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you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me,
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God's Protective Jealousy
Commentators explain that God's "jealousy" is not like petty human envy. Rather, it is about His fierce protection of His own honor and His exclusive right to be worshipped. As one scholar notes, idolatry is like spiritual adultery, a profound betrayal of the covenant relationship God has with His people, and He will not share His glory with a created image.
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Exodus
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18th Century
Presbyterian
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…
19th Century
Anglican
Nor serve them. —The idolatry of the ancient world was, practically, not a mere worship of celestial beings through material repre…
Baptist
Here we are forbidden to worship God under any likeness whatsoever. The first command forbids the worship of another God; the second strictly forbi…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
You shall not bow down yourself to them Perform any worship to them, show any reverence of them by any gesture of th…
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 …
