Lexicon :: Strong's H3707 - kāʿas

“When you become the father of children and grandchildren and have grown old in the land, then if you corrupt yourselves by making a carved or sculpted image in the form of anything [for the purpose of worship], and do evil [things] in the sight of the LORD your God, provoking Him to anger,

“They provoked Him to jealousy with strange gods [by denying Him the honor and loyalty that is rightfully and uniquely His];

And with repulsive acts they provoked Him to anger.

‘They have made Me [fn]jealous with what is not God;

They have provoked Me to anger with their idols.

So I will make them jealous with those who are not a people;

I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

“The LORD will strike Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water; and He will uproot Israel from this good land which He gave to their fathers, and He will scatter them beyond the [Euphrates] River, because they have made their [fn]Asherim, provoking the LORD to anger.

However, the LORD did not turn from the fierceness of His great wrath which was kindled against Judah because of all the [fn]despicable acts with which Manasseh had provoked Him.

[fn]But when Sanballat heard that we were rebuilding the wall, he became furious, completely enraged, and he ridiculed the Jews.

For they provoked Him to [righteous] anger with their high places [devoted to idol worship]

And moved Him to jealousy with their carved images [by denying Him the love, worship, and obedience that is rightfully and uniquely His].

Thus they provoked Him to anger with their practices,

And a plague broke out among them.

The wicked will see it and be angered,

He will gnash his teeth and melt away [in despair and death];

The desire of the wicked will perish and come to nothing.

Do not be eager in your heart to be angry,

For anger dwells in the heart of fools.

The people who continually provoke Me to My face,

Sacrificing [to idols] in gardens and making offerings with incense on bricks [instead of at the designated altar];

Behold, [hear the sound of] the cry of the daughter of my people from the distant land [of Babylon]:

“Is not the LORD in Zion? Is not her King within her?”

[But the LORD answers] “Why have they provoked Me to anger with their carved images and with foreign idols?”

For the LORD of hosts, who planted you, has pronounced evil and horror against you because of the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have done to provoke Me [to anger] by offering sacrifices and burning incense to Baal.