Deuteronomy 4:24
For LORD thy God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
For the LORD thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God.
In Context
Cross References
Exodus 24:17And the appearance of the glory of LORD was like devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the sons of Israel.
Exodus 34:14for thou shall worship no other god. For LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.
Deuteronomy 5:9Thou shall not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them, for I, LORD thy God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the third and upon the fourth generation of those who hate me,
Deuteronomy 9:3Know therefore this day, that LORD thy God is he who goes over before thee as a devouring fire. He will destroy them, and he will bring them down before thee. So thou shall drive them out, and make them to perish quickly, as LORD h
Deuteronomy 32:16They moved him to jealousy with strange [gods]. With abominations they provoked him to anger.
Psalms 21:9Thou will make them as a fiery furnace in the time of thine anger. LORD will swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them.
Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 4:2-41
Exhortations and Arguments. ( b. c. 1451.) 1 Now therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the judgments, which I teach you, for to do them, that ye may live, and go in and possess the land which the Lord God of your fathers giveth you. 2 Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you. 3 Your eyes have seen what the Lord did because of Baal-peor: for all the men that followed… Read the whole commentary →