Psalms 78:58

They provoked God with idolatrous high places and images. Their idolatry stirred His jealousy.

Cross-references · 24

• Deut 32:21They 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 understanding.
• Lev 26:30I 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.
• 1 Kgs 12:31Jeroboam also built shrines on the high places and appointed from every class of people priests who were not Levites.
• 1 Cor 10:22Are we trying to provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than He?
• 1 Kgs 11:7At 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.
• Deut 32:16–17They provoked His jealousy with foreign gods; they enraged Him with abominations.
• Exod 20:4–5You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in the heavens above, on the earth below, or in the waters beneath.
• Deut 12:2Destroy 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.
• Judg 2:11–12And the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD and served the Baals.
• Deut 12:4You shall not worship the LORD your God in this way.
• 1 Kgs 11:10Although He had warned Solomon explicitly not to follow other gods, Solomon did not keep the LORD’s command.
• Ps 79:5How long, O LORD? Will You be angry forever? Will Your jealousy burn like fire?
• Deut 4:16–25that 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,
• Judg 10:6And again the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD. They served the Baals, the Ashtoreths, the gods of Aram, Sidon, and Moab, and the gods of the Ammonites and Philistines. Thus they forsook the LORD and did not serve Him.
• Ps 97:7All worshipers of images are put to shame—those who boast in idols. Worship Him, all you gods!
• Ezek 20:28–29When 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 out their drink offerings.
• Judg 2:17Israel, 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 commandments; they did not do as their fathers had done.
• Hos 13:2Now they sin more and more and make for themselves cast images, idols skillfully made from their silver, all of them the work of craftsmen. People say of them, “They offer human sacrifice and kiss the calves!”
• Deut 27:15‘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!’
• Judg 2:20So 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,
• Jer 8:19Listen to the cry of the daughter of my people from a land far away: “Is the LORD no longer in Zion? Is her King no longer there?” “Why have they provoked Me to anger with their carved images, with their worthless foreign idols?”
• Exod 34:14For you must not worship any other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.
• Num 33:52you 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.
• Ezek 8:3–5He 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 inner court, where the idol that provokes jealousy was seated.

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