provoking And when the LORD saw [it], he abhorred [them], because of the {provoking} of his sons, and of his daughters. provoking <1KI14 -15> For the LORD shall smite Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water, and he shall root up Israel out of this good land, which he gave to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the river, because they have made their groves, {prov oking} the LORD to anger. provoking <1KI16 -7> And also by the hand of the prophet Jehu the son of Hanani came the word of the LORD against Baasha, and against his house, even for all the evil that he did in the sight of the LORD, in {provoking} him to anger with the work of his h ands, in being like the house of Jeroboam; and because he killed him. provoking <1KI16 -13> For all the sins of Baasha, and the sins of Elah his son, by which they sinned, and by which they made Israel to sin, in {provoking} the LORD God of Israel to anger with their vanities. provoking And they sinned yet more against him by {provoking} the most High in the wilderness. provoking Let us not be desirous of vain glory, {provoking} one another, envying one another. ~~~~~~