Here you will find all biblical passages where / in which the word (or term) ‘Provoke’ occurs and how often this word occurs per biblical book. We searched the New and Old Testaments to find all the verses and occurrences of the Word. his article is part of our small concordance.
The term ‘Provoke’ occurs 92 times in the Bible. Below you will find all matching biblical passages divided according to the corresponding book.
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Bible passages with ‘Provoke’ in the book Genesis
Genesis 49:23 But those who held darts, provoked him, and they contend with him, and they envied him.Genesis 49:23
Number of the word / term Provoke in Genesis: 1
Bible passages with ‘Provoke’ in the book Numbers
Numbers 11:33 The flesh was still between their teeth, neither had this kind of food ceased, and behold, the fury of the Lord was provoked against the people, and he struck them with an exceedingly great scourge.Numbers 11:33
Number of the word / term Provoke in Numbers: 1
Bible passages with ‘Provoke’ in the book Deuteronomy
Deuteronomy 4:25 When you will have conceived sons and grandsons while abiding in the land, and if, having been deceived, you make for yourselves any likeness, accomplishing evil in the sight of the Lord your God, so as to provoke him to wrath,Deuteronomy 4:25
Deuteronomy 9:7 Remember, and never forget, how you provoked the Lord your God to anger in the wilderness. You have always contended against the Lord, from the day that you went forth from Egypt, even to this place.Deuteronomy 9:7
Deuteronomy 9:8 For at Horeb also, you provoked him, and, becoming angry, he was willing to destroy you,Deuteronomy 9:8
Deuteronomy 9:18 And I fell prostrate before the Lord, just as before, for forty days and nights, not eating bread, and not drinking water, because of all your sins, which you had committed against the Lord, and because you provoked him to anger.Deuteronomy 9:18
Deuteronomy 9:22 Likewise, at the Burning, and at the Temptation, and at the Graves of Lust, you provoked the Lord.Deuteronomy 9:22
Deuteronomy 31:29 For I know that, after my death, you will act with iniquity, and you will quickly depart from the way that I have instructed to you. And so, evils will meet you in the end time, when you will have done evil in the sight of the Lord so as to provoke him through the works of your hands.”Deuteronomy 31:29
Deuteronomy 32:16 They provoked him with strange gods, and they stirred him to anger by their abominations.Deuteronomy 32:16
Deuteronomy 32:19 The Lord saw, and he was stirred to anger. For his own sons and daughters provoked him.Deuteronomy 32:19
Deuteronomy 32:21 They have provoked me with that which was not God, and they have angered me with their emptiness. And so, I will provoke them with that which is not a people, and I will anger them with a foolish nation.Deuteronomy 32:21
Number of the word / term Provoke in Deuteronomy: 9
Bible passages with ‘Provoke’ in the book Judges
Judges 2:12 And they abandoned the Lord, the God of their fathers, who had led them away from the land of Egypt. And they followed foreign gods and the gods of the peoples who were living around them, and they adored them. And they provoked the Lord to wrath,Judges 2:12
Number of the word / term Provoke in Judges: 1
Bible passages with ‘Provoke’ in the book 1 Samuel
1 Samuel 1:7 And she did so every year, when the time returned for them to ascend to the temple of the Lord. And she provoked her in this way. And so, she wept and did not take food.1 Samuel 1:7
1 Samuel 12:14 If you will fear the Lord, and serve him, and listen to his voice, and not provoke the mouth of the Lord, then both you, and the king who rules over you, will be following the Lord your God.1 Samuel 12:14
1 Samuel 12:15 But if you will not listen to the voice of the Lord, but instead you provoke his words, then the hand of the Lord will be over you and over your fathers.1 Samuel 12:15
Number of the word / term Provoke in 1 Samuel: 3
Bible passages with ‘Provoke’ in the book 1 Kings
1 Kings 14:9 Instead, you have worked evil beyond all those who were before you. And you have made for yourself strange gods and molten images, so that you provoke me to anger. And you have cast me behind your back.1 Kings 14:9
