Revised Webster's Bible
Psalms 78:58
58For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
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.
- New International Version (NIV)They angered him with their high places; they aroused his jealousy with their idols.
- 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.
Context of Psalms 78:58
56Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies: 57But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow. For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images. 59When God heard this, he was filled with wrath, and greatly abhorred Israel: 60So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men;
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וַיַּכְעִיס֥וּהוּ בְּבָמוֹתָ֑ם וּ֝בִפְסִילֵיהֶ֗ם יַקְנִיאֽוּהוּ׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Psalms 78:58
- Leviticus 26:30And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your remains upon the remains of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.
- Numbers 33:52Then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their stone images, and destroy all their molten images, and destroy all their high places:
- Deuteronomy 12:2Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, in which the nations which ye shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree:
- Ezekiel 20:28For when I had brought them into the land, for which I lifted up my hand to give it to them, then they saw every high hill, and all the thick trees, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the provocation of their offering: there also they made their sweet savour, and poured out there their drink offerings.
- Psalms 79:5How long, LORD? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire?
- Exodus 34:14For thou shalt worship no other god: for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God:
- Deuteronomy 32:16They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations they provoked him to anger.
- Judges 2:12And they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the people that were around them, and bowed themselves to them, and provoked the LORD to anger.
- Ezekiel 8:3And he put forth the form of an hand, and took me by a lock of my head; and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the inner gate that looketh toward the north; where was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provoketh to jealousy.
- 1 Corinthians 10:22Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?
- Psalms 97:7Confounded be all they that serve graven images, that boast themselves of idols: worship him, all ye gods.
- Exodus 20:4Thou shalt not make to thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:
- Deuteronomy 4:16Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make to you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,
- Deuteronomy 27:15Cursed be the man that maketh any graven or molten image, an abomination to the LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and putteth it in a secret place . And all the people shall answer and say, Amen.
- Judges 2:11And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim:
- Judges 10:6And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim, and Ashtaroth, and the gods of Syria, and the gods of Zidon, and the gods of Moab, and the gods of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines, and forsook the LORD, and served not 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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