Deuteronomy 6:15
for the LORD your God among you is a jealous God, lest the anger of the LORD your God be kindled against you, and he destroy you from off the face of the earth.
World English Bible Classic
In The King James Version
In Context
14You shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the peoples who are around you,
16You shall not tempt the LORD your God, as you tempted him in Massah.
Cross References
Exodus 20:5you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me,
Numbers 32:10The LORD’s anger burned in that day, and he swore, saying,
Deuteronomy 4:24For the LORD your God is a devouring fire, a jealous God.
Deuteronomy 7:4For that would turn away your sons from following me, that they may serve other gods. So the LORD’s anger would be kindled against you, and he would destroy you quickly.
Joshua 23:12“But if you do at all go back, and hold fast to the remnant of these nations, even these who remain among you, and make marriages with them, and go in to them, and they to you;
1 Kings 13:34This thing became sin to the house of Jeroboam, even to cut it off and to destroy it from off the surface of the earth.
Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 6:5-17
Cautions and Precepts. ( b. c. 1451.) 4 Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord : 5 And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. 6 And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: 7 And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. 8 And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine… Read the whole commentary →