Why do Abrahamic religions depict God as jealous when they are too are revelations?

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Question in your Gita Divya article Krishna is not a jealous god but a zealous god. You mentioned that in the western religions it is talked about how the god there depicted there is jealous and that god approves the destruction of other gods. So if the bible and Quran and the Abrahamic religions are also revelations coming from god then why do they depict a god who is jealous? Are these revelations flawed or how do we understand that if they are revelations they contain something which is not true? Answer is not exactly not true.
The point is that the Vedic culture is a complete revelation in which there is a supreme god and there is a system of assistant administrative demigods and it is those gods who are real but they are not supreme. Whereas at the time when the bible the Quran or the old testament were spoken the word bible is sometimes used to refer to both the old testament and the new testament and sometimes it is just referred to the new testament so old testament is the book of the Jews sacred book of the Jews the new testament often called in short of the bible is referred to as the book of the the Christians and Quran of course is the Muslims so I will use old testament, new testament and the Quran. Now they are spoken at a time when there is no system of demigod worship as is talked about in the Vedic scriptures.
So they were spoken in a socio-cultural situation when people had concocted the worship of many different kinds of gods that means they had personified manifestations of nature and they were worshipping that kind of gods so the idea was that anything that seems powerful in nature let us worship that and people had also, actually it always happens that while it is natural for people to worship some higher being but it is not natural for everyone to be philosophical enough to be discriminating enough to understand who is the ultimate object of worship. So by some folk tradition, by some popular superstition, certain things start getting worshipped. So for example, in the old testament it is described that when Moses was leading the people who later came to be known as Jews, they had been slaves in Egypt and when he was leading them to the promised land of Jerusalem at that time Moses had just gone away from them for some time to receive the 10 commandments from God, he had gone on top of a hill and during that time the people took all their gold that they had and they made into golden calf and started worshipping that and Moses was infuriated on seeing this that they just created, they just concocted some zoomorphic conception zoomorphic means making an animal into a deity and worshipping that and he smashed it and then he said, thou shall, he gave one of the commandments, that thou shall not worship any other god before me so the idea is that when people are having concocted a conception of whom to worship and that is distracting them, not only distracting them, that is actually taking them far away, distracting just to deviate but to take it further away from God then that is undesirable so what we need to understand is that the statements rather than considering them as absolute truths, they are contextual truths and we also there are also other statements which also we will find in these scriptures for example in the Quran itself it is said that there should not be any force in the religion so the idea is that if some other people are worshipping something else you don’t have to necessarily destroy their forms of worship or whatever but in general depending on the temperament of the people and especially the temperament of the leaders certain sections of the scripture get emphasized and certain get de-emphasized so often the exclusivist sounding statements which are there in the scriptures have been emphasized and the more inclusivist kind of statements have been de-emphasized so that’s why the prominent notion at present within the Abrahamic traditions or at least within the conservative groups within the Abrahamic traditions is that one cannot worship any other god and that’s why they have the they don’t have that conception of one supreme god assisted by other gods who are like ministers they consider the other gods to be like competitors and not just competitors, they make it into like a marital bond and the wife should not worship a wife should not have a relationship with a man other than the husband so the idea is god is the husband and we are the wives and to have a relationship with any other god is unchastity so the Bhagavad Gita doesn’t talk of it in terms of unchastity it talks in terms of indiscriminating attitude so worshipping other gods Bhagavad Gita doesn’t say the sign of unchastity it is a sign of unintelligence very less intelligence so that is the difference between the Vedic conception and the the western Abrahamic conception and because they don’t have the conception of any god within the tradition because they are a concocted god that were worshipped at that time and because the leaders are focused on exclusively sounding statements in the scriptures that’s why the notion of a jealous god has gained prominence within these traditions thank you