Deuteronomy 4:24

For the Lord your God is an all-burning fire, and he will not let the honour which is his be given to any other.

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In The King James Version

For the LORD thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God.

In Context

23Take care that you do not let the agreement of the Lord your God, which he has made with you, go out of your mind, or make for yourselves images of any sort, against the orders which the Lord your God has given you.

25If, when you have had children and children's children, and have been living a long time in the land, you are turned to evil ways, and make an image of any sort, and do evil in the eyes of the Lord your God, moving him to wrath:

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Cross References

Exodus 24:17And the glory of the Lord was like a flame on the top of the mountain before the eyes of the children of Israel.

Exodus 34:14For you are to be worshippers of no other god: for the Lord is a God who will not give his honour to another.

Deuteronomy 5:9You may not go down on your faces before them or give them worship: for I, the Lord your God, am a God who will not give his honour to another; and I will send punishment on the children for the wrongdoing of their fathers, to the third and fourth generation of my haters;

Deuteronomy 9:3Be certain then today that it is the Lord your God who goes over before you like an all-burning fire; he will send destruction on them, crushing them before you; and you will send them in flight, putting an end to them quickly, as the Lord has said.

Deuteronomy 32:16The honour which was his they gave to strange gods; by their disgusting ways he was moved to wrath.

Psalms 21:9\21:8\Your hand will make a search for all your haters; your right hand will be hard on all those who are against you.

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 →

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