Exodus 20:5
Thou shalt not worship them nor serve them; for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God; visiting the sins of the fathers upon the rebellious children, unto the third generation and to the fourth generation of those who hate Me; while the children continue (or complete) to sin after their fathers;
Targum Onkelos
In The King James Version
In Context
6But doing good to thousands of generations of those who love Me and keep My commandments.
Cross References
Exodus 34:6And the Lord made His Shekinah pass before his face; and he proclaimed, The Lord, the Lord God, Merciful and Gracious, slow to anger, and making goodness and truth to abound;
Exodus 34:14For thou shalt not worship the idols of the peoples; for the Lord, Zealous is His Name, a zealous God is He.
Leviticus 26:1You shall make to you no idols, nor image, nor set up for you a statue; nor a stone for worship shall you make on your land to worship upon it, for I am the Lord your God.
Leviticus 26:39And they who are left of shall pine away in your sins, in their adversaries’ land, and for their sins, also, the evil deeds of their fathers which their own hands hold fast, shall they pine away.
Numbers 14:33And your children shall go about in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your iniquities until your carcases be laid in the wilderness.
Deuteronomy 4:24For the Word of the Lord thy God is a consuming fire: He is a jealous God.
Matthew Henry on Exodus 20:2-12
The Ten Commandments. ( b. c. 1491.) 1 And God spake all these words, saying, 2 I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. 3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me. 4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: 5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the… Read the whole commentary →