Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:(Psalm 78:56)

But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.(Psalm 78:57)

For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.(Psalm 78:58)

When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:

So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men;(Psalm 78:60)

And delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into the enemy's hand.(Psalm 78:61)

He gave his people over also unto the sword; and was wroth with his inheritance.(Psalm 78:62)

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Psalm 78:59 - Cross Reference

And ye shall not walk in the manners of the nation, which I cast out before you: for they committed all these things, and therefore I abhorred them. (Leviticus 20:23)

And when the LORD saw it, he abhorred them, because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters. (Deuteronomy 32:19)

Therefore was the wrath of the LORD kindled against his people, insomuch that he abhorred his own inheritance. (Psalm 106:40)

And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous; (Genesis 18:20)

Three shepherds also I cut off in one month; and my soul lothed them, and their soul also abhorred me. (Zechariah 11:8)

The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God. (Psalm 14:2)

The LORD is in his holy temple, the LORD's throne is in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men. (Psalm 11:4)

And yet for all that, when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them: for I am the LORD their God. (Leviticus 26:44)

The LORD hath cast off his altar, he hath abhorred his sanctuary, he hath given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; they have made a noise in the house of the LORD, as in the day of a solemn feast. (Lamentations 2:7)