Exodus 20:5

New English Translation

You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I, the Lord, your God, am a jealous God, responding to the transgression of fathers by dealing with children to the third and fourth generations of those who reject me,

Cross References

2 Samuel 21:1

During David’s reign there was a famine for three consecutive years. So David inquired of the Lord. The Lord said, “It is because of Saul and his bloodstained family, because he murdered the Gibeonites.”

2 Samuel 21:6

let seven of his male descendants be turned over to us, and we will execute them before the Lord in Gibeah of Saul, who was the Lord’s chosen one.” The king replied, “I will turn them over.”

1 Kings 19:10

He answered, “I have been absolutely loyal to the Lord, the sovereign God, even though the Israelites have abandoned the agreement they made with you, torn down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I alone am left and now they want to take my life.”

1 Kings 21:29

“Have you noticed how Ahab shows remorse before me? Because he shows remorse before me, I will not bring disaster on his dynasty during his lifetime, but during the reign of his son.”

2 Kings 17:35

The Lord made an agreement with them and instructed them, “You must not worship other gods. Do not bow down to them, serve them, or offer sacrifices to them.

2 Kings 17:41

These nations are worshiping the Lord and at the same time serving their idols; their sons and grandsons do just as their fathers have done, to this very day.

2 Kings 23:26

Yet the Lord’s great anger against Judah did not subside; he was still infuriated by all the things Manasseh had done.

2 Kings 5:18

May the Lord forgive your servant for this one thing: When my master enters the temple of Rimmon to worship, and he leans on my arm and I bow down in the temple of Rimmon, may the Lord forgive your servant for this.”

2 Kings 5:27

Therefore Naaman’s skin disease will afflict you and your descendants forever!” When Gehazi went out from his presence, his skin was as white as snow.

2 Chronicles 25:14

When Amaziah returned from defeating the Edomites, he brought back the gods of the people of Seir and made them his personal gods. He bowed down before them and offered them sacrifices.

2 Chronicles 7:19

“But if you people ever turn away from me, fail to obey the regulations and rules I instructed you to keep, and decide to serve and worship other gods,

Job 21:19

You may say, ‘God stores up a man’s punishment for his children!’ Instead let him repay the man himself so that he may know it!

Job 5:4

His children are far from safety, and they are crushed at the place where judgment is rendered, nor is there anyone to deliver them.

Psalm 109:14

May his ancestors’ sins be remembered by the Lord! May his mother’s sin not be forgotten!

Psalm 78:58

They made him angry with their pagan shrines, and made him jealous with their idols.

Psalm 79:8

Do not hold us accountable for the sins of earlier generations! Quickly send your compassion our way, for we are in serious trouble!

Psalm 81:15

(May those who hate the Lord cower in fear before him! May they be permanently humiliated!)

Exodus 23:24

“You must not bow down to their gods; you must not serve them or do according to their practices. Instead you must completely overthrow them and smash their standing stones to pieces.

Exodus 34:14

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

Proverbs 8:36

But the one who does not find me brings harm to himself; all who hate me love death.”

Isaiah 44:15

A man uses it to make a fire; he takes some of it and warms himself. Yes, he kindles a fire and bakes bread. Then he makes a god and worships it; he makes an idol and bows down to it.

Isaiah 44:19

No one thinks to himself, nor do they comprehend or understand and say to themselves: ‘I burned half of it in the fire – yes, I baked bread over the coals; I roasted meat and ate it. With the rest of it should I make a disgusting idol? Should I bow down to dry wood?’

Jeremiah 2:9

“So, once more I will state my case against you,” says the Lord. “I will also state it against your children and grandchildren.

Jeremiah 32:18

You show unfailing love to thousands. But you also punish children for the sins of their parents. You are the great and powerful God who is known as the Lord who rules over all.

Ezekiel 18:19

“Yet you say, ‘Why should the son not suffer for his father’s iniquity?’ When the son does what is just and right, and observes all my statutes and carries them out, he will surely live.

Ezekiel 18:2

“What do you mean by quoting this proverb concerning the land of Israel, “‘The fathers eat sour grapes And the children’s teeth become numb?’

