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References (84) to 'Provoke'
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And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.

2 
Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy?       are we stronger than he?
thinking of offending the Lord is primitive.       the Lord cannot be offended because He is perfect and above all.       To be offended you have to consider the preeminence of the offender.       

God wants us to be perfect as He is.       To be so, we must be resolute in our honour for Him in all things.

3 
Does not behave itself unseemly, seeks not her own, is not easily provoked, thinks no evil;
There is a purity in the Holy Spirit, called holiness, which is devoid of pettiness and selfishness.       It is that state which the Holy Spirit desires to bring to pass in us.

4 
And Judah did evil in the sight of the Lord, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they had committed, above all that their fathers had done.

5 
But have done evil above all that were before you: for you have gone and made you other gods, and molten images, to provoke me to anger, and have cast me behind your back:

6 
Because of the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and which he made Israel sin, by his provocation wherewith he provoked the Lord of Israel to anger.

7 
Forasmuch as I exalted you out of the dust, and made you prince over my people Israel; and you have walked in the way of Jeroboam, and have made my people Israel to sin, to provoke me to anger with their sins;

8 
For he walked in all the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin, to provoke the Lord of Israel to anger with their vanities.

9 
And Ahab made a grove; and Ahab did more to provoke the Lord of Israel to anger than all the kings of Israel that were before him.

10 
And will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah, for the provocation wherewith you have provoked me to anger, and made Israel to sin.

11 
For he served Baal, and worshipped him, and provoked to anger the Lord of Israel, according to all that his father had done.

12 
And her adversary also provoked her very much, for to make her fret, because the Lord had shut up her womb.

13 
And as he did so year by year, when she went up to the house of the Lord, so she provoked her; therefore she wept, and did not eat.

14 
And in every several city of Judah he made high places to burn incense unto other gods, and provoked to anger the Lord of his fathers.

15 
And he caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom: also he observed times, and used enchantments, and used witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit, and with wizards: he wrought much evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger.

16 
Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands; therefore my wrath shall be poured out upon this place, and shall not be quenched.

17 
For I know the forwardness of your mind, for which I boast of you to them of Macedonia, that Achaia was ready a year ago; and your zeal has provoked very many.
When zeal according to knowledge manifests in us, the hungry for the Lord will be drawn to the Gospel.

18 
And there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the heathen whom the Lord carried away before them; and wrought wicked things to provoke the Lord to anger:

19 
And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger.

20 
Because they have done that which was evil in my sight, and have provoked me to anger, since the day their fathers came forth out of Egypt, even unto this day.

21 
And he made his son pass through the fire, and observed times, and used enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits and wizards: he wrought much wickedness in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger.

22 
Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands; therefore my wrath shall be kindled against this place, and shall not be quenched.

23 
And all the houses also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke the Lord to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Bethel.

24 
Notwithstanding the Lord turned not from the fierceness of his great wrath, wherewith his anger was kindled against Judah, because of all the provocations that Manasseh had provoked him with such.

25 
Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.
parents ought not to make unreasonable requirements of their children because such will engender anger and discouragement and ultimately division.

26 
For when I shall have brought them into the land which I sware unto their fathers, that flows with milk and honey; and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and waxed fat; then will they turn unto other gods, and serve them, and provoke me, and break my covenant.
The Lord knows the future and yet He continues to love and bless those who will turn to Him.

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For I know that after my death you will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will befall you in the latter days; because you will do evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands.

28 
They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger.
The Lord has a plan for mankind.       It is that each is be in intimate personal relationship with Him in what amounts to a marriage.       

29 
They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not the Lord; 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.

30 
When you shall beget children, and children's children, and you shall have remained long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, and shall do evil in the sight of the Lord, your Lord, to provoke him to anger:

31 
And I fell down before the Lord, as at the first, forty days and forty nights: I did neither eat bread, nor drink water, because of all your sins which you sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger.

32 
And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibrothhattaavah, you provoked the Lord to wrath.

33 
Remember, and forget not, how you provokedst the Lord, your Lord to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that you did depart out of the land of Egypt, until you came unto this place, you have been rebellious against the Lord.
Most Christians are Stiffnecked and Rebellious.       They typically go only so far with God, retaining Authority in their lives for themselves.

34 
Also in Horeb you provoked the Lord to wrath, so that the Lord was angry with you to have destroyed you.

35 
And, you fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
do not be overbearing because of your rank.       Be considerate and patient while being firm with your children.       

Most of all, teach them about the Lord's love for them and His deire for a personal relationship,

36 
Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name is in him.

37 
You have also committed fornication with the Egyptians your neighbours, great of flesh; and have increased your whoredoms, to provoke me to anger.

38 
Then he said unto me, Have you seen this, O son of man?       Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here?       for they have filled the land with violence, and have returned to provoke me to anger: and, lo, they put the branch to their nose.

39 
And 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 the Lord to Jerusalem, to the door of the inner gate that looks toward the north; where was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provokes to jealousy.

40 
But after that our fathers had provoked the Lord of heaven unto wrath, he gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this house, and carried the people away into Babylon.

41 
And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:
Concern yourself with the spiritual welfare of others so that they may be partakers of Grace and experince the love of the Lord in the Holy Spirit who enables us to do good works.

