If Jealousy Is a Sin, Why Is God Described as Jealous?

Nobody likes being called jealous. Jealousy is that friend who can’t celebrate your promotion or the ex who still checks your Instagram story.Scripture doesn’t exactly give it a glowing review either, warning that envy and selfish ambition leave destruction in their wake.So when God calls Himself jealous, it’s fair to wonder if something got lost in translation.Exodus 34:14 says, “Do not worship any other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.” That’s not an isolated verse e