Charles Spurgeon Commentary Deuteronomy 32:16-17

"They moved him to jealousy with strange [gods]; With abominations provoked they him to anger. They sacrificed unto demons, [which were] no God, To gods that they knew not, To new [gods] that came up of late, Which your fathers dreaded not." — Deuteronomy 32:16-17 (ASV)

They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger. They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not.

Moses multiplies expressions to show the folly of Israel's idolatry. Only think of new gods that came newly up, as if that which is new could be a god!

The same thing may be said of the "new truth" of which we hear so much nowadays. That which is new cannot be true. Certainly, there is nothing new in theology but that which is utterly false.

The idols, which the Israelites worshipped, were not only new gods, but they were strange gods, which their fathers feared not. Worse than that, they were demons: they sacrificed unto devils not to God. How low had even the chosen people sunk!

They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger. They sacrificed unto devils,

Demons – not to God.