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Psalms 78:58

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

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

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

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

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

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BSB
They enraged Him with their high places and provoked His jealousy with their idols.
KJV
For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
WEB
For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their engraved images.
ASV
For they provoked him to anger with their high places, And moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
DARBY
And they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
BLB
And they provoked Him to anger with their high places, and with their carved images they made Him jealous.
ÅB
Og de vakte hans harme med sine offerhauger og gjorde ham nidkjær med sine utskårne bilder.
OTB
For de vakte Hans harme med sine offerhauger
Og vakte Hans sjalusi med sine utskårne bilder.
B1930
Og de vakte hans harme med sine offerhauger og gjorde ham nidkjær med sine utskårne billeder.

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  • Deuteronomy 32:21

    They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

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  • Leviticus 26:30

    And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.

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  • 1 Corinthians 10:22

    Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?

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  • 1 Kings 12:31

    And he made an house of high places, and made priests of the lowest of the people, which were not of the sons of Levi.

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  • Deuteronomy 32:16–17

    They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger.

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  • 1 Kings 11:7

    Then did Solomon build an high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, in the hill that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abomination of the children of Ammon.

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  • Judges 2:11–12

    And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim:

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  • Exodus 20:4–5

    Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:

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