Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Psalms 78:58
For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
58. They provoked Jehovah, the “jealous God” Who can tolerate no rival (Exo 20:5), by their adoption of Canaanite idolatries. Cp. Deu 32:16; Deu 32:21.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
For they provoked him to anger with their high places – places where idols were worshipped; usually on mountains or elevated places. Lev 26:30; compare 1Ki 3:2; 1Ki 12:31-32; 2Ki 17:32; 2Ch 33:17.
And moved him to jealousy – As one is when affections due to himself are bestowed upon another – as in the married life. With their graven images. Their idols. Graven images are here put for idols in general.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
58. Idolatry resulted fromsparing the heathen (compare Ps78:9-11).
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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 Jud 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.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
58. And they provoked him to anger with their high places. We have here adduced the species of defection by which the Israelites afforded incontestable evidence that they refused to be faithful to God, and to yield allegiance to him. They had been sufficiently, and more than sufficiently warned, that the service of God would be perverted and contaminated, unless they were regulated in every part of it by the Divine Word; and now, disregarding his whole law, they recklessly follow their own inventions. And the fruits which uniformly proceed from the contempt of the law are, that men who choose rather to follow their own understanding than to submit to the authority of God, become wedded to gross superstitions. The Psalmist complains that the service of God was corrupted by them in two ways; in the first place, by their defacing the glory of God, in setting up for themselves idols and graven images; and, secondly, by their inventing strange and forbidden ceremonies to appease the anger of God.
Fuente: Calvin’s Complete Commentary
Psa 78:58 For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
Ver. 58. For they provoked him to anger with their high places ] After the manner of the heathens; yet with a good intention, as they called it; because God is to be everywhere worshipped. But this was against an express law, Deu 12:2 Exo 20:3-4 .
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
their high: Lev 26:30, Num 33:52, Deu 12:2, Deu 12:4, Eze 20:28, Eze 20:29
moved: Psa 79:5, Exo 34:14, Deu 32:16, Deu 32:17, Deu 32:21, Jdg 2:12, Jdg 2:20, Eze 8:3-5, 1Co 10:22
with: Psa 97:7, Exo 20:4, Exo 20:5, Deu 4:16-25, Deu 27:15, Jdg 2:11, Jdg 2:17, Jdg 10:6, 1Ki 11:7, 1Ki 11:10, 1Ki 12:31, Jer 8:19, Hos 13:2
Reciprocal: Num 25:11 – that I Deu 4:24 – a jealous God Deu 29:20 – his jealousy Jdg 18:30 – set up 1Ki 11:9 – angry 1Ki 14:22 – they provoked 2Ki 18:4 – removed 2Ki 23:19 – to provoke the Lord 2Ch 21:11 – Moreover Psa 106:36 – And Isa 65:3 – A people Jer 2:7 – ye defiled Jer 2:20 – when upon Jer 17:2 – their altars Eze 16:24 – and hast Hos 11:7 – are bent Zep 1:18 – the fire Zec 8:2 – I was jealous
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
78:58 For they {k} provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
(k) By serving God other than he had appointed.