Psalm 78:58

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Summary

Psalm 78:58

For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.

Their high

Moved

1 Corinthians 10:22

With

General references

1 Samuel 8:8

Bible References

Their high

And I will send destruction on your high places, overturning your perfume altars, and will put your dead bodies on your broken images, and my soul will be turned from you in disgust.

See that all the people of the land are forced out from before you, and put to destruction all their pictured stones, and all their metal images, and all their high places:

You are to give up to the curse all those places where the nations, whom you are driving out, gave worship to their gods, on the high mountains and the hills and under every green tree:

For when I had taken them into the land which I made an oath to give to them, then they saw every high hill and every branching tree and made their offerings there, moving me to wrath by their offerings; and there the sweet smell of their offerings went up and their drink offerings were drained out.

Moved

For you are to be worshippers of no other god: for the Lord is a God who will not give his honour to another.

The honour which was his they gave to strange gods; by their disgusting ways he was moved to wrath.

And they gave up the Lord, the God of their fathers, who had taken them out of the land of Egypt, and went after other gods, the gods of the peoples round about them, worshipping them and moving the Lord to wrath.

And he put out the form of a hand and took me by the hair of my head; and the wind, lifting me up between the earth and the heaven, took me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the way into the inner door facing to the north; where was the seat of the image of envy.

Or may we be the cause of envy to the Lord? are we stronger than he?

With

Shamed be all those who give worship to images, and take pride in false gods; give him worship, all you gods.

You are not to make an image or picture of anything in heaven or on the earth or in the waters under the earth:

So that you may not be turned to evil ways and make for yourselves an image in the form of any living thing, male or female,

Cursed is the man who makes any image of wood or stone or metal, disgusting to the Lord, the work of man's hands, and puts it up in secret. And let all the people say, So be it.

And the children of Israel did evil in the eyes of the Lord and became servants to the Baals;

And again the children of Israel did evil in the eyes of the Lord, worshipping the Baals and Astartes, and the gods of Aram and the gods of Zidon and the gods of Moab and the gods of the children of Ammon and the gods of the Philistines; they gave up the Lord and were servants to him no longer.

Then Solomon put up a high place for Chemosh, the disgusting god of Moab, in the mountain before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the disgusting god worshipped by the children of Ammon.

And he made places for worship at the high places, and made priests, who were not Levites, from among all the people.

The voice of the cry of the daughter of my people comes from a far land: Is the Lord not in Zion? is not her King in her? Why have they made me angry with their images and their strange gods which are no gods?

And now their sins are increased; they have made themselves a metal image, false gods from their silver, after their designs, all of them the work of the metal-workers; they say of them, Let them give offerings, let men give kisses to the oxen.

General references

As they have done from the first, from the day when I took them out of Egypt till this day, turning away from me and worshipping other gods, so now they are acting in the same way to you.