Deuteronomy 4:24

seeing that as for Yahweh thy God, a consuming fire, he is,—a jealous GOD.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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 Yahweh your God, which he hath solemnised with you,—and so make for yourselves an image, the form of anything, the which Yahweh thy God hath forbidden thee;

25When thou shalt beget sons, and sons’ sons, and become careless in the land and break faith and make an image the form of any thing, and shalt do the thing that is wicked in the eyes of Yahweh thy God provoking him to anger,

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Cross References

Exodus 24:17And the appearance of the glory of Yahweh was like a consuming fire on the top of the mountain,—in the sight of the sons of Israel.

Exodus 34:14For thou shalt not bow thyself down to another GOD,—For as for Yahweh, Jealous, is his name, A jealous GOD, he is:

Deuteronomy 5:9thou shalt not bow thyself down to them nor be led to serve them,—for, I Yahweh thy God, am a jealous GOD, visiting the iniquity of fathers upon sons even unto three generations and unto four, unto them that hate me;

Deuteronomy 9:3So then, thou must consider to-day, that Yahweh thy God, he it is that is passing over before thee as a consuming fire, he, will destroy them, and, he, will cause them to bow down before thee,—so shalt thou dispossess them, and destroy them speedily, as Yahweh hath spoken unto thee.

Deuteronomy 32:16They moved him to jealousy with foreign [gods],—With abominations, angered they him:

Psalms 21:9Thou wilt make them like a furnace of fire, at the time of thy presence,—Yahweh, in his anger, will swallow them up, and there shall consume them a fire:

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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