The burden of the word of the LORD to Israel by Malachi.
I have loved you, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? saith the LORD: yet I loved Jacob,
I have. The prophet shows in these verses (ver.
Malachi 1:2-5 I have loved you, said the LORD. Yet you say, Wherein have you loved …
Deuteronomy 7:6-8 For you are an holy people to the LORD your God: the LORD your God …
Deuteronomy 10:15 Only the LORD had a delight in your fathers to love them, and he …
Deuteronomy 32:8-14 When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when …
Isaiah 41:8,9 But you, Israel, are my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed …
Isaiah 43:4 Since you were precious in my sight, you have been honorable, and …
Jeremiah 31:3 The LORD has appeared of old to me, saying, Yes, I have loved you …
Romans 11:28,29 As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as …
Wherein.
Malachi 1:6,7 A son honors his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a …
Malachi 2:17 You have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet you say, Wherein have …
Malachi 3:7,8,13,14 Even from the days of your fathers you are gone away from my ordinances, …
Jeremiah 2:5,31 Thus said the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, …
Luke 10:29 But he, willing to justify himself, said to Jesus, And who is my neighbor?
yet I.
Genesis 25:23 And the LORD said to her, Two nations are in your womb, and two manner …
Genesis 27:27-30,33 And he came near, and kissed him: and he smelled the smell of his …
Genesis 28:3,4,13,14 And God Almighty bless you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, …
Genesis 32:28-30 And he said, Your name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: …
Genesis 48:4 And said to me, Behold, I will make you fruitful, and multiply you, …
Romans 9:10-13 And not only this; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, even …
And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.
hated.
Genesis 29:30,31 And he went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than …
Deuteronomy 21:15,16 If a man have two wives, one beloved, and another hated, and they …
Luke 14:26 If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, …
laid.
Isaiah 34:9-12 And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust …
Jeremiah 49:16-18 Your terribleness has deceived you, and the pride of your heart, …
Ezekiel 25:13,14 Therefore thus said the Lord GOD; I will also stretch out my hand …
Ezekiel 36:3,4,7,9,14,15 Therefore prophesy and say, Thus said the Lord GOD; Because they …
Joel 3:19 Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, …
Obadiah 1:10 For your violence against your brother Jacob shame shall cover you, …
the.
Isaiah 13:21,22 But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall …
Isaiah 34:13,14 And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in …
Isaiah 35:7 And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land …
Jeremiah 9:11 And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I will …
Jeremiah 51:37 And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling place for dragons, an …
Whereas Edom saith, We are impoverished, but we will return and build the desolate places; thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall build, but I will throw down; and they shall call them, The border of wickedness, and, The people against whom the LORD hath indignation for ever.
but.
Isaiah 9:9,10 And all the people shall know, even Ephraim and the inhabitant of …
James 4:13-16 Go to now, you that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such …
They shall build.
Job 9:4 He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who has hardened himself …
Job 12:14 Behold, he breaks down, and it cannot be built again: he shuts up …
Job 34:29 When he gives quietness, who then can make trouble? and when he hides …
Psalm 127:1 Except the LORD build the house, they labor in vain that build it: …
Proverbs 21:30 There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the LORD.
Isaiah 10:4,15,16 Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners, and they shall …
Lamentations 3:37 Who is he that said, and it comes to pass, when the Lord commands it not?
Matthew 12:30 He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathers not with …
The border.
Jeremiah 31:17 And there is hope in your end, said the LORD, that your children …
Ezekiel 11:10 You shall fall by the sword; I will judge you in the border of Israel; …
Amos 6:2 Pass you to Calneh, and see; and from there go you to Hamath the …
The people.
Malachi 1:3 And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for …
Psalm 137:7 Remember, O LORD, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who …
Isaiah 11:14 But they shall fly on the shoulders of the Philistines toward the …
Isaiah 34:5,10 For my sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold, it shall come down …
Isaiah 63:1-6 Who is this that comes from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? …
Lamentations 4:21,22 Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwell in the land of …
Ezekiel 25:14 And I will lay my vengeance on Edom by the hand of my people Israel…
Ezekiel 35:9 I will make you perpetual desolations, and your cities shall not …
And your eyes shall see, and ye shall say, The LORD will be magnified from the border of Israel.
your.
