Deuteronomy 4:24

New American Bible - revised edition

For the Lord, your God, is a consuming fire, a jealous God. God’s Fidelity and Love.

Cross References

2 Kings 24:20

This befell Jerusalem and Judah because the Lord was so angry that he cast them out of his sight. Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

Psalm 21:9

Your hand will find all your enemies; your right hand will find your foes!

Psalm 78:58

They enraged him with their high places, and with their idols provoked him to jealous anger.

Exodus 15:7

In your great majesty you overthrew your adversaries; you loosed your wrath to consume them like stubble.

Exodus 20:5

you shall not bow down before them or serve them. For I, the Lord, your God, am a jealous God, inflicting punishment for their ancestors’ wickedness on the children of those who hate me, down to the third and fourth generation;

Exodus 24:17

To the Israelites the glory of the Lord was seen as a consuming fire on the top of the mountain.

Exodus 33:3

to a land flowing with milk and honey. But I myself will not go up in your company, because you are a stiff-necked people; otherwise I might consume you on the way.

Exodus 34:14

You shall not bow down to any other god, for the Lord—“Jealous” his name—is a jealous God.

Isaiah 10:17

The Light of Israel will become a fire, the Holy One, a flame, That burns and consumes its briers and its thorns in a single day.

Isaiah 30:27

See, the name of the Lord is coming from afar, burning with anger, heavy with threat, His lips filled with fury, tongue like a consuming fire,

Isaiah 30:33

For his tophet has long been ready, truly it is prepared for the king; His firepit made both deep and wide, with fire and firewood in abundance, And the breath of the Lord, like a stream of sulfur, setting it afire.

Isaiah 33:14

In Zion sinners are in dread, trembling grips the impious: “Who of us can live with consuming fire? who of us can live with everlasting flames?”

Isaiah 42:8

I am the Lord, Lord is my name; my glory I give to no other, nor my praise to idols.

Amos 5:6

Seek the Lord, that you may live, lest he flare up against the house of Joseph like a fire that shall consume the house of Israel, with no one to quench it.

Nahum 1:2

A jealous and avenging God is the Lord, an avenger is the Lord, full of wrath; The Lord takes vengeance on his adversaries, and rages against his enemies;

Nahum 1:6

Before his wrath, who can stand firm, and who can face his blazing anger? His fury is poured out like fire, and boulders break apart before him.

Zephaniah 1:18

Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to save them. On the day of the Lord’s wrath, in the fire of his passion, all the earth will be consumed. For he will make an end, yes, a sudden end, of all who live on the earth.

Zephaniah 3:8

Therefore, wait for me—oracle of the Lord— until the day when I arise as accuser; For it is my decision to gather nations, to assemble kingdoms, In order to pour out upon them my wrath, all my blazing anger; For in the fire of my passion all the earth will be consumed.

Numbers 25:11

Phinehas, son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, has turned my anger from the Israelites by his being as jealous among them as I am; that is why I did not put an end to the Israelites in my jealousy.

1 Corinthians 10:22

Or are we provoking the Lord to jealous anger? Are we stronger than he? Seek the Good of Others.

Deuteronomy 29:20

The Lord will single them out from all the tribes of Israel for doom, in keeping with all the curses of the covenant written in this book of the law. Punishment for Idolatry.

Deuteronomy 32:16

With strange gods they incited him, with abominations provoked him to anger.

Deuteronomy 5:9

you shall not bow down before them or serve them. For I, the Lord, your God, am a jealous God, bringing punishment for their parents’ wickedness on the children of those who hate me, down to the third and fourth generation,

Deuteronomy 6:15

for the Lord, your God who is in your midst, is a passionate God—lest the anger of the Lord, your God, flare up against you and he destroy you from upon the land.

Deuteronomy 9:3

Know, then, today that it is the Lord, your God, who will cross over before you as a consuming fire; he it is who will destroy them and subdue them before you, so that you can dispossess and remove them quickly, as the Lord promised you.

Hebrews 12:29

For our God is a consuming fire.