Psalm 78:58

Lessons From Israel's Past

⁵⁷ but turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers. They were turned aside like a deceitful bow. ⁵⁸ For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images. ⁵⁹ When God heard, he was angry, and greatly abhorred Israel,

Carved Image

Carved Images

Graven Image

Graven Images

High Place

High Places

Other Gods

Provoke Him

Molten Image

Leviticus 26:30

And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your sun-images, and cast your dead bodies upon the bodies of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.

Deuteronomy 32:21

They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God. They have provoked me to anger with their vanities, and I will move them to jealousy with a non-nation. I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

Deuteronomy 12:2

Ye shall surely destroy all the places in which the nations that ye shall dispossess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree.

1 Kings 11:7

Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab on the mount that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech the abomination of the sons of Ammon.

1 Kings 12:31

And he made houses of high places, and made priests from among all the people who were not of the sons of Levi.

Exodus 20:4-5

Thou shall not make to thee a graven image, nor any likeness [of anything] that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.

Exodus 34:14

for thou shall worship no other god. For LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.

Numbers 33:52

then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their figured [stones], and destroy all their molten images, and demolish all their high places.

Deuteronomy 4:16-25

Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make for you a graven image in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female,

Deuteronomy 12:4

Ye shall not do so to LORD your God.

Deuteronomy 27:15

Cursed be the man who makes a graven or molten image, an abomination to LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and sets it up in secret. And all the people shall answer and say, Amen.

Deuteronomy 32:16-17

They moved him to jealousy with strange [gods]. With abominations they provoked him to anger.

Judges 2:11-12

And the sons of Israel did that which was evil in the sight of LORD, and served the Baalim.

Judges 2:17

And yet they did not hearken to their judges, for they played the harlot after other gods, and bowed themselves down to them. They turned aside quickly out of the way in which their fathers walked, obeying the commandments of LORD.

Judges 2:20

And the anger of LORD was kindled against Israel, and he said, Because this nation has transgressed my covenant which I commanded their fathers, and has not hearkened to my voice,

Judges 10:6

And the sons of Israel again did that which was evil in the sight of LORD, and served the Baalim, and the Ashtaroth, and the gods of Syria, and the gods of Sidon, and the gods of Moab, and the gods of the sons of Ammon, and the god

1 Kings 11:10

and had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods. But he did not keep that which LORD commanded.

Psalm 79:5

How long, O LORD? will thou be angry forever? Shall thy jealousy burn like fire?

Psalm 97:7

Let all those be put to shame who serve graven images, who boast themselves of idols. Bow yourselves to him, all ye gods.

Jeremiah 8:19

Behold, the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people from a land that is very far off: Is not LORD in Zion? Is not her King in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, and with foreign vanities?

Ezekiel 8:3-5

And he put forth the form of a hand, and took me by a lock of my head. And the Spirit lifted me up between earth and heaven, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the gate of the inner [court] that looks

Ezekiel 20:28-29

For when I had brought them into the land, which I swore to give to them, then they saw every high hill, and every thick tree, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the provocation of their offering. The

Hosea 13:2

And now they sin more and more, and have made themselves molten images of their silver, even idols according to their own understanding, all of them the work of the craftsmen. They say of them, Let the men who sacrifice kiss the ca

1 Corinthians 10:22

Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?