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Psalm 78:58

New American Bible - revised edition

They enraged him with their high places, and with their idols provoked him to jealous anger.

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and commanded him not to do this very thing, not to follow other gods. But he did not observe what the Lord commanded.

Solomon then built a high place to Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, and to Molech, the abomination of the Ammonites, on the mountain opposite Jerusalem.

He also built temples on the high places and made priests from among the common people who were not Levites. Divine Disapproval.

They adopted unlawful practices toward the Lord, their God. They built high places in all their cities, from guard post to garrisoned town.

The Asherah idol he had made, he placed in the Lord’s house, of which the Lord had said to David and to his son Solomon: In this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I shall set my name forever.

He also set up high places in the mountains of Judah, prostituting the inhabitants of Jerusalem, leading Judah astray. Jehoram Punished.

How long, Lord? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealous anger keep burning like fire?

All who serve idols are put to shame, who glory in worthless things; all gods bow down before him.

You shall not bow down to any other god, for the Lord—“Jealous” his name—is a jealous God.

Listen! the cry of the daughter of my people, far and wide in the land! “Is the Lord no longer in Zion, is her King no longer in her midst?” Why do they provoke me with their idols, with their foreign nonentities?

Now they continue to sin, making for themselves molten images, Silver idols according to their skill, all of them the work of artisans. “To these, offer sacrifice,” they say. People kiss calves!

I will demolish your high places, overthrow your incense stands, and cast your corpses upon the corpses of your idols. In my loathing of you,

dispossess all the inhabitants of the land before you; destroy all their stone figures, destroy all their molten images, and demolish all their high places.

Or are we provoking the Lord to jealous anger? Are we stronger than he? Seek the Good of Others.

Destroy entirely all the places where the nations you are to dispossess serve their gods, on the high mountains, on the hills, and under every green tree.

That is not how you are to act toward the Lord, your God.

“Cursed be anyone who makes a carved or molten idol, an abomination to the Lord, the work of a craftsman’s hands, and sets it up in secret!” And all the people shall answer, “Amen!”

Since they have incited me with a “no-god,” and provoked me with their empty idols, I will incite them with a “no-people”; with a foolish nation I will provoke them.

The Israelites again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, serving the Baals and Ashtarts, the gods of Aram, the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the Ammonites, and the gods of the Philistines. Since they had abandoned the Lord and would not serve him,

but they did not listen to their judges either, for they prostituted themselves by following other gods, bowing down to them. They were quick to stray from the way their ancestors had taken, who obeyed the commandments of the Lord; but these did not.

The anger of the Lord flared up against Israel, and he said: Because this nation has transgressed my covenant, which I enjoined on their ancestors, and has not listened to me,

But he himself turned back at the sculptured stones near Gilgal, and said, “I have a secret message for you, O king.” And the king said, “Silence!” Then when all his attendants had left his presence,




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