Psalms 78:59

God heard and was wroth, And greatly abhorred Israel;

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

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

In Context

58And provoked him to anger with their high places, And, with their images, used to move him to jealousy.

60So he gave up the habitation of Shiloh, The tent he had set up among Men;

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Cross References

Leviticus 20:23So shall ye not walk in the—statutes of the nations, which I am casting out from before you,—For all these things, had they done, Therefore I abhorred them;

Deuteronomy 32:19When Yahweh saw, he derided,—Because his sons and his daughters gave provocation.

Psalms 14:2Yahweh, out of the heavens, looked down over the sons of men,—to see whether there was one that showed wisdom, enquiring after God:—

Lamentations 2:7My Lord hath rejected his altar, hath abhorred his sanctuary, hath delivered, into the hand of the foe, the walls of her castles,—A voice, have they uttered in the house of Yahweh, as on the day of an appointed assembly.

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 →

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