1 Kings 14:15 And the Lord God shall strike Israel, just as a reed is usually shaken in the water. And he will uproot Israel from this good land, which he gave to their fathers. And he will winnow them beyond the river. For they have made for themselves sacred groves, so that they have provoked the Lord.1 Kings 14:15
1 Kings 14:22 And Judah did evil in the sight of the Lord, and they provoked him beyond all that their fathers had done, by their sins that they committed.1 Kings 14:22
1 Kings 15:30 because of the sin of Jeroboam, which he had committed, and by which he had caused Israel to sin, and because of the offense by which he had provoked the Lord, the God of Israel.1 Kings 15:30
1 Kings 16:2 “Even though I exalted you from the dust, and I set you as ruler over my people Israel, still you have walked in the way of Jeroboam, and you have caused my people Israel to sin, so that you have provoked me by their sins.1 Kings 16:2
1 Kings 16:7 And when the word of the Lord had arrived by the hand of the prophet Jehu, the son of Hanani, against Baasha, and against his house, and against every evil that he had done before the Lord, so that he provoked him by the works of his hands, so that he became like the house of Jeroboam: for this reason, he killed him, that is, the prophet Jehu, the son of Hanani.1 Kings 16:7
1 Kings 16:26 And he walked in all the ways of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, and in his sins, by which he had caused Israel to sin, so that he provoked the Lord, the God of Israel, by their vanities.1 Kings 16:26
1 Kings 21:22 And I will cause your house to be like the house of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha, the son of Ahijah. For you have acted so that you provoked me to anger, and so that you caused Israel to sin.’1 Kings 21:22
1 Kings 22:53 Also, he served Baal, and he adored him, and he provoked the Lord, the God of Israel, in accord with all that his father had done.1 Kings 22:53
Number of the word / term Provoke in 1 Kings: 9
Bible passages with ‘Provoke’ in the book 2 Kings
2 Kings 14:10 You have struck and prevailed over Idumea. And your heart has lifted you up. Be content with your own glory, and be seated your own house. Why would you provoke evil, so that you would fall, and Judah with you?”2 Kings 14:10
2 Kings 17:17 And they consecrated their sons and their daughters through fire. And they devoted themselves to divinations and soothsaying. And they delivered themselves into the doing of evil before the Lord, so that they provoked him.2 Kings 17:17
2 Kings 21:6 And he led his son through fire. And he used divinations, and observed omens, and appointed soothsayers, and multiplied diviners, so that he did evil before the Lord, and provoked him.2 Kings 21:6
2 Kings 23:19 Then too, all the shines of the high places, which were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke the Lord, Josiah took away. And he acted toward them according to all the works that he had done in Bethel.2 Kings 23:19
2 Kings 23:26 Yet truly, the Lord did not turn away from the wrath of his great fury, his fury which was enraged against Judah because of the provocations by which Manasseh had provoked him.2 Kings 23:26
Number of the word / term Provoke in 2 Kings: 5
Bible passages with ‘Provoke’ in the book 2 Chronicles
2 Chronicles 25:19 You said, ‘I struck down Edom.’ And for this reason, your heart is lifted up with pride. Settle in your own house. Why do you provoke evil against yourself, so that you may fall, and then Judah with you?”2 Chronicles 25:19
2 Chronicles 28:25 Also, he constructed altars in all the cities of Judah, in order to burn frankincense, and so he provoked the Lord, the God of his fathers, to wrath.2 Chronicles 28:25
2 Chronicles 33:6 And he caused his sons to pass through fire in the Valley of the son of Hinnom. He observed dreams, followed divinations, served the occult arts, had with him magicians and enchanters, and worked many evils before the Lord, so that he provoked him.2 Chronicles 33:6
2 Chronicles 34:25 For they have abandoned me, and they have sacrificed to foreign gods, so that they provoked me to wrath by all the works of their hands. Therefore, my fury will rain down upon this place, and it will not be extinguished.2 Chronicles 34:25
