Psalms 78:58 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

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

Psalms 78:58 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For they provoked him to anger with their high places - places where idols were worshipped; usually on mountains or elevated places. Leviticus 26:30 ; compare 1Ki 3:2 ; 1 Kings 12:31-32 ; 2...
Psalms 78:58 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

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.
Psalms 78:58 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

LXXVIII. The Lesson of Israel's History. The northern tribes have been perverse from the first. Their wickedness has culminated in the schismatical religion of the Samaritans. God, on the contrary,...
Psalms 78:58 - Calvin's Commentary on the 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 faith...
Psalms 78:58 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
Psalms 78:58 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies: -Israel's unfaithfulness in the time of the Judges caused God to forsake the tabernacle of Shiloh, and brought do...
Psalms 78:58 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

This long historical Ps. may be compared with Psalms 105, 106, and with Deuteronomy 32 . It traces the course of God's relations with His people from the exodus down to the time of David, and dwells...
Psalms 78:58 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 78:1-72 THIS psalm is closely related to Psalms 105:1-45 ; Psalms 106:1-48 ; Psalms 107:1-43 . Like them, it treats the history of Israel, and especially the Exodus and wilderness wander...
Psalms 78:58 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Safely Led, Yet Bent on Wandering Psalms 78:49-58 This section of the psalm deals largely with the books of Joshua and Judges. The failures that had characterized the Wilderness crossed the Jor...
Psalms 78:58 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The supreme quantity of this psalm is that throughout all its measures, over against the repeated failure of His people God's persistent patience is set forth in bold relief. The purpose of the psalm...
Psalms 78:58 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Here a sweet contrast is drawn, in the view of divine love and compassion, notwithstanding human ingratitude. The sacred writer takes up the subject in tracing the history of the church even into Can...
Psalms 78:58 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire 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 Ju...
Psalms 78:58 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

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...
Psalms 78:58 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

And dealt unfaithfully like their fathers They imitated their forefathers, both in their frequent apostacies from God, and in their falseness to their promises, when they pretended to repent of the...
Psalms 78:58 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Judgments and Mercies; Wonders Wrought for Israel; Renewed Mercies to Israel. 40 How oft did they p...
Psalms 78:58 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

No text from Poole on this verse.
Psalms 78:58 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

INTRODUCTION Superscription,—“Maschil of Asaph ,” i.e. , an instruction of Asaph, a didactic song by Asaph. The Psalm was probably written by the celebrated Asaph in the time of David. Occasion...
Psalms 78:58 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

This story of the children of Israel, after they came out of Egypt, is like a looking-glass in which we may, with great sadness, see ourselves reflected. Psalms 78:9 . The children of Ephraim, bei...
Psalms 78:58 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Title. Maschil of Asaph. Rabbi Kimchi says, that this title, which signifies to give instruction, designates also the species of music or melody to which the words were set, as is now the practice...
Psalms 78:58 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION This, the first of the "historical psalms," though assigned by the rationalistic school (De Wette, Ewald, Koster, Hitzig) to a period subsequent to the Captivity, is generally allowed...
Psalms 78:58 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Narrative of God's Deeds
Psalms 78:58 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Corinthians 10:22 ; 1 Kings 11:10 ; 1 Kings 11:7 ; 1 Kings 12:31 ; Deuteronomy 12:2 ; Deuteronomy 12:4 ; Deuteronomy 27:15 ; Deuteronomy 32:16 ; Deuteronomy 32:17 ; Deuteronomy 32:21 ; D...

Psalms 78:58 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Psalms 78:58 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Psalms 78:58 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 78:58 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 78:58 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Psalms 78:58 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Psalms 78:58 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 78:58 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 78:58 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Psalms 78:58 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Psalms 78:58 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Psalms 78:58 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Psalms 78:58 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Psalms 78:58 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 78:58 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Psalms 78:58 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Psalms 78:58 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Psalms 78:58 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Psalms 78:58 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 78:58 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Psalms 78:58 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Psalms 78:58 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge