'Provoked the Lord' in the Bible

Remember, do not forget how you provoked the Lord your God to wrath in the wilderness; from the day that you left the land of Egypt until you arrived at this place, you have been rebellious against the Lord.

Even at Horeb you provoked the Lord to wrath, and the Lord was so angry with you that He would have destroyed you.

“Again at Taberah and at Massah and at Kibroth-hattaavah you provoked the Lord to wrath.

and they forsook the Lord, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods from among the gods of the peoples who were around them, and bowed themselves down to them; thus they provoked the Lord to anger.

and because of the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and which he made Israel sin, because of his provocation with which he provoked the Lord God of Israel to anger.

So he served Baal and worshiped him and provoked the Lord God of Israel to anger, according to all that his father had done.

In every city of Judah he made high places to burn incense to other gods, and provoked the Lord, the God of his fathers, to anger.