Exodus 34:14

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

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

For thou shalt worship no other god: for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God:

In Context

13For their altars, shall ye smash, And their pillars, shall ye shiver,—And their sacred-stems, shall ye fell.

15Lest thou solemnise a covenant with the inhabitant of the land,—And then as surely as they go unchastely after their gods and sacrifice to their gods, So surely will he invite thee, And thou wilt eat of his sacrifice;

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Cross References

Exodus 20:5thou 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, unto three [generations] and, unto four, of them that hate me;

Exodus 34:5And Yahweh descended in the cloud, and took his station with him there,—and proclaimed himself by the name Yahweh.

Deuteronomy 5:7Thou shalt not have other gods, besides me:

Deuteronomy 6:15for a jealous GOD, is Yahweh thy God in thy midst,—lest the anger of Yahweh thy God kindle upon thee, and so he destroy thee from off the face of the ground.

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

Joshua 24:19Then said Joshua unto the people—Ye cannot serve Yahweh, for, a holy God, he is, a jealous GOD, he is, he will not forgive your transgression, nor your sins.

Matthew Henry on Exodus 34:11-18

A Caution Against Idolatry. ( b. c. 1491.) 10 And he said, Behold, I make a covenant: before all thy people I will do marvels, such as have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation: and all the people among which thou art shall see the work of the Lord : for it is a terrible thing that I will do with thee. 11 Observe thou that which I command thee this day: behold, I drive out before thee the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite. 12 Take heed to… Read the whole commentary →

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