Deuteronomy 32:16 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

To jealousy, i.e. to anger and fury, for jealousy is the rage of a man, Proverbs 6:31. And withal it implies the ground of his anger, to wit, their falseness to God, whom they had owned and accepted as their Husband, and their spiritual whoredom with other gods.

Deuteronomy 32:16

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