Exodus 20:5
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5 You shall not bow down to them or serve 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(A)
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Numbers 14:18
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18 ‘The Lord is slow to anger
and abounding in steadfast love,
forgiving iniquity and transgression,
but by no means clearing the guilty,
visiting the iniquity of the parents
upon the children
to the third and the fourth generation.’(A)
Deuteronomy 5:9
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9 You shall not bow down to them or serve 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(A)
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Deuteronomy 4:24
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24 For the Lord your God is a devouring fire, a jealous God.(A)
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Exodus 34:14
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14 for you shall worship no other god, because the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.(A)
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Isaiah 65:6-7
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6 See, it is written before me:
I will not keep silent, but I will repay;
I will indeed repay into their laps(A)
7 their[a] iniquities and their[b] ancestors’ iniquities together,
says the Lord;
because they offered incense on the mountains
and reviled me on the hills,
I will measure into their laps
full payment for their actions.(B)
Joshua 24:19
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19 But Joshua said to the people, “You cannot serve the Lord, for he is a holy God. He is a jealous God; he will not forgive your transgressions or your sins.(A)
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Psalm 109:14
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14 May the iniquity of his father[a] be remembered before the Lord,
and do not let the sin of his mother be blotted out.(A)
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- 109.14 Cn: Heb fathers
Joshua 23:7
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7 so that you may not be mixed with these nations left here among you, or make mention of the names of their gods, or swear by them, or serve them, or bow yourselves down to them,(A)
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Deuteronomy 6:15
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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.(A)
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Nahum 1:2
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The Consuming Wrath of God
2 A jealous and avenging God is the Lord;
the Lord is avenging and wrathful;
the Lord takes vengeance on his adversaries
and prolongs it against his enemies.(A)
Jeremiah 32:18
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18 You show steadfast love to the thousandth generation[a] but repay the guilt of parents into the laps of their children after them, O great and mighty God whose name is the Lord of hosts,(A)
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- 32.18 Or to thousands
Numbers 14:33
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33 And your children shall be shepherds in the wilderness for forty years and shall suffer for your faithlessness, until the last of your dead bodies lies in the wilderness.(A)
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