Exodus 20:3
You shall have no other gods before me.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
In Context
Cross References
Exodus 15:11Who is like unto you, O LORD, among the gods? who is like you, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?
Exodus 22:19Whosoever lies with a beast shall surely be put to death.
Deuteronomy 5:7You shall have no other gods before me.
Deuteronomy 6:14All of you shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the people which are round about you;
Judges 6:10And I said unto you, I am the LORD your God; fear not the gods of the Amorites, in whose land all of you dwell: but all of you have not obeyed my voice.
2 Kings 17:29Nevertheless every nation made gods of their own, and put them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities wherein they dwelt.
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 →