Thou shalt not bow] Nor serve, nor sacrifice, nor doe any service to them. By this kind of gesture, all kind of lawfull service and worship of the true God is commanded in the Scripture. And in the same phrase, all honouring of Idols, 1 Kings 19:18. 2 Kings 17:35. and all religious worship of the creatures, whether absolutely, or relatively; mediately, or ultimately, is condemned. jealous God] God and his people, are as a man and his wife, Hosea 2:16. 19. and if they commit adultery against him by idolatrie, (for that is spirituall adulterie, as is said in the Note on the third vers.) he will be inraged at the matter, as a jealous husband at his lascivious wife, and injurious Rivall, Proverbs 6:34-35. and this should make his people chastly precise, and scrupulous against all occasions and appearances of Idolatry, by which his jealousie may be provoked. Nahum 1:2. Isaiah 48:11. upon the children] This doth not contradict that of the Prophet Ezekiel, The sonne shall not die for the iniquitie of his father, Ezekiel 18:17. nor of the Apostle, Every one shall beare his own burden, Galatians 5:6. The meaning of which words are, that no sonne shall be damned for the sinne of his father; nor one man for the sinne of another, unlesse by commission, or approbation, or some other way he make it his own. But for temporall punishments, there is none but (by occasion of others sins) may have their portion in them: the sinne of David occasioned the slaughter of seventie thousand, 2 Samuel 24:15. yet they (though in his conceit innocent sheepe, ver. 17.) were guilty of sinne, and worthy of death as well as he, and yet from him might come the occasion of their death; as one may catch the Plague of another, and yet die not by his disease from whom he tooke the infection, but his owne. But this is spoken chiefly of those who continue in the sinne of their Parents: and though divers die, (in their minoritie) God foreseeth how bad they would be if they lived, Psalms 58:3. And sometimes the Parents derive vengeance on their heads by imprecations upon them, as the wicked Jews wished Christs blood, (that is, the guilt of his bloud) might be on themselves, and on their children, Matthew 27:25. And sometimes the good children of wicked Parents, are temporally punished, 1 King. chap. 14. vers. 12, 13. because in them, and by such means, are their Parents punished; for that in them they would live and flourish, when themselves are dead. Isaiah 65:69. &chap. 14. vers. 20, 21. 1 Kings 21:29. Job 5:4. &chap. 21. 19. Numbers 4:33. 1 Samuel 15:3. Matth. 23. 34, 35. 2 Samuel 12:11. &chap. 21. 5. 14. third and fourth generation] Jeremiah 2:9. Exodus 34:7. The third and fourth generation are named, because (many times) the Parents live to see their owne iniquitie practised and punished in their childrens children. hate me] Deuteronomy 7:10. The loving of Idols, is the hating of God, James 4:4.