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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The Hebrew name which is rendered in our King James Version as the Ten Commandments occurs in Exodus 34:28; Deuteronomy 4:13; and Deuter…
Charles Ellicott
CharlesEllicott
Nor serve them. —The idolatry of the ancient world was, practically, not a mere worship of celestial beings through material repre…
Charles Spurgeon
CharlesSpurgeon
Here we are forbidden to worship God under any likeness whatsoever. The first command forbids the worship of another God; the second strictly forbi…
John Gill
JohnGill
You shall not bow down yourself to them
Perform any worship to them, show any reverence of them by any gesture of th…
Matthew Henry
MatthewHenry
The first four of the Ten Commandments, commonly called the First Table, tell us our duty to God. It was fitting that these should be put …
Albert Barnes
AlbertBarnes