Psalm 78:58

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Psalm 78:58

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

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General references

1 Samuel 8:8

Bible References

Their high

I will destroy your worship sites. I will cut down your incense altars and pile your dead bodies on top of your dead idols. I will view you with disgust.

As you advance, force out all the people who live there. Get rid of all their stone and metal idols, and destroy all their places of worship.

Destroy all the places where the nations you dispossess serve their gods, on the high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree.

I brought them to the land I had promised to give them. When they saw the high hills and green trees, they offered sacrifices at all of them. They made me angry by the sacrifices they burned and by the wine they brought as offerings.

Moved

How long, O Jehovah? Will you remain angry forever? Will your fury (zeal) continue to burn like fire?

Do not worship any other god but Jehovah for his reputation is filled with zeal, and he is a God who demands exclusive devotion.

They made God furious because they worshiped foreign gods and angered him (stirred up his zeal) because they worshiped worthless idols.

They forsook Jehovah God of their fathers, which brought them out of the land of Egypt. They followed other gods, of the gods of the people that were round about them. They bowed to them and provoked Jehovah to anger.

It stretched out what looked like a hand and grabbed me by the hair on my head. In these visions from God, the Spirit carried me between heaven and earth. He took me in vision to Jerusalem, to the entrance of the north gate of the inner court, where the seat of the idol of jealousy, which provokes to jealousy, was located.

Do we provoke Jehovah to rivalry (indignation) (anger)? Are we stronger than he?

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All those who serve graven images are put to shame. Those who boast themselves in idols and all God-like ones bow down before Him.

Do not make your own carved idols or statues that represent any creature in the sky, on the earth, or in the water.

Do not commit the sin of worshiping idols. Do not make idols to be worshiped, whether they are shaped like men, women,

Cursed is the man who makes an idol or a molten image. It is an abomination to Jehovah! It is the secret work of the hands of the craftsman. All the people will answer: Amen.

The children of Israel did evil in the sight of Jehovah, and served Baalim:

Once again the Israelites did evil against Jehovah by worshiping the Baals and the Astartes. They also worshiped the gods of Syria, of Sidon, of Moab, of Ammon, and of the Philistines. They abandoned Jehovah and stopped worshiping him.

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

Jeroboam built worship sites on hilltops. He appointed men who were not descended from Levi to be priests.

Behold, listen! The cry of the daughter of my people from a distant land: Is Jehovah not in Zion? Is her King not within her? Why have they provoked me with their graven images, with foreign idols?

They sin more and more. They make idols from silver for themselves. These idols are skillfully made. All of them are the work of craftsmen. People say this about the Israelites: They offer sacrifices and kiss calf-shaped idols.

General references

Ever since the day I rescued my people from Egypt, they have turned from me to worship idols. Now they are turning away from you.