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New Life Version

Deuteronomy 4:24

For the Lord your God is an all-burning fire, a jealous God.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Fire;   God Continued...;   Obedience;   Scofield Reference Index - Inspiration;   Thompson Chain Reference - Divine;   God;   Jealousy;   The Topic Concordance - Alertness;   God;   Idolatry;   Last Days;   Perishing;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Fire;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Seraphim;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Jealousy;   Yahweh;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Forgiveness;   Israel;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Hutchinsonians;   Polytheism;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Cloud;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Baptism of Fire;   Covenant;   Deuteronomy, the Book of;   Jealousy;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Deuteronomy;   Sin;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Fire;   Metaphor;   Quotations (2);   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Fire;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Fire;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Anger;   Burning Bush;   Ethics;   Fire;   Judaism;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
For the LORD your God is a devouring fire, a jealous God.
King James Version
For the Lord thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God.
Lexham English Bible
for Yahweh your God is a devouring fire, a jealous God.
English Standard Version
For the Lord your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.
New Century Version
The Lord your God is a jealous God, like a fire that burns things up.
New English Translation
For the Lord your God is a consuming fire; he is a jealous God.
Amplified Bible
"For the LORD your God is a consuming fire; He is a jealous (impassioned) God [demanding what is rightfully and uniquely His].
New American Standard Bible
"For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.
Geneva Bible (1587)
For the Lorde thy God is a consuming fire, and a ielous God.
Legacy Standard Bible
For Yahweh your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.
Contemporary English Version
The Lord will be angry if you worship other gods, and he can be like a fire destroying everything in its path.
Complete Jewish Bible
For Adonai your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.
Darby Translation
For Jehovah thy God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.
Easy-to-Read Version
because the Lord your God hates for his people to worship other gods. And he can be like a fire that destroys!
George Lamsa Translation
For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, a zealous God.
Good News Translation
because the Lord your God is like a flaming fire; he tolerates no rivals.
Christian Standard Bible®
For the Lord your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.
Literal Translation
For Jehovah your God is a consuming fire; He is a jealous God.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For the LORDE thy God is a consumynge fyre and a gelous God.
American Standard Version
For Jehovah thy God is a devouring fire, a jealous God.
Bible in Basic English
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.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
For the Lorde thy God, is a consumyng fire, and a ielous God.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
For the LORD thy God is a devouring fire, a jealous God.
King James Version (1611)
For the Lord thy God is a consuming fire, euen a iealous God.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
For the Lord thy God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.
English Revised Version
For the LORD thy God is a devouring fire, a jealous God.
Berean Standard Bible
For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For thi Lord God is fier wastynge; `God, a feruent louyere.
Young's Literal Translation
for Jehovah thy God is a fire consuming -- a zealous God.
Update Bible Version
For Yahweh your God is a devouring fire, a jealous God.
Webster's Bible Translation
For the LORD thy God [is] a consuming fire, [even] a jealous God.
World English Bible
For Yahweh your God is a devouring fire, a jealous God.
New King James Version
For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.
New Living Translation
The Lord your God is a devouring fire; he is a jealous God.
New Revised Standard
For the Lord your God is a devouring fire, a jealous God.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
seeing that as for Yahweh thy God, a consuming fire, he is, - a jealous GOD.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Because the Lord thy God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.
Revised Standard Version
For the LORD your God is a devouring fire, a jealous God.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.

Contextual Overview

1 "Now, O Israel, listen to the Laws I am teaching you. Do them so that you may live and go in to take the land for your own that the Lord, the God of your fathers, is giving you. 2 Do not add to the Word that I tell you, and do not take away from it. Keep the Laws of the Lord your God which I tell you. 3 Your eyes saw what the Lord did because of Baal-peor. The Lord your God destroyed from among you all the men who followed the Baal of Peor. 4 But you who stayed faithful to the Lord your God are all alive today. 5 See, I have taught you Laws just as the Lord my God told me. So you are to live by them in the land you are going to have for your own. 6 Keep them and do them. For this will show how wise and understanding you are. The people who will hear all these Laws will say, ‘For sure this great nation is a wise and understanding people.' 7 For what great nation is there that has a god so near as the Lord our God is to us every time we call to Him? 8 What great nation is there that has laws as right as this whole Law which I am giving you today? 9 "Only be careful. Keep watch over your life. Or you might forget the things you have seen. Do not let them leave your heart for the rest of your life. But teach them to your children and to your grandchildren. 10 Remember the day you stood before the Lord your God at Mount Sinai. The Lord said to me, ‘Gather the people together before Me, so I may let them hear My words. Then they may learn to fear Me all the days they live on the earth, and they may teach their children.'

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

thy God: Deuteronomy 9:3, Deuteronomy 32:22, Exodus 24:17, Psalms 21:9, Isaiah 30:33, Isaiah 33:14, Jeremiah 21:12-14, Nahum 1:6, Zephaniah 1:18, Hebrews 12:29

a jealous God: Deuteronomy 6:15, Deuteronomy 29:20, Deuteronomy 32:16, Deuteronomy 32:21, Exodus 20:5, Exodus 34:14, Psalms 78:58, Isaiah 42:8, Nahum 1:2, Zephaniah 3:8, 1 Corinthians 10:22

Reciprocal: Numbers 25:11 - that I Deuteronomy 4:33 - General 1 Kings 14:22 - they provoked 2 Kings 13:3 - and he delivered Isaiah 46:10 - the end Ezekiel 1:27 - the appearance of fire Ezekiel 8:3 - provoketh Ezekiel 22:21 - and blow Ezekiel 36:5 - Surely 2 Corinthians 6:16 - what

Cross-References

Genesis 4:15
So the Lord said to him, "Whoever kills Cain will be punished by Me seven times worse." And the Lord put a mark on Cain so that any one who found him would not kill him.
Matthew 18:22
Jesus said to him, "I tell you, not seven times but seventy times seven!

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For the Lord thy God is a consuming fire,.... To his enemies; his wrath is like fire to burn up and destroy all that oppose him and break his commands, and especially idolaters; whose sin of all others is the most provoking to him, since it strikes at his being, his honour and glory; wherefore it follows,

even a jealous God; who is jealous of his honour in matters of worship, and will not suffer his glory to be given to another, nor his praise to graven images, without resenting it or punishing for it.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Deuteronomy 4:24. Thy God is a consuming fire — They had seen him on the mount as an unconsuming fire, while appearing to Moses, and giving the law; and they had seen him as a consuming fire in the case of Korah, Dathan, Abiram, and their company. They had, therefore, every good to expect from his approbation, and every evil to dread from his displeasure.


 
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