Psalms 78:58
They made him angry with their high places; moving him to wrath with their images.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
In Context
59When this came to God's ears he was very angry, and gave up Israel completely;
Cross References
Exodus 20:4You are not to make an image or picture of anything in heaven or on the earth or in the waters under the earth:
Leviticus 26:30And I will send destruction on your high places, overturning your perfume altars, and will put your dead bodies on your broken images, and my soul will be turned from you in disgust.
Deuteronomy 4:16So that you may not be turned to evil ways and make for yourselves an image in the form of any living thing, male or female,
Deuteronomy 12:2You are to give up to the curse all those places where the nations, whom you are driving out, gave worship to their gods, on the high mountains and the hills and under every green tree:
Deuteronomy 27:15Cursed is the man who makes any image of wood or stone or metal, disgusting to the Lord, the work of man's hands, and puts it up in secret. And let all the people say, So be it.
Deuteronomy 32:21They have given my honour to that which is not God, moving me to wrath with their false worship: I will give their honour to those who are not a people, moving them to wrath by a foolish nation,
Matthew Henry on Psalms 78:41-72
Judgments and Mercies; Wonders Wrought for Israel; Renewed Mercies 40 How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert! 41 Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel. 42 They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he delivered them from the enemy. 43 How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan: 44 And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink. 45 He sent divers sorts of flies among… Read the whole commentary →