Deuteronomy 4:3 Your eyes have seen what the LORD did because of Baalpeor: for all …
Deuteronomy 11:7 But your eyes have seen all the great acts of the LORD which he did.
Joshua 24:7 And when they cried to the LORD, he put darkness between you and …
1 Samuel 12:16 Now therefore stand and see this great thing, which the LORD will …
2 Chronicles 29:8 Why the wrath of the LORD was on Judah and Jerusalem, and he has …
Luke 10:23,24 And he turned him to his disciples, and said privately, Blessed are …
The Lord.
Psalm 35:26,27 Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at my hurt…
Psalm 58:10,11 The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance: he shall …
Psalm 83:17,18 Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yes, let them be put …
Ezekiel 38:16,23 And you shall come up against my people of Israel, as a cloud to …
Ezekiel 39:21,22 And I will set my glory among the heathen, and all the heathen shall …
from. or, upon. Heb. from upon.
A son honoureth his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is mine honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear? saith the LORD of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name?
son.
Exodus 20:12 Honor your father and your mother: that your days may be long on …
Leviticus 19:3 You shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my …
Deuteronomy 5:16 Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded …
Proverbs 30:11,17 There is a generation that curses their father, and does not bless …
Matthew 15:4,6 For God commanded, saying, Honor your father and mother: and, He …
Matthew 19:19 Honor your father and your mother: and, You shall love your neighbor …
Mark 7:10 For Moses said, Honor your father and your mother; and, Whoever curses …
Mark 10:19 You know the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do …
Luke 18:20 You know the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do …
Ephesians 6:2 Honor your father and mother; which is the first commandment with promise;
a servant.
1 Timothy 6:1,2 Let as many servants as are under the yoke count their own masters …
Titus 2:9,10 Exhort servants to be obedient to their own masters, and to please …
1 Peter 2:17-19 Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king…
if then. From this verse to ch.
Malachi 2:9 Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the …
Exodus 4:22,23 And you shall say to Pharaoh, Thus said the LORD, Israel is my son, …
Isaiah 1:2 Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD has spoken, …
Isaiah 64:8 But now, O LORD, you are our father; we are the clay, and you our …
Jeremiah 31:9 They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them…
Matthew 6:9,14,15 After this manner therefore pray you: Our Father which are in heaven, …
Luke 6:36,46 Be you therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful…
1 Peter 1:17 And if you call on the Father, who without respect of persons judges …
and if.
Matthew 7:21 Not every one that said to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom …
Luke 6:46 And why call you me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?
John 13:13-17 You call me Master and Lord: and you say well; for so I am…
O priests.
Malachi 2:8 But you are departed out of the way; you have caused many to stumble …
1 Samuel 2:28-30 And did I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, …
Jeremiah 5:30,31 A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land…
Jeremiah 23:11 For both prophet and priest are profane; yes, in my house have I …
Ezekiel 22:26 Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned my holy things: …
Hosea 4:6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because you have rejected …
Hosea 5:1 Hear you this, O priests; and listen, you house of Israel; and give …
And ye.
Malachi 2:14-17 Yet you say, Why? Because the LORD has been witness between you and …
Malachi 3:7,8,13,14 Even from the days of your fathers you are gone away from my ordinances, …
Jeremiah 2:21,22 Yet I had planted you a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then …
Hosea 12:8 And Ephraim said, Yet I am become rich, I have found me out substance…
Luke 10:29 But he, willing to justify himself, said to Jesus, And who is my neighbor?
Ye offer polluted bread upon mine altar; and ye say, Wherein have we polluted thee? In that ye say, The table of the LORD is contemptible.
Ye offer, etc. or, Bring unto my, etc. polluted.
