Jealousy

How Nave’s arranged it

• General scriptures concerning So 8:6Proverbs 6:34Proverbs 27:4Ecclesiastes 4:4
• Law concerning, when husband is jealous for his wifeNumbers 5:12–31
• Image ofEzekiel 8:3Ezekiel 8:4
• Attributed to GodExodus 20:5Exodus 34:13Exodus 34:14Numbers 25:11Deuteronomy 29:20Deuteronomy 32:16Deuteronomy 32:211 Kings 14:22Psalms 78:58Psalms 79:5Isaiah 30:1Isaiah 30:2Isaiah 31:1Isaiah 31:3Ezekiel 16:42Ezekiel 23:25Ezekiel 36:5Ezekiel 36:6Ezekiel 38:19Zephaniah 1:18
• See Anthropomorphisms
• An envious spiritRomans 10:19Romans 11:11
• See Emulation
• See Envy
• FIGURATIVE2 Corinthians 11:2
• INSTANCES OF
• Cain, of AbelGenesis 4:5Genesis 4:6Genesis 4:8
• Sarah, of HagarGenesis 16:5

The passages, in Bible order (48)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 16 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Genesis 4:5

   but He had no regard for Cain and his offering. So Cain became very angry, and his countenance fell.

   ›Commentary on Genesis 4:52 voices

   “In the case of Cain his wickedness did not begin when he killed his brother. For even before that God, who knows the heart, had no regard for Cain and his sacrifice. But his baseness was made evident when he killed Abel.

   “Unto Cain - As being unconscious of his sinfulness, and consequently unhumbled, and to his offering, as not being accompanied, as Abel’s was, with faith and a sacrifice for sin, he had not respect - He could not, consistently with his holiness and justice, approve of the one or receive the other. Of the manner in which God testified his approbation we are not informed; it was probably, as in the case of Elijah, by sending down fire from heaven, and consuming the sacrifice.

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2. Genesis 4:6

   “Why are you angry,” said the LORD to Cain, “and why has your countenance fallen?

   ›Commentary on Genesis 4:61 voice

   “SINNERS are not all of the laughing sort—Cain's mind was angry and his heart was heavy. The short life of the vicious is not always a merry one. See, here you have a man who is utterly without God, but he is not without sorrow. His countenance has fallen, his looks are sullen—he is a miserable man. There are many ungodly people still in the world who are not happy in the condition in which they find themselves. The present does not content them and they have no future from which to borrow the light of hope.

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3. Genesis 4:8

   Then Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let us go out to the field.” And while they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel and killed him.

   ›Commentary on Genesis 4:82 voices

   “(Verse 8) And Cain said to his brother Abel. It is understood what the Lord said. Therefore, it is superfluous, what is found in the Samaritan and our volume, Let us go to the field.

   “And Cain talked with Abel,.... Or "said", or "spoke unto" him (l); either what the Lord God said to him in the foregoing verses, as Aben Ezra; or he spoke to him in a kind and friendly manner, and thereby got him to take a walk in the field with him.

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4. Genesis 16:5

   Then Sarai said to Abram, “May the wrong done to me be upon you! I delivered my servant into your arms, and ever since she saw that she was pregnant, she has treated me with contempt. May the LORD judge between you and me.”

   ›Commentary on Genesis 16:52 voices

   “My wrong be upon thee - This appears to be intended as a reproof to Abram, containing an insinuation that it was his fault that she herself had not been a mother, and that now he carried himself more affectionately towards Hagar than he did to her, in consequence of which conduct the slave became petulant. To remove all suspicion of this kind, Abram delivers up Hagar into her hand, who was certainly under his protection while his concubine or secondary wife; but this right given to him by Sarai he restores, to prevent her jealousy and uneasiness.

   “Sarai falls upon Abram, and very unjustly charges him with the injury, suspecting that he countenanced Hagar's insolence: and as one not willing to hear what Abram had to say she rashly appeals to God. The Lord judge between me and thee, as if Abram had refused to right her. When passion is upon the throne, reason is out of doors, and is neither heard nor spoken.

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5. Genesis 37:4–11

   When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of them, they hated him and could not speak a kind word to him.

   ›Commentary on Genesis 37:4–112 voices

   “And Joseph was loved by his father a great deal. And he gave him a multicolored garment as an excellent gift and a proof of the love with which he accompanied him. And this was an incentive to envy for his brothers and a cause of hatred, as the following events will demonstrate. In fact, the Pharisees were inflamed with anger against the beloved, that is, Christ, because he had been clothed by God the Father with a multiform glory.

   “And could not speak peaceably unto him - Does not this imply, in our use of the term, that they were continually quarrelling with him? but this is no meaning of the original: ולא יכלו דברו לשלם velo yachelu dabbero leshalom, they could not speak peace to him, i. e., they would not accost him in a friendly manner. They would not even wish him well. The eastern method of salutation is, Peace be to thee! שלום לך shalom lecha, among the Hebrews, and salam, peace, or salam kebibi, peace to thee my friend, among the Arabs.

