Nave’s Topical Bible
Jealousy
40 Bible references
Sub-topics and passages
- General scriptures concerning
Proverbs 6:34; Proverbs 27:4; Ecclesiastes 4:4; Song of Songs 8:6
- Law concerning, when husband is jealous for his wife
- Image of
- Attributed to God
Exodus 20:5; Exodus 34:13-14; Numbers 25:11; Deuteronomy 29:20; Deuteronomy 32:16,21; 1 Kings 14:22; Psalms 78:58; Psalms 79:5; Isaiah 30:1-2; Isaiah 31:1,3; Ezekiel 16:42; Ezekiel 23:25; Ezekiel 36:5-6; Ezekiel 38:19; Zephaniah 1:18; Zephaniah 3:8; Zechariah 1:14; Zechariah 8:2; 1 Corinthians 10:22
- An envious spirit
See EMULATION
See ENVY
- FIGURATIVE
- INSTANCES OF
- Cain, of Abel
- Sarah, of Hagar
- Joseph's brothers, of Joseph
- Saul, of David
- Joab, of Abner
- Nathan, of Adonijah
- Ephraimites, of Gideon
- Of Jephthah
- The brother of the prodigal son
- Sectional, between Israel and the tribe of Judah
Bible verses about “Jealousy”
The first verses cited, in the King James Version.
- Proverbs 6:34For jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.
- Proverbs 27:4Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?
- Ecclesiastes 4:4Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit.
- Song of Songs 8:6Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.
- Numbers 5:12Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man’s wife go aside, and commit a trespass against him,
- Numbers 5:13And a man lie with her carnally, and it be hid from the eyes of her husband, and be kept close, and she be defiled, and there be no witness against her, neither she be taken with the manner;
- Numbers 5:14And the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be defiled: or if the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be not defiled:
- Numbers 5:15Then shall the man bring his wife unto the priest, and he shall bring her offering for her, the tenth part of an ephah of barley meal; he shall pour no oil upon it, nor put frankincense thereon; for it is an offering of jealousy, an offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to remembrance.
- Numbers 5:16And the priest shall bring her near, and set her before the Lord:
- Numbers 5:17And the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel; and of the dust that is in the floor of the tabernacle the priest shall take, and put it into the water:
- Numbers 5:18And the priest shall set the woman before the Lord, and uncover the woman’s head, and put the offering of memorial in her hands, which is the jealousy offering: and the priest shall have in his hand the bitter water that causeth the curse:
- Numbers 5:19And the priest shall charge her by an oath, and say unto the woman, If no man have lain with thee, and if thou hast not gone aside to uncleanness with another instead of thy husband, be thou free from this bitter water that causeth the curse:
- Numbers 5:20But if thou hast gone aside to another instead of thy husband, and if thou be defiled, and some man have lain with thee beside thine husband:
- Numbers 5:21Then the priest shall charge the woman with an oath of cursing, and the priest shall say unto the woman, The Lord make thee a curse and an oath among thy people, when the Lord doth make thy thigh to rot, and thy belly to swell;
- Numbers 5:22And this water that causeth the curse shall go into thy bowels, to make thy belly to swell, and thy thigh to rot: And the woman shall say, Amen, amen.
- Numbers 5:23And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them out with the bitter water:
- Numbers 5:24And he shall cause the woman to drink the bitter water that causeth the curse: and the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her, and become bitter.
- Numbers 5:25Then the priest shall take the jealousy offering out of the woman’s hand, and shall wave the offering before the Lord, and offer it upon the altar:
- Numbers 5:26And the priest shall take an handful of the offering, even the memorial thereof, and burn it upon the altar, and afterward shall cause the woman to drink the water.
- Numbers 5:27And when he hath made her to drink the water, then it shall come to pass, that, if she be defiled, and have done trespass against her husband, that the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her, and become bitter, and her belly shall swell, and her thigh shall rot: and the woman shall be a curse among her people.
- Numbers 5:28And if the woman be not defiled, but be clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive seed.
- Numbers 5:29This is the law of jealousies, when a wife goeth aside to another instead of her husband, and is defiled;
- Numbers 5:30Or when the spirit of jealousy cometh upon him, and he be jealous over his wife, and shall set the woman before the Lord, and the priest shall execute upon her all this law.
- Numbers 5:31Then shall the man be guiltless from iniquity, and this woman shall bear her iniquity.
- Ezekiel 8:3And he put forth the form of an hand, and took me by a lock of mine head; and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the inner gate that looketh toward the north; where was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provoketh to jealousy.
- Ezekiel 8:4And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there, according to the vision that I saw in the plain.
- Exodus 20:5Thou 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;
- Exodus 34:13But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves:
- Exodus 34:14For thou shalt worship no other god: for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God:
- Numbers 25:11Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, hath turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, while he was zealous for my sake among them, that I consumed not the children of Israel in my jealousy.
- Deuteronomy 29:20The Lord will not spare him, but then the anger of the Lord and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the Lord shall blot out his name from under heaven.
- Deuteronomy 32:16They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger.
- Deuteronomy 32:21They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
- 1 Kings 14:22And Judah did evil in the sight of the Lord, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they had committed, above all that their fathers had done.
- Psalms 78:58For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
- Psalms 79:5How long, Lord? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire?
- Isaiah 30:1Woe to the rebellious children, saith the Lord, that take counsel, but not of me; and that cover with a covering, but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin:
- Isaiah 30:2That walk to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at my mouth; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to trust in the shadow of Egypt!
- Isaiah 31:1Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help; and stay on horses, and trust in chariots, because they are many; and in horsemen, because they are very strong; but they look not unto the Holy One of Israel, neither seek the Lord!
- Isaiah 31:3Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit. When the Lord shall stretch out his hand, both he that helpeth shall fall, and he that is holpen shall fall down, and they all shall fail together.