Psalm 78:58

Lessons From Israel's Past

⁵⁷ And they turned and were treacherous like their ancestors. They twisted like a crooked bow. ⁵⁸ For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and made him jealous with their images. ⁵⁹ God heard and he was very angry and rejected Israel utterly.

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 I will cut down your incense altars, and I will place your corpses on your idols' corpses; and my inner self shall abhor you.

Deuteronomy 32:21

They annoyed me with [what is] not a god; they provoked me with their idols. So I will make them jealous with [those] not a people, with a foolish nation I will provoke them.

Deuteronomy 12:2

You must completely demolish all [of] the places there where [they] served their gods, [that is], the nations whom you [are] about to dispossess, on the high mountains, and on the hills and under each leafy green tree.

1 Kings 11:7

At that time, Solomon built a high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, on the mountain which {faces} Jerusalem and for Molech, the abomination of the {Ammonites}.

1 Kings 12:31

Then he built the houses on the high places, and he appointed priests {from all walks of life} who were not from the sons of Levi.

Exodus 20:4-5

"You shall not make for yourself a divine image [with] any form that [is] in the heavens above or that [is] in the earth below or that [is] in the water below the earth.

Exodus 34:14

For you will not bow in worship to another god, for 'Yahweh [Is] Jealous' is his name, he [is] a jealous God,

Numbers 33:52

you will drive out the inhabitants of the land from your presence, and you will destroy all their idols and all the images of their molten idols, and you will demolish all their high places;

Deuteronomy 4:16-25

so that you [do] not {ruin yourselves} and make for yourselves a divine image [in] a form of any image, a replica of male or female,

Deuteronomy 12:4

You shall not worship Yahweh your God like this.

Deuteronomy 27:15

'Cursed be the man that makes a divine image or a cast image, [which is] a detestable thing for Yahweh, the work of the hand of a skilled craftsman, and [then] sets [it] in a hiding place.' And {all the people shall respond}, 'Amen.'

Deuteronomy 32:16-17

They made him jealous with strange [gods]; with detestable things they provoked him.

Judges 2:11-12

The {Israelites} did evil in the eyes of Yahweh, and {they served} the Baals.

Judges 2:17

But they did not listen to their leaders, but lusted after other gods and bowed down to them. They turned away quickly from the way that their ancestors went, who had obeyed the commandment of Yahweh; they did not do [as their ancestors].

Judges 2:20

{So the anger of Yahweh burned} against Israel, and he said, "Because this people transgressed my covenant that I commanded their ancestors, and have not obeyed my voice,

Judges 10:6

And again, the {Israelites} did evil in the eyes of Yahweh. They served the Baals, the Ashtaroth, the gods of Aram, Sidon, Moab, and the gods of the {Ammonites} and Philistines; they abandoned Yahweh and did not serve him.

1 Kings 11:10

And he had commanded him concerning this matter not to go after other gods, but he did not keep that which Yahweh commanded.

Psalm 79:5

How long, O Yahweh? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?

Psalm 97:7

Let all who serve an image be ashamed, those who boast about idols. Worship him, all you gods.

Jeremiah 8:19

Look, the sound of the cry for help of the daughter of my people from a distant land, 'Is Yahweh not in Zion? Is her king not in her?' Why have they provoked me to anger with their images, with idols of a foreign land?"

Ezekiel 8:3-5

And he sent out [the] form of a hand, and he took me by a lock of hair of my head, and [the] Spirit lifted me between earth and heaven, and it brought me to Jerusalem in visions of God to the doorway of [the] inner gate {that faced north}, [at] which there [was] the seat of the image of jealousy, which was making jealous.

Ezekiel 20:28-29

And I brought them to the land that {I swore} to give to them, and they saw every high hill and every leafy tree, and they offered their sacrifices, and they presented there the provocation of their offering, and they gave there their fragrant incense offering, and they poured out their libations there.

Hosea 13:2

And now they sin again, and they make for themselves a molten idol, idols from their silver metal according to their understanding, all of them the work of skilled craftsmen. To these they say, "Sacrifice!" People are kissing bull calves.

1 Corinthians 10:22

Or are we attempting to provoke the Lord to jealousy? We are not stronger than he [is, are we]?