Deuteronomy 4:24
For the Lord thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God.
Deuteronomy 4:24 in other translations
| BSB | For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God. |
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| WEB | For the LORD your God is a devouring fire, a jealous God. |
| ASV | For Jehovah thy God is a devouring fire, a jealous God. |
| YLT | for Jehovah thy God is a fire consuming--a zealous God. |
| DARBY | For Jehovah thy God is a consuming fire, a jealous God. |
| BBE | For the Lord your God is an all-burning fire, and he will not let the honour which is his be given to any other. |
| Webster | For the LORD thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God. |
What does Deuteronomy 4:24 mean?
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Deuteronomy 4:24-40
Matthew Henry, 1706 · public domain
Deuteronomy 4:24 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Deuteronomy 4:24
- Hebrews 12:29
For our God is a consuming fire.
- Deuteronomy 9:3
Understand therefore this day, that the Lord thy God is he which goeth over before thee; as a consuming fire he shall destroy them, and he shall bring them down before thy face: so shalt thou drive them out, and destroy them quickly, as the Lord hath said unto thee.
- Exodus 24:17
And the sight of the glory of the Lord was like devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel.
- Nahum 1:6
Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him.
- Isaiah 33:14
The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?
- Deuteronomy 6:15
(For the Lord thy God is a jealous God among you) lest the anger of the Lord thy God be kindled against thee, and destroy thee from off the face of the earth.
- Exodus 34:14
For thou shalt worship no other god: for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God:
- 1 Corinthians 10:22
Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?
- Exodus 20:5
Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
- Zephaniah 3:8
Therefore wait ye upon me, saith the Lord, until the day that I rise up to the prey: for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour upon them mine indignation, even all my fierce anger: for all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.
- Zephaniah 1:18
Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the Lord’s wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.
- Isaiah 42:8
I am the Lord: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.
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Context
- Deuteronomy 4:23
Take heed unto yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of the Lord your God, which he made with you, and make you a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, which the Lord thy God hath forbidden thee.
- Deuteronomy 4:24
For the Lord thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God.
- Deuteronomy 4:25
When thou shalt beget children, and children’s children, and ye shall have remained long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, and shall do evil in the sight of the Lord thy God, to provoke him to anger:
Deuteronomy 4:24 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Porque Jehová tu Dios es fuego que consume, Dios celoso. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Car l’ Éternel, ton Dieu, est un feu consumant, un ✶Dieu jaloux. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Denn Jehova, dein Gott, ist ein verzehrendes Feuer, ein eifernder Gott |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | quia Dominus Deus tuus ignis consumens est, Deus æmulator. |