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

Bow down

Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works; but thou shalt utterly overthrow them and completely break down their images.

Ye shall make no idols for yourselves nor graven image, neither shall you raise up a title, neither shall ye place any painted stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I AM your God.

that ye not enter in among these Gentiles that remain among you; neither make mention of the name of their gods, nor cause to swear by them, neither serve them, nor bow yourselves unto them,

But when the judge was dead, then they would return, and corrupt themselves more than their fathers in following other gods to serve them and to bow down unto them; they did not diminish from their own doings nor from their stubborn way.

with whom the LORD had made a covenant and charged them, saying, Ye shall not fear other gods, nor worship them, nor serve them, nor sacrifice to them,

Now after Amaziah came back from the slaughter of the Edomites, he brought the gods of the sons of Seir and set them up to be his gods and bowed down before them and burned incense unto them.

The man shall then use of it for firewood; for he will take thereof and warm himself; he will kindle it and bake bread; he will also make a god and worship it; he will fabricate an idol and shall kneel down before it.

and said unto him, All these things I will give thee if thou wilt fall down and worship me.

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for thou shalt worship no other god; for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.

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

(for the LORD thy God is a jealous God among you) lest peradventure the anger of the LORD thy God be kindled against thee and destroy thee from off the face of the earth.

They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities; and I also will move them to jealousy with those who are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with foolish Gentiles.

Then Joshua said unto the people, Ye cannot serve the LORD, for he is a holy God; he is a jealous God; he will not allow your rebellions nor your sins.

For they provoked him to anger with their high places and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.

For the jealous rage of a man will not spare in the day of vengeance.

And that likeness put forth his hand and took me by the locks of my head; and the Spirit lifted me up between the heaven and the earth and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the inner gate that looks toward the north where the habitation of the image of jealousy was, which provokes to jealousy.

And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand with part of the vessels of the house of God which he carried into the land of Shinar to the house of his god, and he brought the vessels into the treasure house of his god.

God is jealous, and the LORD avenges; the LORD avenges and is furious; the LORD will take vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserves wrath for his enemies.

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

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keeping mercy for thousands, letting go of iniquity and rebellion and sin; and by no means will I absolve the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons and upon the sons' sons, unto the third and to the fourth generation.

then I will set my face against that man and against his family and will cut him off with all those that fornicated after him, prostituting themselves after Molech.

And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat.

The LORD is longsuffering and of great mercy, letting go of iniquity and transgression and absolving, but by no means absolving the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons unto the third and fourth generations.

Thus hath said the LORD of the hosts, I remember that which Amalek did to Israel, how he laid wait for him in the way when he came up from Egypt.

Then there was a famine in the days of David for three consecutive years, and David enquired of the LORD. And the LORD answered, It is because of Saul and because of his bloody house, because he slew the Gibeonites.

Seest thou how Ahab has humbled himself before me? Because he has humbled himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his days, but in his son's days I will bring the evil upon his house.

Even with all this the LORD did not turn from the fierceness of his great wrath, with which his anger was kindled against Judah, because of all the provocations with which Manasseh had provoked him to wrath.

His sons are far from saving health, and they shall be crushed in the gate, and there shall be no one to deliver them.

God shall lay up his violence for their sons; and he will reward him so that he shall know it.

O remember not against us former iniquities; let thy tender mercies speedily meet us on the way, for we are very poor.

Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the LORD, and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.

Thou shalt not be numbered with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land and slain thy people; the seed of evildoers shall not be forever.

Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence but will recompense, even recompense into their bosom,

Therefore I will yet enter into judgment with you, saith the LORD, and I will plead with your children's children.

that thou dost show mercy in thousands and recompense the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their sons after them, the Great, the Mighty God, the LORD of the hosts, is his name,

Therefore, behold, I send unto you prophets and wise men and scribes, and some of them ye shall kill and crucify, and some of them ye shall scourge in your synagogues and persecute them from city to city,

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and repays him that hates him to his face, to destroy him; he will not be slack to him that hates him; he will repay him to his face.

if I whet the resplendence of my sword and my hand takes hold on judgment, I will render vengeance to my enemies and will recompense those that hate me.

The haters of the LORD would have submitted themselves unto him, and their time would endure for ever.

But he that sins against me wrongs his own soul; all those that hate me love death.

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

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

backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

because the prudence of the flesh is enmity against God; for it does not subject itself to the law of God, neither indeed can it.

Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore that desires to be a friend of the world, makes himself the enemy of God.

General references

Ye shall not make with me gods of silver, neither shall ye make unto you gods of gold.