Deuteronomy 6 · Verse 15

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.
Deuteronomy 6:15, King James Version

Deuteronomy 6:15 in other translations

BSBFor 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.
WEBfor the LORD your God among you is a jealous God, lest the anger of the LORD your God be kindled against you, and he destroy you from off the face of the earth.
ASVfor 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.
YLTfor 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.
DARBYfor Jehovah thy God is a jealous God in thy midst; lest the anger of Jehovah thy God be kindled against thee, and he destroy thee from the face of the earth.
BBEFor the Lord your God who is with you is a God who will not let his honour be given to another; or the wrath of the Lord will be burning against you, causing your destruction from the face of the earth.
Webster(For the LORD thy God is a jealous God among you) lest the anger of the LORD thy God should be kindled against thee, and destroy thee from off the face of the earth.

What does Deuteronomy 6:15 mean?

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 15 A jealous God - Jehovah has betrothed you to himself as a bride is to her husband. Do not be unfaithful, else that love wherewith he has now distinguished you shall assume the form of jealousy, and so divorce and consume you.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Deuteronomy 6:6-16

Here are means for maintaining and keeping up religion in our hearts and houses. 1. Meditation. God's words must be laid up in our hearts, that our thoughts may be daily employed about them. 2. The religious education of children. Often repeat these things to them. Be careful and exact in teaching thy children. Teach these truths to all who are any way under thy care. 3. Pious discourse. Thou shalt talk of these…

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Deuteronomy 6:15 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

כִּ֣יkiforH3588
אֵ֥ל'el[is] a GodH410
קַנָּ֛אka.Na'jealousH7067
יְהוָ֥הYah.wehYahwehH3068
אֱלֹהֶ֖יךָ'e.lo.Hei.khaGod yourH430
בְּקִרְבֶּ֑ךָbe.kir.Be.chain midst yourH7130
פֶּן\־pen-lestH6435
יֶ֠חֱרֶהYe.che.rehit should burnH2734
אַף\־'af-[the] anger ofH639
יְהוָ֤הYah.wehYahwehH3068
אֱלֹהֶ֙יךָ֙'e.lo.Hei.khaGod yourH430
בָּ֔ךְBakhon you
וְהִשְׁמִ֣ידְךָ֔ve.hish.Mi.de.khaand he will destroy youH8045
מֵעַ֖לme.'Alfrom onH5921
פְּנֵ֥יpe.Nei[the] surface ofH6440
הָאֲדָמָֽה\׃\ \סha.'a.da.Mahthe groundH127

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Deuteronomy 6:15

  • Deuteronomy 4:24

    For the Lord thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God.

  • 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;

  • Deuteronomy 11:17

    And then the Lord’s wrath be kindled against you, and he shut up the heaven, that there be no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit; and lest ye perish quickly from off the good land which the Lord giveth you.

  • Deuteronomy 7:4

    For they will turn away thy son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of the Lord be kindled against you, and destroy thee suddenly.

  • Exodus 32:12

    Wherefore should the Egyptians speak, and say, For mischief did he bring them out, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against thy people.

  • Psalms 90:11

    Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath.

  • Amos 3:2

    You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.

  • 1 Kings 13:34

    And this thing became sin unto the house of Jeroboam, even to cut it off, and to destroy it from off the face of the earth.

  • Numbers 32:10-15

    And the Lord’s anger was kindled the same time, and he sware, saying, Surely none of the men that came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob; because they have not wholly followed me: Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite, and Joshua the son of Nun: for they have wholly followed the Lord. And the Lord’s anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation, that had done evil in the sight of the Lord, was consumed. …

  • Psalms 90:7

    For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.

  • 2 Chronicles 36:16

    But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the Lord arose against his people, till there was no remedy.

  • Amos 9:8

    Behold, the eyes of the Lord God are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth; saving that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, saith the Lord.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
is a jealous.
4:24; Ex 20:5; Am 3:2; 1Co 10:22
lest.
7:4; 11:17; Nu 32:10-15; 2Ch 36:16; Ps 90:7,11
destroy.
Ge 7:4; Ex 32:12; 1Ki 13:34; Am 9:8

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Context

  • Deuteronomy 6:14

    Ye shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the people which are round about you;

  • 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.

  • Deuteronomy 6:16

    Ye shall not tempt the Lord your God, as ye tempted him in Massah.

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Deuteronomy 6:15 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Porque el Dios celoso, Jehová tu Dios, en medio de ti está; porque no se inflame el furor de Jehová tu Dios contra ti, y te destruya de sobre la haz de la tierra.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
car l’ Éternel, ton Dieu, qui est au milieu de toi, est un ✶Dieu jaloux; de peur que la colère de l’ Éternel, ton Dieu, ne s’embrase contre toi, et qu’il ne te détruise de dessus la face de la terre.
German
Elberfelder 1871
denn ein eifernder Gott ist Jehova, dein Gott, in deiner Mitte: damit nicht der Zorn Jehovas, deines Gottes, wider dich entbrenne, und er dich vertilge vom Erdboden hinweg.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
quoniam Deus æmulator Dominus Deus tuus in medio tui: nequando irascatur furor Domini Dei tui contra te, et auferat te de superficie terræ.