Psalms 78:58

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

Related Commentaries of 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 2...
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...
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...
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 in...
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 t...
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 fro...
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 Israe...
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 tha...
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...
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...
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 th...
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...
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 th...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Judgments and Mercies; Wonders Wrought for Israel; Renewed Mercies to Israel....
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

No text from Poole on this verse.
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...
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 reflec...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

The story of how the children of Israel behaved themselves towards their gracious God. Psalms 78:10-16 . They kept not the covenant of God, and re...
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...
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...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Narrative of God's Deeds
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

For they provoked Him to anger with their high places, the altars on the hills devoted to idolatry, and moved Him to jealousy with their graven imag...
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...

⁵⁸ For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 78:58

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 78:58