For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.

They provoked him to anger on their hills: and moved him to jealousy with their graven things.

And make Him angry with their high places, And with their graven images make Him zealous,

They made him angry with their high places; moving him to wrath with their images.

And they provoked him to anger with their high places. We have here adduced the species of defection by which the Israelites afforded incontestable evidence that they refused to be faithful to God, and to yield allegiance to him. They had been sufficiently, and more than sufficiently warned, that the service of God would be perverted and contaminated, unless they were regulated in every part of it by the Divine Word; and now, disregarding his whole law, they recklessly follow their own inventions. And the fruits which uniformly proceed from the contempt of the law are, that men who choose rather to follow their own understanding than to submit to the authority of God, become wedded to gross superstitions. The Psalmist complains that the service of God was corrupted by them in two ways; in the first place, by their defacing the glory of God, in setting up for themselves idols and graven images; and, secondly, by their inventing strange and forbidden ceremonies to appease the anger of God.

For they provoked him to anger with their high places - places where idols were worshipped; usually on mountains or elevated places. Leviticus 26:30; compare 1-Kings 3:2; 1-Kings 12:31-32; 2-Kings 17:32; 2-Chronicles 33:17.
And moved him to jealousy - As one is when affections due to himself are bestowed upon another - as in the married life. "With their graven images." Their idols. Graven images are here put for idols in general.

For they (k) provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
(k) By serving God other than he had appointed.

For they provoked him to anger with their high places,.... Which they built to Baal, and other Heathen dieties:
and moved him to jealousy with their graven images; which they worshipped, see Judges 10:6, which idolatry was spiritual adultery, and so made the Lord jealous of them, who stood in the relation of a husband to them, as a man becomes jealous by the unchaste and lascivious conduct of his wife; and such a course of life the Israelites lived, throughout the reigns of the judges, at certain seasons, until the times of Eli and Samuel, when the ark was carried captive, of which mention is made in the following verses.

Idolatry resulted from sparing the heathen (compare Psalm 78:9-11).