“Yet Isreal tested the Most High God.
They rebelled against him.
They did not observe his decrees.
They turned away.
They were faithless,
Like their ancestors.
They twisted like a treacherous bow.
They provoked him to anger,
With their high places.
They moved him to jealousy,
With their idols.
When God heard,
He was full of wrath.
He utterly rejected Israel.”
When the Israelites got to the holy land, they tested God. They rebelled against him. They did not keep his commandments. They were faithless like their ancestors in the desert. They provoked God to anger when they established the high places dedicated to idols in the countryside. When God heard this he was angry. He then utterly rejected Israel.
Eugene Finnegan Bible Project 