Salmos 78:58

58 Pues le provocaron con sus lugares altos, y despertaron sus celos con sus imágenes talladas.

Salmos 78:58 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 78:58

For they provoked him to anger with their high places
Which they built to Baal, and other Heathen dieties:

and moved him to jealousy with their graven images;
which they worshipped, see ( Judges 10:6 ) , which idolatry was spiritual adultery, and so made the Lord jealous of them, who stood in the relation of a husband to them, as a man becomes jealous by the unchaste and lascivious conduct of his wife; and such a course of life the Israelites lived, throughout the reigns of the judges, at certain seasons, until the times of Eli and Samuel, when the ark was carried captive, of which mention is made in the following verses.

Salmos 78:58 In-Context

56 Empero ellos tentaron y provocaron al Dios Altísimo, y no guardaron sus testimonios,

57 sino que se volvieron atrás y fueron desleales como sus padres; se desviaron como arco engañoso.

58 Pues le provocaron con sus lugares altos, y despertaron sus celos con sus imágenes talladas.

59 Al oírlo Dios, se indignó, y aborreció a Israel en gran manera.

60 Abandonó la morada en Silo, la tienda que había levantado entre los hombres,