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Psalms 78:58 Cross-References
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“For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.”
Psalms 78:58 (KJV)
Commentary on Psalms 78:58
For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images. The causative For explains Israel's treachery—idolatry, the ultimate covenant violation. High places (bamot, בָּמוֹת) were elevated worship sites, often Canaanite shrines Israel adopted for syncretistic worship. They provoked him to anger (vakhi'isuhu, וַיַּכְעִיסוּהוּ), using vocabulary of intense emotional response to betrayal.Moved him to jealousy (yakni'uhu, יַקְנִיאוּהוּ) employs marital language—God's jealousy isn't petty envy but righteous zeal for exclusive relationship. He is 'a ...
Source: KJV Study Commentary
Cross-References for Psalms 78:58
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“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 those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.”
“and cut down your incense altars”
“Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?”
“and made priests from among all the people”
“on the mountain that is before Jerusalem”
“on the high mountains”
“and destroy all their figured [stones]”
“Because this nation have transgressed my covenant which I commanded their fathers”
“who boast in their idols. Worship him”
“and have made themselves molten images of their silver”