Psalm 106:29 {105:29}
Good News Translation
They stirred up the LORD's anger by their actions, and a terrible disease broke out among them.

New Revised Standard Version
they provoked the LORD to anger with their deeds, and a plague broke out among them.

Contemporary English Version
They did such terrible things that you punished them with a deadly disease.

New American Bible
They provoked him by their actions, and a plague broke out among them.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they provoked him with their inventions: and destruction was multiplied among them.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And they provoked him with their inventions: and destruction was multiplied among them.

with their

Psalm 106:39 And was defiled with their works: and they went aside after their own inventions.

Psalm 99:8 Thou didst hear them, O Lord our God: thou wast a merciful God to them, and taking vengeance on all their inventions.

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

Ecclesiastes 7:29 Only this I have found, that God made man right, and he hath entangled himself with an infinity of questions. Who is as the wise man? and who hath known the resolution of the word?

Romans 1:21-24 Because that, when they knew God, they have not glorified him as God or given thanks: but became vain in their thoughts. And their foolish heart was darkened. . . .

the plague

Numbers 25:9 And there were slain four and twenty thousand men.

1 Corinthians 10:8 Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them that committed fornication: and there fell in one day three and twenty thousand.

Context
Give Thanks to the LORD, for He is Good
28They also were initiated to Beelphegor: and ate the sacrifices of the dead. 29And they provoked him with their inventions: and destruction was multiplied among them.30Then Phinees stood up, and pacified him: and the slaughter ceased.…
Cross References
Numbers 25:3
And Israel was initiated to Beelphegor: upon which the Lord being angry,

Numbers 25:4
Said to Moses: Take all the princes of the people, and hang them up on gibbets against the sun: that my fury may be turned away from Israel.

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

Hosea 9:10
I found Israel like grapes in the desert, I saw their fathers like the firstfruits of the fig tree in the top thereof: but they went in to Beelphegor, and alienated themselves to that confusion, and became abominable, as those things were, which they loved.

Psalm 106:28
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