Exodus 20:5

Modern English Version

You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generation of them who hate Me,

Cross References

2 Samuel 21:1

Now there was a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year; and David called upon the Lord. The Lord said, “There is blood guilt upon Saul and upon his house because he put the Gibeonites to death.”

2 Samuel 21:6

let seven of his male descendants be handed over to us, and we will hang them before the Lord at Gibeah of Saul, the chosen one of the Lord.” The king said, “I will hand them over.”

1 Kings 19:10

And he said, “I have been very zealous for the Lord, Lord of Hosts, for the Israelites have forsaken Your covenant, thrown down Your altars, and killed Your prophets with the sword, and I alone am left, and they seek to take my life.”

1 Kings 21:29

“See how Ahab humbles himself before Me? Because he humbles himself before Me, I will not bring the disaster during his lifetime, but during his son’s lifetime I will bring the disaster on his household.”

2 Kings 17:35

The Lord had made a covenant and commanded them, saying, “You shall not fear other gods, nor bow yourselves to them. You shall not serve them or sacrifice to them.

2 Kings 17:41

So these nations feared the Lord and were serving their carved images, both their children and their grandchildren, as their fathers did, and so they are doing to this day.

2 Kings 23:26

However, the Lord did not turn from the fierceness of His great wrath, by which His anger was kindled against Judah, because of all the provocations with which Manasseh had provoked Him.

2 Kings 5:18

But may the Lord pardon your servant on one account: When my master enters the house of Rimmon to worship, and he leans on my hand, and I bow down in the house of Rimmon, when I do bow down in the house of Rimmon, may the Lord pardon your servant on this one account.”

2 Kings 5:27

The leprosy of Naaman will cling to you and to your descendants forever.” So he went out from his presence, leprous like snow.

2 Chronicles 25:14

And it happened after Amaziah came back from striking down the Edomites, he brought back the gods of the people from Seir and set them up as gods for himself. He worshipped them and gave them sacrifices.

2 Chronicles 7:19

“But if the people turn aside and abandon My statutes and commandments that I have given to you, and you walk after and serve other gods and worship them,

Job 21:19

God stores up their iniquity for their children; let Him reward the people themselves, and they will know it.

Job 5:4

May his children be far from safety, and may they be crushed in the gate without a deliverer;

Psalm 109:14

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

Psalm 78:58

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

Psalm 79:8

Do not remember against us the iniquities of our forefathers; let Your tender mercies come speedily to us, for we have been brought very low.

Psalm 81:15

Those who hate the Lord would pretend submission before Him, but their punishment would endure forever.

Exodus 23:24

You must not bow down to their gods, or serve them, or do according to their practices, but you shall utterly overthrow them and break down their images in pieces.

Exodus 34:14

(for you shall not worship any other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God),

Proverbs 8:36

but he who sins against me wrongs his own soul; all those who hate me love death.”

Isaiah 44:15

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

Isaiah 44:19

No one considers in his heart, nor is there knowledge nor understanding to say, “I have burned part of it in the fire; I also have baked bread on the coals; I have roasted meat and eaten it; and shall I make the rest into an abomination? Shall I fall down to a block of wood?”

Jeremiah 2:9

Therefore I will yet contend with you, says the Lord, and with your sons’ sons I will contend.

Jeremiah 32:18

You show lovingkindness to thousands, and recompense the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them, O great and mighty God. The Lord of Hosts is His name,

Ezekiel 18:19

Yet you say, “Why should the son not bear the punishment of the iniquity of the father?” When the son has done what is lawful and right, and has kept all My statutes, and has done them, he shall surely live.

Ezekiel 18:2

What do you mean in using this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying: “The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge”?

Ezekiel 20:7

then I said to them: Cast away, each of you, the abominations of his eyes, and do not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.

Ezekiel 39:25

Therefore thus says the Lord God: Now I will restore the fortunes of Jacob and have mercy on the whole house of Israel and will be jealous for My holy name.

Ezekiel 8:3

He stretched 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 entrance of the north gate of the inner court, where the seat of the image of jealousy was, which provokes to jealousy.

Daniel 1:2

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

Daniel 3:18

But even if He does not, let it be known to you, O king, that we will not serve your gods, nor worship the golden image which you have set up.”

Leviticus 20:5

then I will set My face against that man and against his family; and I will cut them off from their people, both him and those who follow after him as whores after Molech.

Leviticus 26:1

You shall not make for yourselves idols; neither set up a carved image nor a standing stone, nor shall you set up any sculpted stone in your land to bow down to it, for I am the Lord your God.

Leviticus 26:29

You shall eat the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters.

Nahum 1:2

The Lord is a jealous and avenging God; the Lord avenges and is furious. The Lord takes vengeance on His enemies, and He reserves it for His adversaries;

Numbers 14:18

‘The Lord is slow to anger and abounding in mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, but He will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation.’

Numbers 14:33

Your children will be shepherds in the wilderness forty years, and they will suffer for your fornications, until your corpses are in the wilderness.

Numbers 25:11

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

Matthew 4:9

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

John 15:18

“If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you.

John 7:7

The world cannot hate you. But it hates Me, because I testify concerning it, that its works are evil.

John 9:2

His disciples asked Him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”

Romans 1:30

slanderers, God-haters, insolent, proud, boastful, inventors of evil things, and disobedient toward parents,

Romans 8:7

for the carnal mind is hostile toward God, for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can it be,

1 Corinthians 10:22

Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than He?

Deuteronomy 32:21

They have made Me jealous with that which is not God; they have provoked Me to anger with their empty things. And I will make them jealous of those who are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

Deuteronomy 32:41

if I sharpen My flashing sword and My hand takes hold on judgment, I will render vengeance on My enemies and will repay those who hate Me.

Deuteronomy 4:24

For the Lord your God is a consuming fire. He is a jealous God.

Deuteronomy 5:10

but showing mercy to thousands of them who love Me and keep My commandments.

Deuteronomy 5:9

you shall not bow down to them, nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,

Deuteronomy 6:15

(for the Lord your God is a jealous God among you). Otherwise the anger of the Lord your God will be inflamed against you and destroy you from off the face of the earth.

Deuteronomy 7:10

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

James 4:4

You adulterers and adulteresses, do you not know that the friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

Joshua 23:16

If you break the covenant of the Lord your God that He commanded you, and go and serve other gods and worship them, the anger of the Lord will burn against you, and you will quickly perish from the good land that He gave you.”

Joshua 23:7

Do not assimilate with these peoples remaining among you. Do not invoke the names of their gods, nor swear by, serve, or worship them.

Joshua 24:19

Then Joshua said to the people, “You are not able to serve the Lord, for He is a holy God. He is a jealous God, and He will not forgive your transgressions or your sins.

Judges 2:19

When the judge died, the people turned back and acted more wickedly than their fathers, pursuing other gods to serve and worship them. They would not give up their practices and obstinate ways.