Number of the word / term Provoke in 2 Chronicles: 4
Bible passages with ‘Provoke’ in the book Ezra
Ezra 5:12 But afterward, our fathers had provoked the God of heaven to wrath, so he delivered them into the hands of Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, the Chaldean. And he destroyed this house, and he transferred its people to Babylon.Ezra 5:12
Number of the word / term Provoke in Ezra: 1
Bible passages with ‘Provoke’ in the book Nehemiah
Nehemiah 9:26 But they provoked you to wrath, and they withdrew from you, and they cast your law behind their backs. And they killed your prophets, who contended with them so that they might return to you. And they committed great blasphemies.Nehemiah 9:26
Number of the word / term Provoke in Nehemiah: 1
Bible passages with ‘Provoke’ in the book Job
Job 12:6 The tabernacles of robbers are numerous, and they provoke God boldly; whereas, it is he who has given all things into their hands.Job 12:6
Job 34:37 For he adds blasphemy on top of his sins; nevertheless, let him be constrained to be among us, and then let him provoke God to judgment with his speeches.Job 34:37
Job 36:13 The false and the crafty provoke the wrath of God, yet they do not cry out to him when they are chained.Job 36:13
Number of the word / term Provoke in Job: 3
Bible passages with ‘Provoke’ in the book Psalm
Psalm 5:10 Their throat is an open sepulcher. They have acted deceitfully with their tongues. Judge them, O God. Let them fall by their own intentions: according to the multitude of their impiety, expel them. For they have provoked you, O Lord.Psalm 5:10
Psalm 10:4 The sinner has provoked the Lord; according to the multitude of his wrath, he will not seek him.Psalm 10:4
Psalm 10:13 How has the impious one provoked God? For he has said in his heart, “He will not inquire.”Psalm 10:13
Psalm 74:10 How long, O God, will the enemy place blame? Is the adversary to provoke your name until the end?Psalm 74:10
Psalm 78:17 And yet, they continued to sin against him. In a waterless place, they provoked the Most High with resentment.Psalm 78:17
Psalm 78:40 How often did they provoke him in the desert and stir him to wrath in a waterless place?Psalm 78:40
Psalm 78:58 They impelled him to anger on their hills, and they provoked him to rivalry with their graven images.Psalm 78:58
Psalm 106:7 Our fathers did not understand your miracles in Egypt. They did not remember the multitude of your mercies. And they provoked you, while going up to the sea, even the Red Sea.Psalm 106:7
Psalm 106:16 And they provoked Moses in the camp, and Aaron, the holy one of the Lord.Psalm 106:16
Psalm 106:29 And they provoked him with their inventions, and ruination was multiplied in them.Psalm 106:29
Psalm 106:32 And they provoked him at the Waters of Contradiction, and Moses was afflicted because of them,Psalm 106:32
Psalm 106:43 Many times, he delivered them. Yet they provoked him with their counsel, and they were brought low by their iniquities.Psalm 106:43
Number of the word / term Provoke in Psalm: 12
Bible passages with ‘Provoke’ in the book Proverbs
Proverbs 12:23 A resourceful man conceals knowledge. And the heart of the unwise provokes foolishness.Proverbs 12:23
Proverbs 15:18 A short-tempered man provokes conflicts. Whoever is patient tempers those who are stirred up.Proverbs 15:18
Proverbs 18:6 The lips of the foolish meddle in disputes. And his mouth provokes conflicts.Proverbs 18:6
Proverbs 20:2 Just like the roaring of a lion, so also is the dread of a king. Whoever provokes him sins in his own soul.Proverbs 20:2
Proverbs 29:22 A short-tempered man provokes quarrels. And whoever is easily angered is more likely to sin.Proverbs 29:22
Proverbs 30:33 But whoever strongly squeezes the udder to bring out the milk, presses out butter. And whoever violently blows his nose, brings out blood. And whoever provokes wrath, brings forth discord.”Proverbs 30:33
Number of the word / term Provoke in Proverbs: 6
Bible passages with ‘Provoke’ in the book Isaiah
Isaiah 1:20 But if you are not willing, and you provoke me to anger, then the sword will devour you. For the mouth of the Lord has spoken.Isaiah 1:20
Isaiah 3:8 For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah has fallen, because their words and their plans are against the Lord, in order to provoke the eyes of his majesty.Isaiah 3:8