Leviticus 2:11 No meat offering, which you shall bring to the LORD, shall be made …
Leviticus 21:6 They shall be holy to their God, and not profane the name of their …
Deuteronomy 15:21 And if there be any blemish therein, as if it be lame, or blind, …
The table.
Malachi 1:12 But you have profaned it, in that you say, The table of the LORD …
1 Samuel 2:15-17 Also before they burnt the fat, the priest's servant came, and said …
Ezekiel 41:22 The altar of wood was three cubits high, and the length thereof two …
1 Corinthians 10:21 You cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: you …
1 Corinthians 11:21,22,27-32 For in eating every one takes before other his own supper: and one …
And if ye offer the blind for sacrifice, is it not evil? and if ye offer the lame and sick, is it not evil? offer it now unto thy governor; will he be pleased with thee, or accept thy person? saith the LORD of hosts.
if ye offer the blind.
Malachi 1:14 But cursed be the deceiver, which has in his flock a male, and vows, …
Leviticus 22:19-25 You shall offer at your own will a male without blemish, of the beeves, …
Deuteronomy 15:21 And if there be any blemish therein, as if it be lame, or blind, …
for sacrifice, Heb. to sacrifice. or accept.
Malachi 1:10,13 Who is there even among you that would shut the doors for nothing? …
Job 42:8 Therefore take to you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to …
Psalm 20:3 Remember all your offerings, and accept your burnt sacrifice; Selah.
Jeremiah 14:10 Thus said the LORD to this people, Thus have they loved to wander, …
Hosea 8:13 They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of my offerings, and eat …
And now, I pray you, beseech God that he will be gracious unto us: this hath been by your means: will he regard your persons? saith the LORD of hosts.
beseech.
2 Chronicles 30:27 Then the priests the Levites arose and blessed the people: and their …
Jeremiah 27:18 But if they be prophets, and if the word of the LORD be with them, …
Joel 1:13,14 Gird yourselves, and lament, you priests: howl, you ministers of …
Joel 2:17 Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch …
Zechariah 3:1-5 And he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel …
John 9:31 Now we know that God hears not sinners: but if any man be a worshipper …
Hebrews 7:26,27 For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, …
God. Heb. the face of God.
Exodus 32:11 And Moses sought the LORD his God, and said, LORD, why does your …
Jeremiah 26:19 Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him at all to death? …
Lamentations 2:19 Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour …
by your means. Heb. from your hand. will he.
Acts 19:15,16 And the evil spirit answered and said, Jesus I know, and Paul I know; …
Romans 2:11 For there is no respect of persons with God.
1 Peter 1:17 And if you call on the Father, who without respect of persons judges …
Who is there even among you that would shut the doors for nought? neither do ye kindle fire on mine altar for nought. I have no pleasure in you, saith the LORD of hosts, neither will I accept an offering at your hand.
Who. Instead of {mi,} who, one MS. (30 K.) with the LXX reads {ki,} surely, which is adopted by Houbigant and Abp. Newcome, who renders, Surely the doors shall be closed against you, neither shall ye kindle the fire of my altar in vain.
even.
Job 1:9-11 Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, Does Job fear God for nothing…
Isaiah 56:11,12 Yes, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are …
Jeremiah 6:13 For from the least of them even to the greatest of them every one …
Jeremiah 8:10 Therefore will I give their wives to others, and their fields to …
Micah 3:11 The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach …
John 10:12 But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep …
Philippians 2:21 For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ's.
1 Peter 5:2 Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, …
neither.
1 Corinthians 9:13 Do you not know that they which minister about holy things live of …
I have.
Isaiah 1:11-15 To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices to me? said the …
Jeremiah 6:20 To what purpose comes there to me incense from Sheba, and the sweet …
Amos 5:21-24 I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn …
Hebrews 10:38 Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul …
For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same my name shall be great among the Gentiles; and in every place incense shall be offered unto my name, and a pure offering: for my name shall be great among the heathen, saith the LORD of hosts.
from. As the preceding verse was a prediction of the abolition of the Levitical priesthood, so this is a prophecy of the conversion of the Gentiles, and the spiritual priesthood of the Gospel times. As none but priests of Aaron's race might burn incense before Jehovah, a total change of the external administration of the sacred ordinances is evidently predicted.
