Deuteronomy 4:24

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For the Lord your God is a devouring fire, a jealous God.

Cross References

2 Kings 24:20

Indeed, Jerusalem and Judah so angered the Lord that he expelled them from his presence. Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

Psalm 21:9

You will make them like a fiery furnace when you appear. The Lord will swallow them up in his wrath, and fire will consume them.

Psalm 78:58

For they provoked him to anger with their high places; they moved him to jealousy with their idols.

Exodus 15:7

In the greatness of your majesty you overthrew your adversaries; you sent out your fury, it consumed them like stubble.

Exodus 20:5

You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, punishing children for the iniquity of parents, to the third and the fourth generation of those who reject me,

Exodus 24:17

Now the appearance of the glory of the Lord was like a devouring fire on the top of the mountain in the sight of the people of Israel.

Exodus 33:3

Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey; but I will not go up among you, or I would consume you on the way, for you are a stiff-necked people.”

Exodus 34:14

(for you shall worship no other god, because the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God).

Isaiah 10:17

The light of Israel will become a fire, and his Holy One a flame; and it will burn and devour his thorns and briers in one day.

Isaiah 30:27

See, the name of the Lord comes from far away, burning with his anger, and in thick rising smoke; his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue is like a devouring fire;

Isaiah 30:33

For his burning place has long been prepared; truly it is made ready for the king, its pyre made deep and wide, with fire and wood in abundance; the breath of the Lord, like a stream of sulfur, kindles it.

Isaiah 33:14

The sinners in Zion are afraid; trembling has seized the godless: “Who among us can live with the devouring fire? Who among us can live with everlasting flames?”

Isaiah 42:8

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

Amos 5:6

Seek the Lord and live, or he will break out against the house of Joseph like fire, and it will devour Bethel, with no one to quench it.

Nahum 1:2

A jealous and avenging God is the Lord, the Lord is avenging and wrathful; the Lord takes vengeance on his adversaries and rages against his enemies.

Nahum 1:6

Who can stand before his indignation? Who can endure the heat of his anger? His wrath is poured out like fire, and by him the rocks are broken in pieces.

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 the whole earth shall be consumed; for a full, a terrible end he will make of all the inhabitants of the earth.

Zephaniah 3:8

Therefore wait for me, says the Lord, for the day when I arise as a witness. For my decision is to gather nations, to assemble kingdoms, to pour out upon them my indignation, all the heat of my anger; for in the fire of my passion all the earth shall be consumed.

Numbers 25:11

“Phinehas son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, has turned back my wrath from the Israelites by manifesting such zeal among them on my behalf that in my jealousy I did not consume the Israelites.

1 Corinthians 10:22

Or are we provoking the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?

Deuteronomy 29:20

the Lord will be unwilling to pardon them, for the Lord's anger and passion will smoke against them. All the curses written in this book will descend on them, and the Lord will blot out their names from under heaven.

Deuteronomy 32:16

They made him jealous with strange gods, with abhorrent things they provoked him.

Deuteronomy 5:9

You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, punishing children for the iniquity of parents, to the third and fourth generation of those who reject me,

Deuteronomy 6:15

because the Lord your God, who is present with you, is a jealous God. The anger of the Lord your God would be kindled against you and he would destroy you from the face of the earth.

Deuteronomy 9:3

Know then today that the Lord your God is the one who crosses over before you as a devouring fire; he will defeat them and subdue them before you, so that you may dispossess and destroy them quickly, as the Lord has promised you.

Hebrews 12:29

for indeed our God is a consuming fire.