Deuteronomy 6:15

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

(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.

Is a jealous

Lest

Psalm 90:7

Destroy

Bible References

Is a jealous

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

You shall not worship them or serve them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and the fourth generations of those who hate Me,

“You only have I chosen among all the families of the earth;
Therefore I will

punish you for all your iniquities.”

Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? We are not stronger than He, are we?

Lest

For they will turn your sons away from following Me to serve other gods; then the anger of the Lord will be kindled against you and He will quickly destroy you.

Or the anger of the Lord will be kindled against you, and He will shut up the heavens so that there will be no rain and the ground will not yield its fruit; and you will perish quickly from the good land which the Lord is giving you.

So the Lord’s anger burned in that day, and He swore, saying,

but they continually mocked the messengers of God, despised His words and scoffed at His prophets, until the wrath of the Lord arose against His people, until there was no remedy.

For we have been consumed by Your anger
And by Your wrath we have been dismayed.

Destroy

For after seven more days, I will send rain on the earth forty days and forty nights; and I will blot out from the face of the land every living thing that I have made.”

Why should the Egyptians speak, saying, ‘With evil intent He brought them out to kill them in the mountains and to destroy them from the face of the earth’? Turn from Your burning anger and change Your mind about doing harm to Your people.

This event became sin to the house of Jeroboam, even to blot it out and destroy it from off the face of the earth.

“Behold, the eyes of the Lord God are on the sinful kingdom,
And I will destroy it from the face of the earth;
Nevertheless, I will not totally destroy the house of Jacob,”
Declares the Lord.