Text: Psalm 78:58-59
OT Text Referred to: Deuteronomy 5:8
Subject: Idol-making provokes divine jealousy
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): None
Significance: Deuteronomy 5:8 prohibits making idols "in the form of anything in the heavens above, on the earth below, or in the waters beneath," and Psalm 78:58 records Israel's violation: "They provoked Him to anger with their high places and aroused His jealousy (יַקְנִיאוּהוּ, yaqni'uhu) with their graven images (פְּסִילֵיהֶם, pesileihem)." The psalm uses the exact term for "graven images" (פֶּסֶל, pesel) that the second commandment prohibits and invokes the divine jealousy (קִנְאָה, qin'ah) that Deuteronomy 5:9 warns is the consequence of idolatry. The psalmist presents Israel's history of idol-worship as the direct trigger for God's abandonment of Shiloh (78:60), showing the concrete historical consequences of violating the commandment.