Deuteronomy 6:15
for a zealous God [is] Jehovah thy God in thy midst — lest the anger of Jehovah thy God burn against thee, and He hath destroyed thee from off the face of the ground.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
14ye do not go after other gods, of the gods of the peoples who [are] round about you;
16'Ye do not try Jehovah your God as ye tried in Massah;
Cross References
Exodus 20:5Thou dost not bow thyself to them, nor serve them: for I, Jehovah thy God, [am] a zealous God, charging iniquity of fathers on sons, on the third [generation], and on the fourth, of those hating Me,
Numbers 32:10and the anger of Jehovah burneth in that day, and He sweareth, saying,
Deuteronomy 4:24for Jehovah thy God is a fire consuming — a zealous God.
Deuteronomy 7:4for he doth turn aside thy son from after Me, and they have served other gods, and the anger of Jehovah hath burned against you, and hath destroyed thee hastily.
Joshua 23:12'But — if ye at all turn back and have cleaved to the remnant of these nations, these who are left with you, and intermarried with them, and gone in to them, and they to you,
1 Kings 13:34And in this thing is the sin of the house of Jeroboam, even to cut [it] off, and to destroy [it] from off the face of the ground.
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 →