Deuteronomy 4:24

for your God YHWH is a consuming fire—a zealous God.

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

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

In Context

23Take heed to yourselves lest you forget the covenant of your God YHWH which He has made with you, and have made a carved image for yourselves, a likeness of anything [concerning] which your God YHWH has charged you;

25When you beget sons and sons’ sons, and you have become old in the land, and have done corruptly, and have made a carved image, a likeness of anything, and have done evil in the eyes of YHWH to provoke Him to anger,

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Cross References

Exodus 24:17And the appearance of the glory of YHWH [is] as a consuming fire on the top of the mountain, before the eyes of the sons of Israel;

Exodus 34:14for you do not bow yourselves to another god—for YHWH, whose Name [is] Zealous, is a zealous God.

Deuteronomy 5:9You do not bow yourself to them, nor serve them: for I, your God YHWH, [am] a zealous God, charging iniquity of fathers on sons, and on a third and on a fourth [generation] of those hating Me,

Deuteronomy 9:3And you have known today that your God YHWH [is] He who is passing over before you [as] a consuming fire; He destroys them, and He humbles them before you, and you have dispossessed them, and destroyed them quickly, as YHWH has spoken to you.

Deuteronomy 32:16They make Him zealous with strangers, || They make Him angry with abominations.

Psalms 21:9You make them as a furnace of fire, || At the time of Your presence. YHWH swallows them in His anger, || And fire devours 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 →

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