab against Israel, because they had done evil in the sight of the Lord.

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Othniel

So the children of Israel did (A)evil in the sight of the Lord. They (B)forgot the Lord their God, and served the Baals and [a]Asherahs.

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 3:7 Name or symbol for Canaanite goddesses

16 (A)They provoked Him to jealousy with foreign gods;
With [a]abominations they provoked Him to anger.
17 (B)They sacrificed to demons, not to God,
To gods they did not know,
To new gods, new arrivals
That your fathers did not fear.
18 (C)Of the Rock who begot you, you are unmindful,
And have (D)forgotten the God who fathered you.

19 “And(E) when the Lord saw it, He spurned them,
Because of the provocation of His sons and His daughters.
20 And He said: ‘I will hide My face from them,
I will see what their end will be,
For they are a perverse generation,
(F)Children in whom is no faith.
21 (G)They have provoked Me to jealousy by what is not God;
They have moved Me to anger (H)by their [b]foolish idols.
But (I)I will provoke them to jealousy by those who are not a nation;
I will move them to anger by a foolish nation.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 32:16 detestable acts
  2. Deuteronomy 32:21 foolishness, lit. vanities

28 And the Lord (A)uprooted them from their land in anger, in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it is this day.’

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47 You did not walk in their ways nor act according to their abominations; but, as if that were too little, (A)you became more corrupt than they in all your ways.

48 As I live,” says the Lord God, “neither (B)your sister Sodom nor her daughters have done as you and your daughters have done.

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(A)And I said, after she had done all these things, ‘Return to Me.’ But she did not return. And her treacherous (B)sister Judah saw it. Then I saw that (C)for all the causes for which backsliding Israel had committed adultery, I had (D)put her away and given her a certificate of divorce; (E)yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear, but went and played the harlot also. So it came to pass, through her casual harlotry, that she (F)defiled the land and committed adultery with (G)stones and trees. 10 And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah has not turned to Me (H)with her whole heart, but in pretense,” says the Lord.

11 Then the Lord said to me, (I)“Backsliding Israel has shown herself more righteous than treacherous Judah.

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11 (A)“Because Manasseh king of Judah has done these abominations ((B)he has acted more wickedly than all the (C)Amorites who were before him, and (D)has also made Judah sin with his idols),

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