Parallel Verses

Modern King James verseion

For Jehovah your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.

New American Standard Bible

For the Lord your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

For the Lord your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.

International Standard Version

Indeed, the LORD your God is a consuming fire. He is a jealous God."

A Conservative Version

For LORD thy God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.

American Standard Version

For Jehovah thy God is a devouring fire, a jealous God.

Amplified

For the Lord your God is a consuming fire; He is a jealous (impassioned) God [demanding what is rightfully and uniquely His].

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.

Darby Translation

For Jehovah thy God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.

Julia Smith Translation

For Jehovah thy God he is a consuming fire, a jealous God.

King James 2000

For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God.

Lexham Expanded Bible

for Yahweh your God [is] a devouring fire, a jealous God.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

For the LORD thy God is a consuming fire, and a jealous God.

NET Bible

For the Lord your God is a consuming fire; he is a jealous God.

New Heart English Bible

For the LORD your God is a devouring fire, a jealous God.

The Emphasized Bible

seeing that as for Yahweh thy God, a consuming fire, he is, - a jealous GOD.

Webster

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.

Youngs Literal Translation

for Jehovah thy God is a fire consuming -- a zealous God.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
For the Lord

Usage: 0

אלהים 
'elohiym 
Usage: 2600

is a consuming
אכל 
'akal 
Usage: 809

אשׁ 
'esh 
Usage: 378

קנּא 
Qanna' 
Usage: 6

References

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Watsons

Context Readings

Worshiping The True God

23 Take heed to yourselves, lest you forget the covenant of Jehovah your God, which He made with you, and make you a graven image, a likeness of anything which Jehovah your God has forbidden you. 24 For Jehovah your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God. 25 When you father sons and sons of sons, and when you shall have remained long in the land and have dealt corruptly by making a graven image, the likeness of anything, and shall do evil in the sight of Jehovah your God, to provoke Him to anger,


Cross References

Exodus 24:17

And the sight of the glory of Jehovah was like devouring fire on the top of the mountain in the eyes of the sons of Israel.

Deuteronomy 9:3

Therefore, understand today that Jehovah your God is He who goes over before you. Like a consuming fire, He shall destroy them, and He shall bring them down before your face. So you shall drive them out and destroy them quickly, as Jehovah has said to you.

Hebrews 12:29

for also, "Our God is a consuming fire."

Exodus 20:5

You shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them. For I Jehovah your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons to the third and fourth generation of those that hate me,

Deuteronomy 6:15

for Jehovah your God is a jealous God among you, lest the anger of Jehovah your God be kindled against you and destroy you from off the face of the earth.

Exodus 34:14

For you shall worship no other god. For Jehovah, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God;

Deuteronomy 29:20

Jehovah will not be willing to forgive him, but then the anger of Jehovah and His jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie on him, and Jehovah shall blot out his name from under heavens.

Isaiah 33:14

The sinners in Zion are afraid; terror has surprised profane ones. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? Who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?

Isaiah 42:8

I am Jehovah; that is My name; and My glory I will not give to another, nor My praise to graven images.

Nahum 1:2

God is jealous, and Jehovah revenges; Jehovah revenges and is a possessor of wrath. Jehovah takes vengeance against His foes, and He keeps wrath against His enemies.

Nahum 1:6

Who can stand before His fury? And who can stand up in the heat of His anger? His fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken down because of Him.

Zephaniah 1:18

Their silver nor their gold will not be able to deliver them in the day of Jehovah's wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of His jealousy. For He shall make even a full, yea, a speedy end of all the dwellers in the land.

Deuteronomy 5:9

You shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them. For I Jehovah your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons to the third and fourth generation of those who hate Me,

Deuteronomy 32:16

They provoked Him to jealousy with strange gods; with abominations they provoked Him to anger.

Deuteronomy 32:21-22

They have moved Me to jealousy with a no-god. They have provoked Me to anger with their vanities. And I will move them to jealousy with a no-people. I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

Psalm 21:9

You shall make them as a fiery oven in the time of Your presence; Jehovah will swallow them up in His wrath, and the fire shall devour them.

Psalm 78:58

For they provoked Him to anger with their high places, and moved Him to jealousy with their carved images.

Isaiah 30:27

Behold, the name of Jehovah comes from far, burning with His anger, and uplifting of smoke; His lips are full of fury, and His tongue like a devouring fire.

Isaiah 30:33

For Tophet is ordained of old; yea, for the king it is prepared. He has made it deep and large. He makes great with fire and wood. The breath of Jehovah kindles it, like a torrent of brimstone.

Jeremiah 21:12-14

O house of David, so says Jehovah: Do judgment in the morning, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor, lest My fury go out like fire, and burn so that none can put it out, because of the evil of your doings.

Zephaniah 3:8

Therefore wait for Me, says Jehovah, for the day I rise up to the prey; for My judgment is to gather the nations, for Me to collect the kingdoms, to pour on them My fury, all My hot anger. For all the earth shall be burned up with the fire of My jealousy.

1 Corinthians 10:22

Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than He?

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