Ulangan 4:24
Konteks4:24 For the Lord your God is a consuming fire; he is a jealous God. 1
Ulangan 6:15
Konteks6:15 for the Lord your God, who is present among you, is a jealous God and his anger will erupt against you and remove you from the land. 2
Ulangan 32:16
Konteks32:16 They made him jealous with other gods, 3
they enraged him with abhorrent idols. 4
Ulangan 32:21
Konteks32:21 They have made me jealous 5 with false gods, 6
enraging me with their worthless gods; 7
so I will make them jealous with a people they do not recognize, 8
with a nation slow to learn 9 I will enrage them.
[4:24] 1 tn The juxtaposition of the Hebrew terms אֵשׁ (’esh, “fire”) and קַנָּא (qanna’, “jealous”) is interesting in light of Deut 6:15 where the
[6:15] 2 tn Heb “lest the anger of the
[32:16] 3 tc Heb “with strange (things).” The Vulgate actually supplies diis (“gods”).
[32:16] 4 tn Heb “abhorrent (things)” (cf. NRSV). A number of English versions understand this as referring to “idols” (NAB, NIV, NCV, CEV), while NLT supplies “acts.”
[32:21] 5 sn They have made me jealous. The “jealousy” of God is not a spirit of pettiness prompted by his insecurity, but righteous indignation caused by the disloyalty of his people to his covenant grace (see note on the word “God” in Deut 4:24). The jealousy of Israel, however (see next line), will be envy because of God’s lavish attention to another nation. This is an ironic wordplay. See H. Peels, NIDOTTE 3:938-39.
[32:21] 6 tn Heb “what is not a god,” or a “nondeity.”
[32:21] 7 tn Heb “their empty (things).” The Hebrew term used here to refer pejoratively to the false gods is הֶבֶל (hevel, “futile” or “futility”), used frequently in Ecclesiastes (e.g., Eccl 1:1, “Futile! Futile!” laments the Teacher, “Absolutely futile! Everything is futile!”).
[32:21] 8 tn Heb “what is not a people,” or a “nonpeople.” The “nonpeople” (לֹא־עָם, lo’-’am) referred to here are Gentiles who someday would become God’s people in the fullest sense (cf. Hos 1:9; 2:23).
[32:21] 9 tn Heb “a foolish nation” (so KJV, NAB, NRSV); NIV “a nation that has no understanding”; NLT “I will provoke their fury by blessing the foolish Gentiles.”