Isaiah 30:9 For they are a people who provoke to wrath, and they are lying sons, sons unwilling to listen to the law of God.Isaiah 30:9
Isaiah 63:10 But they themselves provoked to wrath and afflicted his Holy Spirit, and he was turned to be for them like an enemy, and he himself went to war against them.Isaiah 63:10
Isaiah 65:3 to a people who provoke me to anger before my face continually, who immolate in the gardens, and who sacrifice upon the bricks.Isaiah 65:3
Number of the word / term Provoke in Isaiah: 5
Bible passages with ‘Provoke’ in the book Jeremiah
Jeremiah 4:17 They have been stationed over her, like the guardians of fields, all around. For she has provoked me to wrath, says the Lord.Jeremiah 4:17
Jeremiah 7:18 The sons gather the wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the wives spread the grease, so as to make cakes to the queen of heaven and to offer libations to strange gods, and so as to provoke me to anger.Jeremiah 7:18
Jeremiah 8:19 Behold, the voice of the daughter of my people from a far away land. Is the Lord not with Zion, and is her king not within her? Then why have they provoked me to wrath by their graven images, and by their strange vanities?Jeremiah 8:19
Jeremiah 11:17 And the Lord of hosts, who planted you, has pronounced an evil against you, concerning the evils of the house of Israel and the house of Judah, which they have done to themselves so as to provoke me, by offering libations to Baal.”Jeremiah 11:17
Jeremiah 25:6 And do not choose to go after strange gods, so that you would serve them and adore them. And do not provoke me to wrath by the works of your hands. And then I will not afflict you.Jeremiah 25:6
Jeremiah 25:7 And yet you have not listened to me, says the Lord, and so you have provoked me to anger with the works of your hands, to your own harm.”Jeremiah 25:7
Jeremiah 32:29 And the Chaldeans fighting against this city will advance, and set fire to it, and burn it, along with the houses on whose roofs they were offering sacrifice to Baal and were pouring out libations to strange gods, so that they provoked me to wrath.Jeremiah 32:29
Jeremiah 44:3 because of the wickedness which they have done, so that they provoked me to wrath, and because they went to offer sacrifice and worship to strange gods, which neither they, nor you, nor your fathers knew.Jeremiah 44:3
Jeremiah 44:8 For you have provoked me by the works of your hands, by sacrificing to strange gods in the land of Egypt, into which you have entered in order to live there, and so that you would perish and become a curse and a disgrace before all the nations of the earth.Jeremiah 44:8
Jeremiah 50:24 I have ensnared you, and you have been captured, O Babylon, and you did not realize it. You have been discovered and seized, because you provoked the Lord.Jeremiah 50:24
Number of the word / term Provoke in Jeremiah: 10
Bible passages with ‘Provoke’ in the book Lamentations
Lamentations 1:18 SADE. The Lord is just, for it is I who has provoked his mouth to wrath. I beg all people to listen and to see my sorrow. My virgins and my youths have gone into captivity.Lamentations 1:18
Lamentations 2:14 NUN. Your prophets have seen false and foolish things for you. And they have not laid open your iniquity, so as to provoke you to repentance. Yet they have seen for you false revelations and banishments.Lamentations 2:14
Lamentations 3:42 NUN. We have acted sinfully, and we have provoked to wrath. About this, you are relentless.Lamentations 3:42
Number of the word / term Provoke in Lamentations: 3
Bible passages with ‘Provoke’ in the book Ezekiel
Ezekiel 8:3 And as the image of a hand went out, it took hold of me by a lock of my head. And the Spirit lifted me up between earth and heaven. And he brought me into Jerusalem, within a vision of God, next to the inner gate that looked toward the north, where there was stationed an idol of rivalry, so as to provoke an envious emulation.Ezekiel 8:3
Ezekiel 8:17 And he said to me: “Certainly, son of man, you have seen. Can this be so trivial to the house of Judah, when they commit these abominations, just as they have committed here, that, having filled the earth with iniquity, they now turn to provoke me? And behold, they are applying a branch to their nose.Ezekiel 8:17
