Deuteronomy 4:24
Deuteronomy chapter 4 · verse 24 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000For Jehovah thy God is a devouring fire, a jealous God.
KJV
King James Version · 1611For the Lord thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901For Jehovah thy God is a devouring fire, a jealous God.
Context
v.23Take heed unto yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of Jehovah your God, which he made with you, and make you a graven image in the form of anything which Jehovah thy God hath forbidden thee.
v.24This passage
v.25When thou shalt beget children, and children’s children, and ye shall have been long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make a graven image in the form of anything, and shall do that which is evil in the sight of Jehovah thy God, to provoke him to anger;
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Psalms 21:9
Thou wilt make them as a fiery furnace in the time of thine anger: Jehovah will swallow them up in his wrath, And the fire shall devour them.
- Isaiah 42:8
I am Jehovah, that is my name; and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise unto graven images.
- Deuteronomy 5:9
thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them; for I, Jehovah, thy God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the third and upon the fourth generation of them that hate me;
- Exodus 24:17
And the appearance of the glory of Jehovah was like devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel.
- Psalms 78:58
For they provoked him to anger with their high places, And moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
- Deuteronomy 6:15
for Jehovah thy God in the midst of thee is a jealous God; lest the anger of Jehovah thy God be kindled against thee, and he destroy thee from off the face of the earth.