For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
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Gill's Exposition
When God heard this,.... Their building high places, and sacrificing on them, their making and worshipping graven images, and the language which such actions spoke; who also heard what they said to…
Barnes' Notes
For they provoked him to anger with their high places - places where idols were worshipped; usually on mountains or elevated places. Lev 26:30; compare 1Ki 3:2; 1Ki 12:31-32; 2Ki 17:32; 2Ch 33:17. And…
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…
Cambridge Bible
They provoked Jehovah, the "jealous God" Who can tolerate no rival (Exo 20:5), by their adoption of Canaanite idolatries. Cp. Deu 32:16; Deu 32:21.
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