Deuteronomy 4:24

For the Lord thy God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

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 ye forget the covenant of the Lord our God, which he made with you, and ye transgress, and make to yourselves a graven image of any of the things concerning which the Lord thy God commanded thee.

25And when thou shalt have begotten sons, and shalt have sons’ sons, and ye shall have dwelt a long time on the land, and shall have transgressed, and made a graven image of anything, and shall have done wickedly before the Lord your God to provoke him;

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Cross References

Exodus 24:17And the appearance of the glory of the Lord was as burning fire on the top of the mountain, before the children of Israel.

Exodus 34:14For ye shall not worship strange gods, for the Lord God, a jealous name, is a jealous God;

Deuteronomy 5:9Thou shalt not bow down to them, nor shalt thou serve them; for I am the Lord thy God, a jealous God, visiting the sins of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation to them that hate me,

Deuteronomy 9:3And thou shalt know today, that the Lord thy God he shall go before thy face: he is a consuming fire; he shall destroy them, and he shall turn them back before thee, and shall destroy them quickly, as the Lord said to thee.

Deuteronomy 32:16They provoked me to anger with strange gods; 1 With their abominations they bitterly angered me. 1

Psalms 21:9He hoped in the Lord: let him deliver him, 1 Let him save him, because he takes pleasure in him. 1

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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