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58For they provoked him to anger{H8686)} with their high places, and moved him to jealousy{H8686)} with their graven images.
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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.
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.
Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?
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.
Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree:
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 40-72)The matter and scope of this paragraph are the same with the former, showing what great mercies God had bestowed upon Israel, how provoking they had been, what judgments he had brought upon them for their sins, and yet how, in judgment, he remembered mercy at last. Let not those that receive mercy from God be thereby emboldened to sin, for the mercies they receive will aggravate their sin and hast…
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