Ezekiel 16:26 And you fornicated with the sons of Egypt, your neighbors, who have large bodies. And you multiplied your fornications, so as to provoke me.Ezekiel 16:26
Ezekiel 16:43 For you have not remembered the days of your youth, and you have provoked me in all these things. Because of this, I also have delivered all your ways upon your head, says the Lord God, but I have not acted in accord with your wickedness in all your abominations.Ezekiel 16:43
Ezekiel 20:8 But they provoked me, and they were not willing to listen to me. Each one of them did not cast away the abominations of his eyes, nor did they leave behind the idols of Egypt. And so, I said that I would pour out my indignation upon them, and fulfill my wrath against them, in the midst of the land of Egypt.Ezekiel 20:8
Ezekiel 20:13 But the house of Israel provoked me in the desert. They did not walk in my precepts, and they cast aside my judgments, which, if a man does them, he shall live by them. And they grievously violated my Sabbaths. Therefore, I said that I would pour out my fury upon them in the desert, and that I would consume them.Ezekiel 20:13
Ezekiel 20:21 But their sons provoked me. They did not walk in my precepts. And they did not observe my judgments, so as to do them; for if a man does them, he shall live by them. And they violated my Sabbaths. And so, I threatened that I would pour out my fury upon them, and that I would fulfill my wrath among them in the desert.Ezekiel 20:21
Ezekiel 32:9 And I will provoke the heart of many peoples to anger, when I will have led in your destruction among the Gentiles, over the lands that you have not known.Ezekiel 32:9
Ezekiel 44:6 And you shall say to the house of Israel, which provokes me: Thus says the Lord God: Let all your wicked deeds be sufficient for you, O house of Israel.Ezekiel 44:6
Number of the word / term Provoke in Ezekiel: 9
Bible passages with ‘Provoke’ in the book Daniel
Daniel 11:25 And his strength and his heart will be enraged against the king of the South with a great army. And the king of the South will be provoked into going to war by having many allies and exceedingly good circumstances, and yet these will not stand, for they will form plans against him.Daniel 11:25
Number of the word / term Provoke in Daniel: 1
Bible passages with ‘Provoke’ in the book Hosea
Hosea 12:14 Ephraim has provoked me to wrath with his bitterness, and his blood will overcome him, and his Lord will requite him for his shamefulness.Hosea 12:14
Number of the word / term Provoke in Hosea: 1
Bible passages with ‘Provoke’ in the book Zechariah
Zechariah 8:14 For thus says the Lord of hosts: Just as I intended to afflict you, when your fathers had provoked me to wrath, says the Lord,Zechariah 8:14
Number of the word / term Provoke in Zechariah: 1
Bible passages with ‘Provoke’ in the book Romans
Romans 11:14 in such a way that I might provoke to rivalry those who are my own flesh, and so that I may save some of them.Romans 11:14
Number of the word / term Provoke in Romans: 1
Bible passages with ‘Provoke’ in the book 1 Corinthians
1 Corinthians 10:22 Or should we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he is? All is lawful to me, but not all is expedient.1 Corinthians 10:22
1 Corinthians 13:5 Charity is not ambitious, does not seek for itself, is not provoked to anger, devises no evil.1 Corinthians 13:5
Number of the word / term Provoke in 1 Corinthians: 2
Bible passages with ‘Provoke’ in the book Ephesians
Ephesians 6:4 And you, fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but educate them with the discipline and correction of the Lord.Ephesians 6:4
Number of the word / term Provoke in Ephesians: 1
Bible passages with ‘Provoke’ in the book Colossians
Colossians 3:21 Fathers, do not provoke your children to indignation, lest they lose heart.Colossians 3:21
Number of the word / term Provoke in Colossians: 1
Bible passages with ‘Provoke’ in the book Hebrews
Hebrews 3:16 For some of those listening did provoke him. But not all of these had set forth from Egypt through Moses.Hebrews 3:16
Number of the word / term ‘Provoke’ in Hebrews: 1
These texts are taken from the following version: Catholic Public Domain Version.
Number of Bible Verses found on the topic: 92
