Psalms 78:58

58 They made God angry by going to their high places. They made him jealous by worshiping the statues of their gods.

Psalms 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.

Psalms 78:58 In-Context

56 But they put God to the test. They refused to obey the Most High God. They didn't keep his laws.

57 Like their people who lived before them, they turned away from him and were not faithful. They were like a bow that doesn't shoot straight. They couldn't be trusted.

58 They made God angry by going to their high places. They made him jealous by worshiping the statues of their gods.

59 When God saw what the people were doing, he was very angry. He turned away from them completely.

60 He deserted the holy tent at Shiloh. He left the tent he had set up among his people.