Thursday, July 25, 2019

Psalm 78:56-58

But they put God to the test and rebelled against the Most High; they did not keep his statutes. Like their ancestors they were disloyal and faithless, as unreliable as a faulty bow. They angered him with their high places; they aroused his jealousy with their idols.

Like their ancestors they were disloyal and faithless 
2 Chronicles 30:7  "Do not be like your parents and your fellow Israelites, who were unfaithful to the LORD, the God of their ancestors, so that he made them an object of horror, as you see." 
Ezekiel 20:27-28  "Therefore, son of man, speak to the people of Israel and say to them, 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says: In this also your ancestors blasphemed me by being unfaithful to me: When I brought them into the land I swore to give them and they saw any high hill or any leafy tree, there they offered their sacrifices, made offerings that aroused my anger, presented their fragrant incense and poured out their drink offerings.' "

as unreliable as a faulty bow 
Psalm 78:9-10  The men of Ephraim, though armed with bows, turned back on the day of battle; they did not keep God's covenant and refused to live by his law.

They angered him 
Judges 2:12-13  They forsook the LORD, the God of their ancestors, who brought them out of Egypt. They followed and worshiped various gods of the peoples around them. They aroused the LORD's anger because they forsook him and served Baal and the Ashtoreths.

with their high places 
Leviticus 26:30  " 'I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars and pile your dead bodies on the lifeless forms of your idols, and I will abhor you.' "

they aroused his jealousy with their idols 
Exodus 20:4  "You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below." (also Deuteronomy 5:8)
Deuteronomy 32:21  "They made me jealous by what is no god and angered me with their worthless idols. I will make them envious by those who are not a people; I will make them angry by a nation that has no understanding."

(parentheses are mine)

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