Deuteronomy 4:24

24 For 1the LORD your God is a consuming fire, 2a jealous God.

Deuteronomy 4:24 In-Context

22 For I must die in this land; I must not go over the Jordan. But you shall go over and take possession of that good land.
23 Take care, lest you forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which he made with you, and make a carved image, the form of anything that the LORD your God has forbidden you.
24 For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.
25 "When you father children and children's children, and have grown old in the land, if you act corruptly by making a carved image in the form of anything, and by doing what is evil in the sight of the LORD your God, so as to provoke him to anger,
26 I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that you will soon utterly perish from the land that you are going over the Jordan to possess. You will not live long in it, but will be utterly destroyed.

Cross References 2

  • 1. Exodus 24:17; Cited Hebrews 12:29; [Deuteronomy 9:3; Isaiah 10:16-18; Isaiah 29:6; Isaiah 30:27, 30; Zephaniah 1:18]
  • 2. [Isaiah 42:8]; See Exodus 20:5
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