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Psalms 78:58

They enraged Him with their high places and provoked His jealousy with their idols.

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For they provoked him to anger with their high places, And moved him to jealousy with their graven images.

KJV

For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.

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וַיַּכְעִיס֥וּהוּvai.yakh.'i.Su.huand they provoked to anger himH3707 →
בְּבָמוֹתָ֑םbe.va.mo.Tamby high places theirH1116 →
וּ֝בִפְסִילֵיהֶ֗םu.vif.si.lei.Hemand by idols theirH6456 →
יַקְנִיאֽוּהוּ׃yak.ni.'U.huthey made jealous himH7065 →

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Deuteronomy 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.Leviticus 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.Numbers 25:11“Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned My wrath away from the Israelites; for he was zealous for My sake among them, so that I did not consume the Israelites in My zeal.1 Kings 14:22And Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD, and by the sins they committed they provoked Him to jealous anger more than all their fathers had done.1 Corinthians 10:22Are we trying to provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than He?1 Kings 12:31Jeroboam also built shrines on the high places and appointed from every class of people priests who were not Levites.Deuteronomy 32:16They provoked His jealousy with foreign gods; they enraged Him with abominations.Deuteronomy 4:24For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.Exodus 20:5You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,Ezekiel 16:24you built yourself a mound and made yourself a lofty shrine in every public square.1 Kings 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.Deuteronomy 32:16–17They provoked His jealousy with foreign gods; they enraged Him with abominations.Deuteronomy 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.Exodus 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.Judges 2:11–12And the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD and served the Baals.Isaiah 65:3to a people who continually provoke Me to My face, sacrificing in the gardens and burning incense on altars of brick,Psalms 106:36They worshiped their idols, which became a snare to them.Zephaniah 1:18Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them on the Day of the LORD’s wrath. The whole earth will be consumed by the fire of His jealousy.” For indeed, He will make a sudden end of all who dwell on the earth.

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