1 Kings 14:22
Good News Translation
The people of Judah sinned against the LORD and did more to arouse his anger against them than all their ancestors had done.

New Revised Standard Version
Judah did what was evil in the sight of the LORD; they provoked him to jealousy with their sins that they committed, more than all that their ancestors had done.

Contemporary English Version
The people of Judah disobeyed the LORD and made him even angrier than their ancestors had.

New American Bible
Judah did evil in the LORD’s sight and they angered him even more than their ancestors had done.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Juda did evil in the sight of the Lord, and provoked him above all that their fathers had done, in their sins which they committed.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

Judah

Judges 3:7,12 And they did evil in the sight of the Lord, and they forgot their God, and served Baalim and Astaroth. . . .

Judges 4:1 And the children of Israel again did evil in the sight of the Lord after the death of Aod:

2 Kings 17:19 But neither did Juda itself keep the commandments of the Lord, their God: but they walked in the errors of Israel, which they had wrought.

2 Chronicles 12:1 And when the kingdom of Roboam was strengthened and fortified, he forsook the law of the Lord, and all Israel with him.

Jeremiah 3:7-11 And when she had done all these things, I said: Return to me, and she did not return. And her treacherous sister Juda saw, . . .

they provoked

1 Kings 14:9 But hast done evil above all that were before thee, and hast made thee strange gods, and molten gods, to provoke me to anger, and hast cast me behind thy back:

Deuteronomy 4:24 Because the Lord thy God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.

Deuteronomy 29:28 And he hath cast them out of their land, in anger and in wrath, and in very great indignation, and hath thrown them into a strange land, as it is seen this day.

Deuteronomy 32:16-21 They provoked him by strange gods, and stirred him up to anger, with their abominations. . . .

Psalm 78:58 They provoked him to anger on their hills: and moved him to jealousy with their graven things.

Isaiah 65:3,4 A people that continually provoke me to anger before my face, that immolate in gardens, and sacrifice upon bricks. . . .

1 Corinthians 10:22 Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he? All things are lawful for me: but all things are not expedient.

all

1 Kings 16:30 And Achab, the son of Amri, did evil in the sight of the Lord above all that were before him.

2 Kings 21:11 Because Manasses, king of Juda, hath done these most wicked abominations, beyond all that the Amorrhites did before him, and hath made Juda also to sin with his filthy doings:

Ezekiel 16:47,48 But neither hast thou walked in their ways, nor hast thou done a little less than they according to their wickednesses: thou hast done almost more wicked things than they in all thy ways. . . .

Context
Rehoboam's Reign in Judah
21And Roboam, the son of Solomon, reigned in Juda: Roboam was one and forty years old when he began to reign: and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the Lord chose out of all the tribes of Israel to put his name there. And his mother's name was Naama, an Ammonitess. 22And Juda did evil in the sight of the Lord, and provoked him above all that their fathers had done, in their sins which they committed.23For they also built them altars, and statues, and groves, upon every high hill, and under every green tree:…
Cross References
1 Corinthians 10:22
Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he? All things are lawful for me: but all things are not expedient.

Deuteronomy 32:21
They have provoked me with that which was no god, and have angered me with their vanities: and I will provoke them with that which is no people, and will vex them with a foolish nation.

2 Kings 17:19
But neither did Juda itself keep the commandments of the Lord, their God: but they walked in the errors of Israel, which they had wrought.

2 Chronicles 12:1
And when the kingdom of Roboam was strengthened and fortified, he forsook the law of the Lord, and all Israel with him.

2 Chronicles 12:14
But he did evil, and did not prepare his heart to seek the Lord.

Psalm 78:58
They provoked him to anger on their hills: and moved him to jealousy with their graven things.

Jeremiah 52:2
And he did that which was evil in the eyes of the Lord, according to all that Joakim had done.

1 Kings 14:21
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