Exodus 20:5

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Exodus 20:5

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Summary

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;

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General references

Exodus 20:23

Bible References

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you shall not bow down to their gods nor serve them, nor do as they do, but you shall utterly overthrow them and break their pillars in pieces.

"You shall not make idols for yourselves or erect an image or pillar, and you shall not set up a figured stone in your land to bow down to it, for I am the LORD your God.

that you may not mix with these nations remaining among you or make mention of the names of their gods or swear by them or serve them or bow down to them,

But whenever the judge died, they turned back and were more corrupt than their fathers, going after other gods, serving them and bowing down to them. They did not drop any of their practices or their stubborn ways.

The LORD made a covenant with them and commanded them, "You shall not fear other gods or bow yourselves to them or serve them or sacrifice to them,

After Amaziah came from striking down the Edomites, he brought the gods of the men of Seir and set them up as his gods and worshiped them, making offerings to them.

Then it becomes fuel for a man. He takes a part of it and warms himself; he kindles a fire and bakes bread. Also he makes a god and worships it; he makes it an idol and falls down before it.

And he said to him, "All these I will give you, if you will fall down and worship me."

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(for you shall worship no other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God),

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

for the LORD your God in your midst 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.

They have made me jealous with what is no god; they have provoked me to anger with their idols. So I will make them jealous with those who are no people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

But Joshua said to the people, "You are not able to serve the LORD, for he is a holy God. He is a jealous God; he will not forgive your transgressions or your sins.

For they provoked him to anger with their high places; they moved him to jealousy with their idols.

For jealousy makes a man furious, and he will not spare when he takes revenge.

He put out the form of a hand and took me by a lock of my head, and the Spirit lifted me up between earth and heaven and brought me in visions of God to Jerusalem, to the entrance of the gateway of the inner court that faces north, where was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provokes to jealousy.

And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with some of the vessels of the house of God. And he brought them to the land of Shinar, to the house of his god, and placed the vessels in the treasury of his god.

The LORD is a jealous and avenging God; the LORD is avenging and wrathful; the LORD takes vengeance on his adversaries and keeps wrath for his enemies.

Shall we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?

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keeping steadfast love for thousands,forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children's children, to the third and the fourth generation."

then I will set my face against that man and against his clan and will cut them off from among their people, him and all who follow him in whoring after Molech.

You shall eat the flesh of your sons, and you shall eat the flesh of your daughters.

'The LORD is slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, forgiving iniquity and transgression, but he will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, to the third and the fourth generation.'

Thus says the LORD of hosts, 'I have noted what Amalek did to Israel in opposing them on the way when they came up out of Egypt.

Now there was a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year. And David sought the face of the LORD. And the LORD said, "There is bloodguilt on Saul and on his house, because he put the Gibeonites to death."

"Have you seen how Ahab has humbled himself before me? Because he has humbled himself before me, I will not bring the disaster in his days; but in his son's days I will bring the disaster upon his house."

Still the LORD did not turn from the burning of his great wrath, by which his anger was kindled against Judah, because of all the provocations with which Manasseh had provoked him.

His children are far from safety; they are crushed in the gate, and there is no one to deliver them.

You say, 'God stores up their iniquity for their children.' Let him pay it out to them, that they may know it.

Do not remember against us our former iniquities; let your compassion come speedily to meet us, for we are brought very low.

May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the LORD, and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out!

You will not be joined with them in burial, because you have destroyed your land, you have slain your people."May the offspring of evildoers nevermore be named!

Behold, it is written before me: "I will not keep silent, but I will repay; I will indeed repay into their bosom

"Therefore I still contend with you, declares the LORD, and with your children's children I will contend.

You show steadfast love to thousands, but you repay the guilt of fathers to their children after them, O great and mighty God, whose name is the LORD of hosts,

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and repays to their face those who hate him, by destroying them. He will not be slack with one who hates him. He will repay him to his face.

if I sharpen my flashing sword and my hand takes hold on judgment, I will take vengeance on my adversaries and will repay those who hate me.

Those who hate the LORD would cringe toward him, and their fate would last forever.

but he who fails to find me injures himself; all who hate me love death."

The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify about it that its works are evil.

"If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you.

slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,

For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law; indeed, it cannot.

You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

General references

You shall not make gods of silver to be with me, nor shall you make for yourselves gods of gold.