Deuteronomy 4:24
For Jehovah thy God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.
Darby Translation
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 Jehovah was like a consuming fire on the top of the mountain, before the eyes of the children of Israel.
Exodus 34:14For thou shalt worship no other God; for Jehovah Jealous is his name is a jealous God;
Deuteronomy 5:9thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them; for I, Jehovah thy God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons, and upon the third and upon the fourth [generation] of them that hate me,
Deuteronomy 9:3Know then this day, that Jehovah thy God is he that goeth over before thee, a consuming fire; he will destroy them, and he will cast them down before thee, and thou shalt dispossess them and cause them to perish quickly, as Jehovah hath said unto thee.
Deuteronomy 32:16They moved him to jealousy with strange gods, With abominations did they provoke him to anger.
Psalms 21:9Thou shalt make them as a fiery furnace in the time of thy presence; Jehovah shall swallow them up in his anger, 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 →