A Warning against Idolatry
Deuteronomy 4:24
In 11 translations
- BSB
- For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.Cited in Hebrews 12:29
- KJV
- For the LORD thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God.
- WEB
- For Yahweh your God is a devouring fire, a jealous God.
- ASV
- For Jehovah thy God is a devouring fire, a jealous God.
- LSV
- for your God YHWH is a consuming fire—a zealous God.
- YLT
- for Jehovah thy God is a fire consuming — a zealous God.
- DBY
- For Jehovah thy God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.ElohimEl
- DRC
- Because the Lord thy God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.
- GNV
- For the Lord thy God is a consuming fire, and a ielous God.
- JPS
- For the LORD thy God is a devouring fire, a jealous God.
- LXXE
- For the Lord thy God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.
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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.
Original-language editions
- WLC
- כִּ֚י יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ אֵ֥שׁ אֹכְלָ֖ה ה֑וּא אֵ֖ל קַנָּֽא׃
- LXX-Br
- Ὅτι Κύριος ὁ Θεός σου πῦρ καταναλίσκον ἐστί, Θεὸς ζηλωτής.
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Cross-references most cited first
- Hebrews 12:29“For our God is a consuming fire.”
- Deuteronomy 9:3But understand that today the LORD your God goes across ahead of you as a consuming fire; He will destroy them and subdue them before you. And you will drive them out and annihilate them swiftly, as the LORD has…
- Nahum 1:6Who can withstand His indignation? Who can endure His burning anger? His wrath is poured out like fire; even rocks are shattered before Him.
- Exodus 24:17And the sight of the glory of the LORD was like a consuming fire on the mountaintop in the eyes of the Israelites.
- Isaiah 33:14The sinners in Zion are afraid; trembling grips the ungodly: “Who of us can dwell with a consuming fire? Who of us can dwell with everlasting flames?”
- Deuteronomy 6:15For the LORD your God, who is among you, is a jealous God. Otherwise the anger of the LORD your God will be kindled against you, and He will wipe you off the face of the earth.
- Zephaniah 3:8Therefore wait for Me,” declares the LORD, “until the day I rise to testify. For My decision is to gather nations, to assemble kingdoms, to pour out upon them My indignation— all My burning anger. For all the earth…
- Exodus 34:14For you must not worship any other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.
- 1 Corinthians 10:22Are we trying to provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than He?
- Exodus 20:5You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,
- Zephaniah 1:18Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them on the Day of the LORD’s wrath. The whole earth will be consumed by the fire of His jealousy.” For indeed, He will make a sudden end of all who dwell on…
- Isaiah 42:8I am the LORD; that is My name! I will not yield My glory to another or My praise to idols.
- Psalms 21:9You will place them in a fiery furnace at the time of Your appearing. In His wrath the LORD will engulf them, and the fire will consume them.
- Deuteronomy 29:20The LORD will never be willing to forgive him. Instead, His anger and jealousy will burn against that man, and every curse written in this book will fall upon him. The LORD will blot out his name from under heaven
- Nahum 1:2The LORD is a jealous and avenging God; the LORD is avenging and full of wrath. The LORD takes vengeance on His foes and reserves wrath for His enemies.
- Deuteronomy 32:21–22They have provoked My jealousy by that which is not God; they have enraged Me with their worthless idols. So I will make them jealous by those who are not a people; I will make them angry by a nation without…
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