Deuteronomy 4:24
For the LORD thy God is a devouring fire, a jealous God.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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 the LORD was like devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel.
Exodus 34:14For thou shalt bow down to no other god; for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God;
Deuteronomy 5:9Thou shalt not bow down unto them, nor serve them; for I the 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 them that hate Me,
Deuteronomy 9:3Know therefore this day, that the LORD thy God is He who goeth over before thee as a devouring fire; He will destroy them, and He will bring them down before thee; so shalt thou drive them out, and make them to perish quickly, as the LORD hath spoken unto thee.
Deuteronomy 32:16They roused Him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations did they provoke Him.
Psalms 21:9(21-10) Thou shalt make them as a fiery furnace in the time of thine anger; the LORD shall 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 →