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

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General references

1 Samuel 8:8

Bible References

Their high

I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and heap your dead bodies on the lifeless bodies of your idols; I will reject you.

you must drive out all the inhabitants of the land before you, destroy all their stone images and cast images, and demolish all their high places.

Destroy completely all the places where the nations that you are driving out worship their gods—on the high mountains, on the hills, and under every green tree.

When I brought them into the land that I swore to give them and they saw any high hill or leafy tree, they offered their sacrifices and presented their offensive offerings there. They also sent up their pleasing aromas and poured out their drink offerings there.

Moved

How long, Yahweh? Will You be angry forever?
Will Your jealousy keep burning like fire?

You are never to bow down to another god because Yahweh, being jealous by nature, is a jealous God.

They provoked His jealousy with foreign gods;
they enraged Him with detestable practices.

and abandoned the Lord, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of Egypt. They went after other gods from the surrounding peoples and bowed down to them. They infuriated the Lord,

He stretched out what appeared to be a hand and took me by the hair of my head. Then the Spirit lifted me up between earth and heaven and carried me in visions of God to Jerusalem, to the entrance of the inner gate that faces north, where the offensive statue that provokes jealousy was located.

Or are we provoking the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than He?

With

All who serve carved images,
those who boast in idols, will be put to shame.
All the gods must worship Him.

Do not make an idol for yourself, whether in the shape of anything in the heavens above or on the earth below or in the waters under the earth.

not to act corruptly and make an idol for yourselves in the shape of any figure: a male or female form,

‘The person who makes a carved idol or cast image, which is detestable to the Lord, the work of a craftsman, and sets it up in secret is cursed.’
And all the people will reply, ‘Amen!’

The Israelites did what was evil in the Lord’s sight. They worshiped the Baals

Then the Israelites again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord. They worshiped the Baals and the Ashtoreths, the gods of Aram, Sidon, and Moab, and the gods of the Ammonites and the Philistines. They abandoned Yahweh and did not worship Him.

At that time, Solomon built a high place for Chemosh, the detestable idol of Moab, and for Milcom,

the detestable idol of the Ammonites, on the hill across from Jerusalem.

Jeroboam also built shrines on the high places and set up priests from every class of people who were not Levites.

Listen—the cry of my dear people
from a far away land,
“Is the Lord no longer in Zion,
her King not within her?”
Why have they provoked me to anger
with their carved images,
with their worthless foreign idols?

Now they continue to sin
and make themselves a cast image,
idols skillfully made from their silver,
all of them the work of craftsmen.
People say about them,
“Let the men who sacrifice kiss the calves.”

General references

They are doing the same thing to you that they have done to Me, since the day I brought them out of Egypt until this day, abandoning Me and worshiping other gods.