Ezekiel 20:7

I said to them, “Each of you must get rid of the detestable idols you keep before you, and do not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt; I am the Lord your God.”

Ezekiel 39:25

“Therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says: Now I will restore the fortunes of Jacob, and I will have mercy on the entire house of Israel. I will be zealous for my holy name.

Ezekiel 8:3

He stretched out the form of a hand and grabbed me by a lock of hair on my head. Then a wind lifted me up between the earth and sky and brought me to Jerusalem by means of divine visions, to the door of the inner gate which faces north where the statue which provokes to jealousy was located.

Daniel 1:2

Now the Lord delivered King Jehoiakim of Judah into his power, along with some of the vessels of the temple of God. He brought them to the land of Babylonia to the temple of his god and put the vessels in the treasury of his god.

Daniel 3:18

But if not, let it be known to you, O king, that we don’t serve your gods, and we will not pay homage to the golden statue that you have erected.”

Leviticus 20:5

I myself will set my face against that man and his clan. I will cut off from the midst of their people both him and all who follow after him in spiritual prostitution, to commit prostitution by worshiping Molech.

Leviticus 26:1

“‘You must not make for yourselves idols, so you must not set up for yourselves a carved image or a pillar, and you must not place a sculpted stone in your land to bow down before it, for I am the Lord your God.

Leviticus 26:29

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

Nahum 1:2

The Lord is a zealous and avenging God; the Lord is avenging and very angry. The Lord takes vengeance against his foes; he sustains his rage against his enemies.

Numbers 14:18

‘The Lord is slow to anger and abounding in loyal love, forgiving iniquity and transgression, but by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children until the third and fourth generations.’

Numbers 14:33

and your children will wander in the wilderness forty years and suffer for your unfaithfulness, until your dead bodies lie finished in the wilderness.

Numbers 25:11

“Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned my anger away from the Israelites, when he manifested such zeal for my sake among them, so that I did not consume the Israelites in my zeal.

Matthew 4:9

And he said to him, “I will give you all these things if you throw yourself to the ground and worship me.”

John 15:18

“If the world hates you, be aware that it hated me first.

John 7:7

The world cannot hate you, but it hates me, because I am testifying about it that its deeds are evil.

John 9:2

His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who committed the sin that caused him to be born blind, this man or his parents?”

Romans 1:30

slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, contrivers of all sorts of evil, disobedient to parents,

Romans 8:7

because the outlook of the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to the law of God, nor is it able to do so.

1 Corinthians 10:22

Or are we trying to provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we really stronger than he is?

Deuteronomy 32:21

They have made me jealous with false gods, enraging me with their worthless gods; so I will make them jealous with a people they do not recognize, with a nation slow to learn I will enrage them.

Deuteronomy 32:41

I will sharpen my lightning-like sword, and my hand will grasp hold of the weapon of judgment; I will execute vengeance on my foes, and 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 I show covenant faithfulness to the thousands who choose me and keep my commandments.

Deuteronomy 5:9

You must not worship or serve them, for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God. I punish the sons, grandsons, and great-grandsons for the sin of the fathers who reject me,

Deuteronomy 6:15

for the Lord your God, who is present among you, is a jealous God and his anger will erupt against you and remove you from the land.

Deuteronomy 7:10

but who pays back those who hate him as they deserve and destroys them. He will not ignore those who hate him but will repay them as they deserve!

James 4:4

Adulterers, do you not know that friendship with the world means hostility toward God? So whoever decides to be the world’s friend makes himself God’s enemy.

Joshua 23:16

If you violate the covenantal laws of the Lord your God which he commanded you to keep, and follow, worship, and bow down to other gods, the Lord will be very angry with you and you will disappear quickly from the good land which he gave to you.”

Joshua 23:7

or associate with these nations that remain near you. You must not invoke or make solemn declarations by the names of their gods! You must not worship or bow down to them!

Joshua 24:19

Joshua warned the people, “You will not keep worshiping the Lord, for he is a holy God. He is a jealous God who will not forgive your rebellion or your sins.

Judges 2:19

When a leader died, the next generation would again act more wickedly than the previous one. They would follow after other gods, worshiping them and bowing down to them. They did not give up their practices or their stubborn ways.