Psalm 50:1 The mighty God, even the LORD, has spoken, and called the earth from …
Psalm 113:3 From the rising of the sun to the going down of the same the LORD's …
Isaiah 45:6 That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, …
Isaiah 59:19 So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his glory …
Zechariah 8:7 Thus said the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will save my people from the …
my name.
Malachi 1:14 But cursed be the deceiver, which has in his flock a male, and vows, …
Psalm 22:27-31 All the ends of the world shall remember and turn to the LORD: and …
Psalm 67:2 That your way may be known on earth, your saving health among all nations.
Psalm 72:11-17 Yes, all kings shall fall down before him: all nations shall serve him…
Psalm 98:1-3 O sing to the LORD a new song; for he has done marvelous things: …
Isaiah 11:9,10 They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the …
Isaiah 45:22,23 Look to me, and be you saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am …
Isaiah 49:6,7,22,23 And he said, It is a light thing that you should be my servant to …
Isaiah 54:1-3,5 Sing, O barren, you that did not bear; break forth into singing, …
Isaiah 60:1-11,16-22 Arise, shine; for your light is come, and the glory of the LORD is …
Isaiah 66:19,20 And I will set a sign among them, and I will send those that escape …
Amos 9:12 That they may possess the remnant of Edom, and of all the heathen, …
Micah 5:4 And he shall stand and feed in the strength of the LORD, in the majesty …
Zephaniah 3:9 For then will I turn to the people a pure language, that they may …
Zechariah 8:20-23 Thus said the LORD of hosts; It shall yet come to pass, that there …
Matthew 6:9,10 After this manner therefore pray you: Our Father which are in heaven, …
Matthew 28:19 Go you therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name …
Acts 15:17,18 That the residue of men might seek after the Lord, and all the Gentiles, …
Revelation 11:15 And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying…
Revelation 15:4 Who shall not fear you, O Lord, and glorify your name? for you only …
and in.
Isaiah 24:14-16 They shall lift up their voice, they shall sing for the majesty of …
Isaiah 42:10-12 Sing to the LORD a new song, and his praise from the end of the earth, …
Zephaniah 2:11 The LORD will be terrible to them: for he will famish all the gods …
John 4:21-23 Jesus said to her, Woman, believe me, the hour comes, when you shall …
Acts 10:30-35 And Cornelius said, Four days ago I was fasting until this hour; …
Romans 15:9-11,16 And that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy; as it is written, …
1 Timothy 2:8 I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, …
Revelation 8:3 And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer; …
incense.
Psalm 141:2 Let my prayer be set forth before you as incense; and the lifting …
Isaiah 60:6 The multitude of camels shall cover you, the dromedaries of Midian …
Luke 1:10 And the whole multitude of the people were praying without at the …
Romans 12:1 I beseech you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, that you …
Philippians 4:18 But I have all, and abound: I am full, having received of Epaphroditus …
Hebrews 13:15,16 By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, …
Revelation 5:8 And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four and twenty …
Revelation 8:3,4 And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer; …
for.
Isaiah 66:19,20 And I will set a sign among them, and I will send those that escape …
But ye have profaned it, in that ye say, The table of the LORD is polluted; and the fruit thereof, even his meat, is contemptible.
ye have.
Malachi 1:6,8 A son honors his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a …
Malachi 2:8 But you are departed out of the way; you have caused many to stumble …
2 Samuel 12:14 However,, because by this deed you have given great occasion to the …
Ezekiel 36:21-23 But I had pity for my holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned …
Amos 2:7 That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and …
Romans 2:24 For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, …
The table.
