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Psalms 78:58
58They angered him with their high places; they aroused his jealousy with their idols.
Psalms 78:58 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
- English Standard Version (ESV)For they provoked him to anger with their high places; they moved him to jealousy with their idols.
- New King James Version (NKJV)For they provoked Him to anger with their high places, And moved Him to jealousy with their carved images.
- New Living Translation (NLT)They angered God by building shrines to other gods; they made him jealous with their idols.
Context of Psalms 78:58
56But they put God to the test and rebelled against the Most High; they did not keep his statutes. 57Like their ancestors they were disloyal and faithless, as unreliable as a faulty bow. They angered him with their high places; they aroused his jealousy with their idols. 59When God heard them, he was furious; he rejected Israel completely. 60He abandoned the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent he had set up among humans.
Read all of Psalms 78Psalms 78:58 word by word
וַיַּכְעִיס֥וּהוּ בְּבָמוֹתָ֑ם וּ֝בִפְסִילֵיהֶ֗ם יַקְנִיאֽוּהוּ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Psalms 78:58
- Leviticus 26:30I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars and pile your dead bodies on the lifeless forms of your idols, and I will abhor you.
- Numbers 33:52drive out all the inhabitants of the land before you. Destroy all their carved images and their cast idols, and demolish all their high places.
- Deuteronomy 12:2Destroy completely all the places on the high mountains, on the hills and under every spreading tree, where the nations you are dispossessing worship their gods.
- Ezekiel 20:28When I brought them into the land I had sworn to give them and they saw any high hill or any leafy tree, there they offered their sacrifices, made offerings that aroused my anger, presented their fragrant incense and poured out their drink offerings.
- Psalms 79:5How long, Lord? Will you be angry forever? How long will your jealousy burn like fire?
- Exodus 34:14Do not worship any other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.
- Deuteronomy 32:16They made him jealous with their foreign gods and angered him with their detestable idols.
- Judges 2:12They forsook the Lord, the God of their ancestors, who had brought them out of Egypt. They followed and worshiped various gods of the peoples around them. They aroused the Lord’s anger
- Ezekiel 8:3He stretched out what looked like a hand and took me by the hair of my head. The Spirit lifted me up between earth and heaven and in visions of God he took me to Jerusalem, to the entrance of the north gate of the inner court, where the idol that provokes to jealousy stood.
- 1 Corinthians 10:22Are we trying to arouse the Lord’s jealousy? Are we stronger than he?
- Psalms 97:7All who worship images are put to shame, those who boast in idols— worship him, all you gods!
- Exodus 20:4“You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below.
- Deuteronomy 4:16so that you do not become corrupt and make for yourselves an idol, an image of any shape, whether formed like a man or a woman,
- Deuteronomy 27:15“Cursed is anyone who makes an idol—a thing detestable to the Lord, the work of skilled hands—and sets it up in secret.” Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”
- Judges 2:11Then the Israelites did evil in the eyes of the Lord and served the Baals.
- Judges 10:6Again the Israelites did evil in the eyes of the Lord. They served the Baals and the Ashtoreths, and the gods of Aram, the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the Ammonites and the gods of the Philistines. And because the Israelites forsook the Lord and no longer served him,
Commentaries on Psalms 78:58
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 58For they provoked him to anger with their high places - places where idols were worshipped; usually on mountains or elevated places. Leviticus 26:30; compare 1 Kings 3:2; 1 Kings 12:31-32; 2 Kings 17:32; 2 Chronicles 33:17. And moved him to jealousy - As one is when affections due to himself are bestowed upon another - as in the married life. “With their graven images.” Their idols. Graven images are here put for idols in general.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 56-72Verses 56-72 After the Israelites were settled in Canaan, the children were like their fathers. God gave them his testimonies, but they turned back. Presumptuous sins render even Israelites hateful to God's holiness, and exposed to his justice. Those whom the Lord forsakes become an easy prey to the destroyer. And sooner or later, God will disgrace his enemies. He set a good government over his people; a monarch after his own heart. With good reason does…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 56-64Israel’s rebellion defiled the promised land. During the time of the judges, the people built shrines to false gods and worshiped idols (Psalm 78:58; see also Judges 2:11; 3:7, 17–18).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 5858. Idolatry resulted from sparing the heathen (compare Psa 78:9-11).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 78
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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