Psalms 78:58

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

Cross-references · 24

• Deut 32:21They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God. They have provoked me to anger with their vanities. I will move them to jealousy with those who are not a people. I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
• Lev 26:30I will destroy your high places, and cut down your incense altars, and cast your dead bodies upon the bodies of your idols; and my soul will abhor you.
• 1 Kgs 12:31He made houses of high places, and made priests from among all the people, who were not of the sons of Levi.
• 1 Cor 10:22Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?
• 1 Kgs 11:7Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, on the mountain that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech the abomination of the children of Ammon.
• Deut 32:16–17They moved him to jealousy with strange gods. They provoked him to anger with abominations.
• Exod 20:4–5“You shall not make for yourselves an idol, nor any image of anything that is in the heavens above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:
• Deut 12:2You shall surely destroy all the places in which the nations that you shall dispossess served their gods, on the high mountains, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
• Judg 2:11–12The children of Israel did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and served the Baals.
• Deut 12:4You shall not do so to Yahweh your God.
• 1 Kgs 11:10and had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods; but he didn’t keep that which Yahweh commanded.
• Ps 79:5How long, Yahweh? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?
• Deut 4:16–25lest you corrupt yourselves, and make yourself an engraved image in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female,
• Judg 10:6The children of Israel again did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and served the Baals, the Ashtaroth, the gods of Syria, the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines. They abandoned Yahweh, and didn’t serve him.
• Ps 97:7Let all them be shamed who serve engraved images, who boast in their idols. Worship him, all you gods!
• Ezek 20:28–29For 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; there also they made their pleasant aroma, and they poured out there their drink offerings.
• Judg 2:17Yet they didn’t listen to their judges; for they prostituted themselves to other gods, and bowed themselves down to them. They turned aside quickly out of the way in which their fathers walked, obeying Yahweh’s commandments. They didn’t do so.
• Hos 13:2Now 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, ‘They offer human sacrifice and kiss the calves.’
• Deut 27:15‘Cursed is the man who makes an engraved or molten image, an abomination to Yahweh, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and sets it up in secret.’ All the people shall answer and say, ‘Amen.’
• Judg 2:20Yahweh’s anger burned against Israel; and he said, “Because this nation transgressed my covenant which I commanded their fathers, and has not listened to my voice,
• Jer 8:19Behold, the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people from a land that is very far off: “Isn’t Yahweh in Zion? Isn’t her King in her?” “Why have they provoked me to anger with their engraved images, and with foreign vanities?”
• Exod 34:14for you shall worship no other god: for Yahweh, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.
• Num 33:52then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, destroy all their stone idols, destroy all their molten images, and demolish all their high places.
• Ezek 8:3–5He stretched out the form of a hand, and took me by a lock of my head; and the Spirit lifted me up between earth and the sky, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the gate of the inner court that looks toward the north; where there was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provokes to jealousy.

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