Malachi 1:7,13 You offer polluted bread on my altar; and you say, Wherein have we …
Numbers 11:4-8 And the mixed multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the …
Daniel 5:3,4 Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple …
Ye said also, Behold, what a weariness is it! and ye have snuffed at it, saith the LORD of hosts; and ye brought that which was torn, and the lame, and the sick; thus ye brought an offering: should I accept this of your hand? saith the LORD.
Behold.
1 Samuel 2:29 Why kick you at my sacrifice and at my offering, which I have commanded …
Isaiah 43:22 But you have not called on me, O Jacob; but you have been weary of me, O Israel.
Amos 8:5 Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and …
Micah 6:3 O my people, what have I done to you? and wherein have I wearied …
Mark 14:4,5,37,38 And there were some that had indignation within themselves, and said, …
and ye have snuffed at it. or, whereas ye might have blown it away. torn.
Malachi 1:7,8 You offer polluted bread on my altar; and you say, Wherein have we …
Leviticus 22:8,19-23 That which dies of itself, or is torn with beasts, he shall not eat …
Deuteronomy 15:21 And if there be any blemish therein, as if it be lame, or blind, …
Ezekiel 4:14 Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! behold, my soul has not been polluted…
Ezekiel 44:31 The priests shall not eat of any thing that is dead of itself, or …
should I accept.
Malachi 2:13 And this have you done again, covering the altar of the LORD with …
Isaiah 1:12 When you come to appear before me, who has required this at your …
Isaiah 57:6 Among the smooth stones of the stream is your portion; they, they …
Jeremiah 7:9-11,21-24 Will you steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and …
Amos 5:21-23 I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn …
Zechariah 7:5,6 Speak to all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, …
Matthew 6:1,2,5,16 Take heed that you do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: …
But cursed be the deceiver, which hath in his flock a male, and voweth, and sacrificeth unto the Lord a corrupt thing: for I am a great King, saith the LORD of hosts, and my name is dreadful among the heathen.
cursed.
Malachi 3:9 You are cursed with a curse: for you have robbed me, even this whole nation.
Genesis 27:12 My father peradventure will feel me, and I shall seem to him as a …
Joshua 7:11,12 Israel has sinned, and they have also transgressed my covenant which …
Jeremiah 48:10 Cursed be he that does the work of the LORD deceitfully, and cursed …
Matthew 24:51 And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: …
Luke 12:1,2,46 In the mean time, when there were gathered together an innumerable …
Acts 5:1-10 But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession…
Revelation 21:8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, …
which hath in his flock. or, in whose flock is.
Ecclesiastes 5:4,5 When you vow a vow to God, defer not to pay it; for he has no pleasure …
Mark 12:41-44 And Jesus sat over against the treasury, and beheld how the people …
Mark 14:8 She has done what she could: she is come beforehand to anoint my …
2 Corinthians 8:12 For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to …
for.
Malachi 1:8,11 And if you offer the blind for sacrifice, is it not evil? and if …
Deuteronomy 28:58 If you will not observe to do all the words of this law that are …
Psalm 47:2 For the LORD most high is terrible; he is a great King over all the earth.
Psalm 48:2 Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, …
Psalm 95:3 For the LORD is a great God, and a great King above all gods.
Isaiah 57:15 For thus said the high and lofty One that inhabits eternity, whose …
Jeremiah 10:10 But the LORD is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting …
Daniel 4:37 Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honor the King of heaven, …
Zechariah 14:9 And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall …
Matthew 5:35 Nor by the earth; for it is his footstool: neither by Jerusalem; …
1 Timothy 6:15 Which in his times he shall show, who is the blessed and only Potentate, …
my name.
Psalm 68:35 O God, you are terrible out of your holy places: the God of Israel …
Psalm 76:12 He shall cut off the spirit of princes: he is terrible to the kings …
Daniel 9:4 And I prayed to the LORD my God, and made my confession, and said, …
Hebrews 12:29 For our God is a consuming fire.
Revelation 15:4 Who shall not fear you, O Lord, and glorify your name? for you only …