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6. Genesis 37:18–28

   Now Joseph’s brothers saw him in the distance, and before he arrived, they plotted to kill him.

   ›Commentary on Genesis 37:18–281 voice

   “And when they saw him afar off they conspired against him - It was not in a heat, or upon a sudden provocation, that they thought to slay him, but from malice propense, and in cold blood.

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7. Exodus 20:5

   You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,

   ›Commentary on Exodus 20:51 voice

   “Jealous God - This shows in a most expressive manner the love of God to this people. He felt for them as the most affectionate husband could do for his spouse; and was jealous for their fidelity, because he willed their invariable happiness. Visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children - This necessarily implies - if the children walk in the steps of their fathers; for no man can be condemned by Divine justice for a crime of which he was never guilty; see Ezekiel

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8. Exodus 34:13

   Rather, you must tear down their altars, smash their sacred stones, and chop down their Asherah poles.

   ›Commentary on Exodus 34:131 voice

   “Moses bowed . . . and worshipped--In the East, people bow the head to royalty, and are silent when it passes by, while in the West, they take off their hats and shout.

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9. Exodus 34:14

   For you must not worship any other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.

   ›Commentary on Exodus 34:142 voices

   “THE PASSION OF JEALOUSY IN MAN is usually exercised in an evil manner, but it is not in itself necessarily sinful. A man may be zealously cautious of his honor, and suspiciously vigilant over another, without deserving blame. All thoughtful persons will agree that there is such a thing as virtuous jealousy.

   “Jealousy is called the rage of a man ( Prov. vi. 34 ), but it is God's holy and just displeasure. Those cannot worship God aright who do not worship him alone.

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10. Numbers 5:12–31

    “Speak to the Israelites and tell them that if any man’s wife goes astray and is unfaithful to him

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    “If a man's wife - This law was given partly to deter wives from adulterous practices, and partly to secure wives against the rage of their hard-hearted husbands, who otherwise might upon mere suspicions destroy them, or at least put them away.

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11. Numbers 25:11

    “Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned My wrath away from the Israelites; for he was zealous for My sake among them, so that I did not consume the Israelites in My zeal.

    ›Commentary on Numbers 25:112 voices

    “Phinehas . . . hath turned my wrath away--This assurance was a signal mark of honor that the stain of blood, instead of defiling, confirmed him in office and that his posterity should continue as long as the national existence of Israel.

    “Hath turned my wrath away - The signal example thus made of a leading offender by Phinehas was accepted by God as an expiation (literally in Num 25:13 “covering;” see the note at the typical significance Lev 1:4), and the exterminating wrath which had gone forth against the whole people was arrested Psa 106:30. The act of Phinehas must be regarded as exceptional.

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12. Deuteronomy 29:20

    The LORD will never be willing to forgive him. Instead, His anger and jealousy will burn against that man, and every curse written in this book will fall upon him. The LORD will blot out his name from under heaven

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13. Deuteronomy 32:16

    They provoked His jealousy with foreign gods; they enraged Him with abominations.

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14. Deuteronomy 32:21

    They have provoked My jealousy by that which is not God; they have enraged Me with their worthless idols. So I will make them jealous by those who are not a people; I will make them angry by a nation without understanding.

    ›Commentary on Deuteronomy 32:212 voices

    “They have moved me to jealousy - This verse contains a very pointed promise of the calling of the Gentiles, in consequence of the rejection of the Jews, threatened Deu 32:19; and to this great event it is applied by St. Paul, Rom 10:19.

    “But God can make the weakest instrument a scourge to the strongest sinner; and those that by sin insult their might Creator are justly insulted by the meanest of their fellow-creatures. This was remarkably fulfilled in the days of the judges, when they were sometimes oppressed by the very Canaanites themselves, whom they had subdued, Judg. iv.

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15. Judges 8:1

    Then the men of Ephraim said to Gideon, “Why have you done this to us? Why did you fail to call us when you went to fight against Midian?” And they contended with him violently.

    ›Commentary on Judges 8:11 voice

    “The success of Gideon’s enterprise mortified the pride of Ephraim, as the chief tribe, seeing that they had played a subordinate part. Compare Jdg 12:1.

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16. Judges 12:1

    Then the men of Ephraim assembled and crossed the Jordan to Zaphon. They said to Jephthah, “Why have you crossed over to fight the Ammonites without calling us to go with you? We will burn your house down with you inside!”

    ›Commentary on Judges 12:12 voices

    “Northward - Over Jordan, where Jephthah was, in the northern part of the land beyond Jordan. And said - Through pride and envy, contending with him as they did before with Gideon. Over - Not over Jordan, for there he was already; but over the borders of the Israelites land beyond Jordan.

    “And the men of Ephraim gathered themselves together,.... Or "cried" (r); got together by a cry or proclamation made: in the Hebrew text it is, "a man of Ephraim"; not a single man, but a body of men, who met together and joined as one man.

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