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Deuteronomy 4:24

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

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ASV

For Jehovah thy God is a devouring fire, a jealous God.

KJV

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

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8 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
כִּ֚יkiforH3588 →
יְהוָ֣הYah.wehYahwehH3068 →
אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ'e.lo.Hei.khaGod yourH430 →
אֵ֥שׁ'esh[is] a fireH784 →
אֹכְלָ֖ה'o.khe.LahconsumingH398 →
ה֑וּאHu'heH1931 →
אֵ֖ל'ela GodH410 →
קַנָּֽא׃ פka.Na'jealousH7067 →

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Hebrews 12:29“For our God is a consuming fire.”Deuteronomy 9:3But understand that today the LORD your God goes across ahead of you as a consuming fire; He will destroy them and subdue them before you. And you will drive them out and annihilate them swiftly, as the LORD has promised you.Nahum 1:6Who can withstand His indignation? Who can endure His burning anger? His wrath is poured out like fire; even rocks are shattered before Him.Exodus 24:17And the sight of the glory of the LORD was like a consuming fire on the mountaintop in the eyes of the Israelites.Isaiah 33:14The sinners in Zion are afraid; trembling grips the ungodly: “Who of us can dwell with a consuming fire? Who of us can dwell with everlasting flames?”Exodus 34:14For you must not worship any other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.Zephaniah 3:8Therefore wait for Me,” declares the LORD, “until the day I rise to testify. For My decision is to gather nations, to assemble kingdoms, to pour out upon them My indignation—all My burning anger. For all the earth will be consumed by the fire of My jealousy.Deuteronomy 6:15For the LORD your God, who is among you, is a jealous God. Otherwise the anger of the LORD your God will be kindled against you, and He will wipe you off the face of the earth.1 Corinthians 10:22Are we trying to provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than He?Exodus 20:5You 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,Zephaniah 1:18Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them on the Day of the LORD’s wrath. The whole earth will be consumed by the fire of His jealousy.” For indeed, He will make a sudden end of all who dwell on the earth.Isaiah 42:8I am the LORD; that is My name! I will not yield My glory to another or My praise to idols.Nahum 1:2The LORD is a jealous and avenging God; the LORD is avenging and full of wrath. The LORD takes vengeance on His foes and reserves wrath for His enemies.Deuteronomy 29:20The 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 heavenPsalms 21:9You will place them in a fiery furnace at the time of Your appearing. In His wrath the LORD will engulf them, and the fire will consume them.Deuteronomy 5:9You 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,Deuteronomy 32:21–22They 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.Jeremiah 21:12–14O house of David, this is what the LORD says: ‘Administer justice every morning, and rescue the victim of robbery from the hand of his oppressor, or My wrath will go forth like fire and burn with no one to extinguish it because of their evil deeds.

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Moses Comes Down from Mount Sinai — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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