Psalm 78:58 “They enraged Him with their high places and provoked His jealousy with…”

Psalm 78:58

They enraged Him with their high places and provoked His jealousy with their idols.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

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

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

And they prouoked him to anger with their high places, and mooued him to wrath with their grauen images.

Darby Translation

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

Young's Literal Translation

And make Him angry with their high places, And with their graven images make Him zealous,

Bible in Basic English

They made him angry with their high places; moving him to wrath with their images.

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Cross references

“their high”

Leviticus 26:30 Deuteronomy 12:2 Numbers 33:52 Deuteronomy 12:4 Ezekiel 20:28 Ezekiel 20:29

Leviticus 26:30 · BSB

I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and heap your lifeless bodies on the lifeless remains of your idols; and My soul will despise you.

Deuteronomy 12:2 · BSB

Destroy completely all the places where the nations you are dispossessing have served their gods—atop the high mountains, on the hills, and under every green tree.

Numbers 33:52 · BSB

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

Deuteronomy 12:4 · BSB

You shall not worship the LORD your God in this way.

Ezekiel 20:28 · BSB

When I brought them into the land that I swore to give them and they saw any high hill or leafy tree, there they offered their sacrifices, presented offerings that provoked Me, sent up their fragrant incense, and poured…

Ezekiel 20:29 · BSB

So I asked them: ‘What is this high place to which you go?’ (And to this day it is called Bamah. )

“moved”

Deuteronomy 32:21 1 Corinthians 10:22 Psalm 79:5 Exodus 34:14 Judges 2:20 Ezekiel 8:3–5

Deuteronomy 32:21 · BSB

They have provoked My jealousy by that which is not God; they have enraged Me with their worthless idols. So I will make them jealous by those who are not a people; I will make them angry by a nation without understandin…

1 Corinthians 10:22 · BSB

Are we trying to provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than He?

Psalm 79:5 · BSB

How long, O LORD? Will You be angry forever? Will Your jealousy burn like fire?

Exodus 34:14 · BSB

For you must not worship any other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.

Judges 2:20 · BSB

So the anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He said, “Because this nation has transgressed the covenant I laid down for their fathers and has not heeded My voice,

Ezekiel 8:3–5 · BSB

He stretched out what looked like 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 north gate of the i…

“with”

1 Kings 12:31 1 Kings 11:7 Psalm 97:7 Deuteronomy 4:16–25 Deuteronomy 27:15 Judges 2:17

1 Kings 12:31 · BSB

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

1 Kings 11:7 · BSB

At that time on a hill east of Jerusalem, Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab and for Molech the abomination of the Ammonites.

Psalm 97:7 · BSB

All worshipers of images are put to shame— those who boast in idols. Worship Him, all you gods!

Deuteronomy 4:16–25 · BSB

that you do not act corruptly and make an idol for yourselves of any form or shape, whether in the likeness of a male or female,

Deuteronomy 27:15 · BSB

‘Cursed is the man who makes a carved idol or molten image—an abomination to the LORD, the work of the hands of a craftsman—and sets it up in secret.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’

Judges 2:17 · BSB

Israel, however, did not listen to their judges. Instead, they prostituted themselves with other gods and bowed down to them. They quickly turned from the way of their fathers, who had walked in obedience to the LORD’s c…

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

57They turned back and were faithless like their fathers, twisted like a faulty bow.

59On hearing it, God was furious and rejected Israel completely.

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