Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'provoke' occurs 46 times in the standard works.

5 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'provoke' in the standard works and contain 10.9% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 2 minutes to read the entire list.

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Jer. 7:18-19 (3 in 2 verses)


Jer. 25:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

 25:6 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.

 25:7 Yet ye have not hearkened unto me, saith the Lord; that ye might provoke me to anger with the works of your hands to your own hurt.




Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 33 35 68
Ex. 1 0 1
Num. 1 2 3
Deut. 5 6 11
Judg. 0 1 1
1 Sam. 0 2 2
1 Kgs. 4 4 8
2 Kgs. 5 2 7
1 Chr. 0 1 1
2 Chr. 2 1 3
Ezra 0 1 1
Neh. 0 1 1
Job 1 0 1
Ps. 1 6 7
Prov. 0 1 1
Isa. 1 2 3
Jer. 10 2 12
Ezek. 2 1 3
Hosea 0 1 1
Zech. 0 1 1
NT 9 2 11
BM 3 3 6
DC 1 0 1
PGP 0 0 0
TOTAL 46 40 86

Jer. 7:18
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.

Jer. 7:19
Do they provoke me to anger? saith the Lord: do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces?

Jer. 8:19
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?

Jer. 11:17
For the Lord of hosts, that planted thee, hath pronounced evil against thee, 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.

Jer. 25:6
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.

Jer. 25:7
Yet ye have not hearkened unto me, saith the Lord; that ye might provoke me to anger with the works of your hands to your own hurt.

Jer. 32:29
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.

Jer. 32:30
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, saith the Lord.

Jer. 32:32
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.

Jer. 44:3
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, ye, nor your fathers.

Jer. 44:8
In that ye provoke me unto wrath with the works of your hands, burning incense unto other gods in the land of Egypt, whither ye be gone to dwell, that ye might cut yourselves off, and that ye might be a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?