Deuteronomy 6:15

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

You will not bow down to them, and you will not serve them, because I [am] Yahweh your God, a jealous God, punishing [the] guilt of [the] parents on the children on [the] third and on [the] fourth [generations] of those hating me,

"You only have I {chosen} of all the clans of the earth. Therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.

Or are we attempting to provoke the Lord to jealousy? We are not stronger than he [is, are we]?

Lest

For their sons and daughters will cause your son to turn away {from following me}, and [so] they will serve other gods, and {the anger of Yahweh would be kindled} against you, and he would quickly destroy you.

And [then] {the anger of Yahweh will be kindled against you}, and he will shut up the heavens, and there shall not be rain, and [so] the ground will not give its produce, and you will perish quickly from the good land that Yahweh [is] giving to you.

So {Yahweh's anger burned} on that day, and he swore an oath, saying,

But they were mocking the messengers of God and despising his words and scoffing at his prophets until the wrath of Yahweh rose against his people until there was no remedy.

For we are brought to an end by your anger, and we hasten [off] by your wrath.

Destroy

For {within seven days} I will send rain upon the earth [for] forty days and forty nights. And I will blot out all the living creatures that I have made from upon the face of the ground."

Why should [the] Egyptians {say}, 'With evil [intent] he brought them out to kill them in the mountains and wipe them from the face of the earth'? Turn from {your fierce anger} and relent concerning the disaster for your people.

This matter became sin in the house of Jeroboam, to make it disappear and to destroy [it] from the surface of the earth.

Look, the eyes of my Lord Yahweh [are] on the kingdom of sin, and I will destroy it from the surface of the earth. However, I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob," {declares} Yahweh.