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Psalm 78:58 KJV

Psalms · chapter 78 · verse 58

For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.Psalm 78:58 · King James Version

Psalm 78:58 in context

56Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:

57But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.

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

59When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:

60So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men;

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Commentary

The matter and scope of this paragraph are the same with the former, showing what great mercies God had bestowed upon Israel, how provoking they had been, what judgments he had brought upon them for their sins, and yet how, in judgment, he remembered mercy at last.

— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 40-72

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