You must not bow down to them or worship them, for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God who will not tolerate your affection for any other gods. I lay the sins of the parents upon their children; the entire family is affected—even children in the third and fourth generations of those who reject me.
Commentaries
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Compare Exodus 20 and notes.
Moses here adopts the Ten Words as a ground from which he may proceed to reprove, warn, and exhort; and repeats…
Charles Ellicott
CharlesEllicott
Visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children. —There are no sins which so surely entail penal consequences upon…
John Calvin
JohnCalvin
Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them. Idolaters in vain try to evade this second point with their foolish quibbles; as among the Papi…
John Gill
JohnGill
(See Gill on Deuteronomy 5:6).
Matthew Henry
MatthewHenry
There is some variation here from Exodus 20, similar to the variation between the Lord's Prayer in Matthew 6 and Luke 11. It is more necessary that…
Albert Barnes
AlbertBarnes