Exodus 20:5 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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jealous. zealous. Figure of speech Anthropopatheia.App-6. Compare Deuteronomy 4:24.Hebrews 12:29.

GOD. El. See App-4.

visiting. charging. This burden of God's revela tion of Himself reappears in Exodus 34:6; Exodus 34:7; Numbers 14:18; Deuteronomy 5:9; Deuteronomy 5:10. The punishment being not lengthened in vengeance, but distributed in mercy over the third and fourth, so that the whole weight falls not on the first or second. iniquity. Hebrew. 'avon. App-44.

children. sons.

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Exodus 20:5

5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;