Psalm 78:58

58 For they provoked him to anger with their high places; they moved him to jealousy with their idols.

Psalm 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.

Psalm 78:58 In-Context

56 Yet they tested the Most High God, and rebelled against him. They did not observe his decrees,

57 but turned away and were faithless like their ancestors; they twisted like a treacherous bow.

58 For they provoked him to anger with their high places; they moved him to jealousy with their idols.

59 When God heard, he was full of wrath, and he utterly rejected Israel.

60 He abandoned his dwelling at Shiloh, the tent where he dwelt among mortals,