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Text -- Malachi 2:10-17 (NET)
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The Rebellion of the People
2:10 Do we not all have one father ? Did not one God create us? Why do we betray one another , in this way making light of the covenant of our ancestors ?
2:11 Judah has become disloyal , and unspeakable sins have been committed in Israel and Jerusalem . For Judah has profaned the holy things that the Lord loves and has turned to a foreign god !
2:12 May the Lord cut off from the community of Jacob every last person who does this, as well as the person who presents improper offerings to the Lord who rules over all !
2:13 You also do this : You cover the altar of the Lord with tears as you weep and groan , because he no longer pays any attention to the offering nor accepts it favorably from you.
2:14 Yet you ask , “Why ?” The Lord is testifying against you on behalf of the wife you married when you were young , to whom you have become unfaithful even though she is your companion and wife by law .
2:15 No one who has even a small portion of the Spirit in him does this. What did our ancestor do when seeking a child from God ? Be attentive , then, to your own spirit , for one should not be disloyal to the wife he took in his youth .
2:16 “I hate divorce ,” says the Lord God of Israel , “and the one who is guilty of violence ,” says the Lord who rules over all . “Pay attention to your conscience , and do not be unfaithful .”
Resistance to the Lord through Self-deceit
2:17 You have wearied the Lord with your words . But you say , “How have we wearied him?” Because you say , “Everyone who does evil is good in the Lord’s opinion , and he delights in them,” or “Where is the God of justice ?”
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Malachi |
Malachi, Prophecies of |
Marriage |
Husband |
Idolatry |
Divorce |
Wicked |
Polygamy |
Godlessness |
God |
Fraternity |
Hatred |
Mankind |
Watchfulness |
Sin |
Race |
Impenitence |
Hypocrisy |
ZECHARIAH, BOOK OF |
FERRET |
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NET Notes: Mal 2:10 The rhetorical question Do we not all have one father? by no means teaches the “universal fatherhood of God,” that is, that all people equ...
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NET Notes: Mal 2:11 Heb “has married the daughter of a foreign god.” Marriage is used here as a metaphor to describe Judah’s idolatry, that is, her unfa...
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NET Notes: Mal 2:12 Heb “every man who does this, him who is awake and him who answers.” The idea seems to be a merism expressing totality, that is, everybody...
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NET Notes: Mal 2:13 You cover the altar of the Lord with tears. These tears are the false tears of hypocrisy, not genuine tears of repentance. The people weep because the...
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NET Notes: Mal 2:14 Though there is no explicit reference to marriage vows in the OT (but see Job 7:13; Prov 2:17; Ezek 16:8), the term law (Heb “covenant”) h...
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NET Notes: Mal 2:15 The wife he took in his youth probably refers to the first wife one married (cf. NCV “the wife you married when you were young”).
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NET Notes: Mal 2:16 Heb “him who covers his garment with violence” (similar ASV, NRSV). Here “garment” is a metaphor for appearance and “vio...
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