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;

Bow down

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General references

Exodus 20:23

Bible References

Bow down

You shall not bow down to their gods, nor serve them. And you shall not do according to their works. But you shall surely pull them down, and surely you shall smash their images.

You shall make no idols to yourselves; and you shall not set up for yourselves graven images, or a memorial pillar. And you shall not set up any image of stone in your land in order to bow down to it. For I am Jehovah your God.

so that you do not come among these nations, these 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 to them.

And it happened when the judge was dead, they returned and made themselves more rotten than their fathers in following other gods to serve them, and to bow down to them. They did not cease from their own doings nor from their stubborn way.

And Jehovah had made a covenant and charged them, saying, You shall not fear other gods, nor bow yourselves to them, nor serve them, nor sacrifice to them,

And it happened after Amaziah had come 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 himself before them and burned incense to them.

And it shall be for a man to burn; for he will take some of it and warm himself. Yes, he kindles it and bakes bread; yes, he makes a god and worships; he makes it a graven image and falls down to it.

And he said to Him, All these things I will give You if You will fall down and worship me.

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

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

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.

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.

And Joshua said to the people, You cannot serve Jehovah, for He is a holy God. He is a jealous God. He will not forgive your transgressions nor your sins.

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

For jealousy is the rage of a man; therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.

And He put out the form of a hand, and took me by a lock of my head. And the Spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heavens, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the opening of the inner gate facing north, where there was a seat of the image of jealousy, 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 Jehovah revenges; Jehovah revenges and is a possessor of wrath. Jehovah takes vengeance against His foes, and He keeps wrath against His enemies.

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

Visiting

keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of fathers on the sons, and on the sons of sons, to 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, and all that go lusting after him to commit adultery with Molech, from among their people.

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

Jehovah is long-suffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons to the third and fourth generation.

So says Jehovah of Hosts, I will visit Amalek with what he did to Israel, how he set against him in the way when he came up from Egypt.

And there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year. And David inquired of Jehovah. And Jehovah answered, For Saul, and for his bloody house, because he killed the Gibeonites.

Do you see how Ahab humbles himself before Me? Because he humbles himself before Me, I will not bring the evil in his days. But in his son's days I will bring the evil on his house.

But Jehovah did not turn from the heat of His great wrath, with which His anger was kindled against Judah, because of all the provocations with which Manasseh had provoked Him.

His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, nor is there any to deliver them.

God lays up his iniquity for his children. He repays him, and he knows.

O do not remember against us our former sins; let Your tender mercies meet us quickly; for we are brought very low.

Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered to Jehovah; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.

You shall not be joined with them in burial, because you ruined your land and killed your people; the seed of evildoers shall never be famous.

Behold, it is written before Me; I will not be silent, except I will repay; yea, I will repay into their bosom

Therefore I will contend with you, says Jehovah, and with your son's sons I will enter into judgment.

You show loving-kindness to thousands, and repay the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their sons after them. The great, the mighty God, Jehovah of Hosts, is His name,

Therefore, behold, I send prophets and wise men and scribes to you. And you will kill and crucify some of them. And some of them you will scourge in your synagogues and persecute from city to city;

Of them

And He repays those who hate Him to their face, to destroy them. He will not be slow to repay him who hates Him. He will repay him to his face.

If I sharpen My glittering sword, and if My hand takes hold in judgment, I will give vengeance to My enemies and will reward those that hate Me.

The haters of Jehovah would have been found liars to Him, and their time would have lasted forever.

But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul; all who 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, you know that it hated Me before it hated you.

backbiters, haters of God, insolent, proud, braggarts, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

because the carnal mind is enmity against God, for it is not subject to the Law of God, neither indeed can it be.

Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever desires to be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

General references

You shall not make with Me gods of silver, neither shall you make to you gods of gold.