42 
For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.
When the Lord reveals the Truth about Himself to a person and they reject Him, He has no recourse but to reject them.

43 
Ephraim provoked him to anger most bitterly: therefore shall he leave his blood upon him, and his reproach shall his Lord return unto him.

44 
Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the Lord, they have provoked the Holy One Of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.
When a person or nation turns from the Lord they cannot help but destroy themselves and others in their Self Will.

45 
For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen: because their tongue and their doings are against the Lord, to provoke the eyes of his glory.
Educating the young to turn against the Lord Jesus Christ has dire consequences.       Such so educated are empty spiritually and end up realizing the emptiness of their existence.       Suicides and dropping-out increase.

46 
A people that provokes me to anger continually to my face; that sacrifices in gardens, and burns incense upon altars of brick;

47 
For the Lord of hosts, that planted you, has pronounced evil against you, for the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have done against themselves to provoke me to anger in offering incense unto Baal.

48 
And go not after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, and provoke me not to anger with the works of your hands; and I will do you no hurt.

49 
Yet you have not hearkened unto me, says the Lord; that you might provoke me to anger with the works of your hands to your own hurt.

50 
And the Chaldeans, that fight against this city, shall come and set fire on this city, and burn it with the houses, upon whose roofs they have offered incense unto Baal, and poured out drink offerings unto other gods, to provoke me to anger.

51 
For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have only done evil before me from their youth: for the children of Israel have only provoked me to anger with the work of their hands, says the Lord.

52 
Because of all the evil of the children of Israel and of the children of Judah, which they have done to provoke me to anger, they, their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets, and the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

53 
Because of their wickedness which they have committed to provoke me to anger, in that they went to burn incense, and to serve other gods, whom they knew not, neither they, you, nor your fathers.

54 
In that you provoke me unto wrath with the works of your hands, burning incense unto other gods in the land of Egypt, where you be gone to dwell, that you might cut yourselves off, and that you might be a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?

55 
The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.

56 
Do they provoke me to anger?       says the Lord: do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces?

57 
Behold 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?

58 
The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke the Lord are secure; into whose hand the Lord brings abundantly.

59 
And they forsook the Lord of their fathers, which brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the people that were round about them, and bowed themselves unto them, and provoked the Lord to anger.

60 
And as he said these things unto them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to urge him vehemently, and to provoke him to speak of many things:

61 
And cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before you: for they have provoked you to anger before the builders.

62 
And the Lord said unto Moses, How long will this people provoke me?       and how long will it be ere they believe me, for all the signs which I have showed among them?

63 
Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it:

64 
But if the Lord make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them, and they go down quick into the pit; then you shall understand that these men have provoked the Lord.

65 
The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: whoso provokes him to anger sins against his own soul.

66 
Thus they provoked him to anger with their inventions: and the plague broke in upon them.
All physical sickness and disease is a result of spiritual disease.

67 
Because they provoked his spirit, so that he spoke unadvisedly with his lips.
This is a criticism of the Lord reflecting the ignorance of the writer.       Our Lord never speaks unadvisably.

68 
Many times did he deliver them; but they provoked him with their counsel, and were brought low for their iniquity.
obey the Spiritual Law and be blessed.       rebel against Spiritual Law and be cursed.

69 
Our fathers understood not your wonders in Egypt; they remembered not the multitude of your kindnesses; but provoked him at the sea, even at the Red sea.
They did not see nor understand.       They were Carnal Minded.

70 
How often did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!
It was at least 10 times.       

71 
Yet they tempted and provoked the most high Lord, and kept not his testimonies:

72 
For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
why false gods and graven images?       
Because men walk by sight and not by faith and because the Sin Nature is one of rebellion.

73 
But I say, Did not Israel know?       First Moses says, I will provoke you to jealousy by them that are no people, and by a foolish nation I will anger you.
Fortelling the acceptance of the gentiles as children by faith.

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I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall?       The Lord forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy.
The issues of the Mosaic Law and adherence to tradition drove a wedge between Christians and Jews which is still there today.       

Had the Christians emphasized the fact that Jesus is Mighty God - not just the Son Of God - they may have been able to convert more Jews to Christ.       

However, there arose the error of the trinity which sealed the deal in terms of monotheistic Jews accepting polytheistic Christianity.

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If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh, and might save some of them.
Paul was the apostle to the gentiles but he loved his fellow countrymen and carried a burden for them throughout his life.

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For thus says the Lord of hosts; As I thought to punish you, when your fathers provoked me to wrath, says the Lord of hosts, and I repented not:
God does not repent because He never makes a mistake.       

Our Lord is disappointed when we are foolish, weak, unbelieving and disobedient.       

The law of God contains both blessing and cursing in it.       Obedience brings the blessing while rebellion brings the curse.

77  2 - Godand Country God and Country
78  Consider To Think carefully about
79  Despite Contempt; disdain.
80  Indignation Anger or annoyance provoked by what is perceived as unfair treatment
81  Mind To think, and to feel; the faculty of consciousness and thought
82  Parent A person who provides for a child
83  Provoke To incite to action
84  Wicked Culture 7 Reasons Pastors Stay Silent in Our Wicked Culture