Malachi 1:2-14
love .............. love ............. chose <0157> [I have.]
The prophet shows in these verses (ver. 2-5) how much Jacob and the Israelites were favoured by Jehovah, more than Esau and the Edomites. Through every period of the history of Jacob's posterity, they could not deny that God had remarkably appeared on their behalf; but he had rendered the heritage of Esau's descendants, by wars and various other means, barren and waste for ever.
love .............. love ............. chose <0157> [Wherein.]
love .............. love ............. chose <0157> [yet I.]
rejected <08130> [hated.]
turned <07760> [laid.]
wasteland ........ wild jackals <08568 04057> [the.]
again ..................... overthrow <07725 02040> [but.]
build ................ build <01129> [They shall build.]
land <01366> [The border.]
people <05971> [The people.]
eyes <05869> [your.]
Lord <03068> [The Lord.]
border <01366> [from. or, upon. Heb. from upon.]
son <01121> [son.]
slave <05650> [a servant.]
father ............ father <01> [if then.]
From this verse to ch. 2:9, the prophet reproves the priests and people for sacrificing the refuse of beasts; and denounces punishment against the former for not teaching the people their duty in this respect.
master ............... master <0113> [and if.]
priests <03548> [O priests.]
<0559> [And ye.]
offering <05066> [Ye offer, etc. or, Bring unto my, etc. polluted.]
table <07979> [The table.]
when ... offer blind ............. offer .............. offering <05787 07126 05066> [if ye offer the blind.]
sacrifice <02076> [for sacrifice, Heb. to sacrifice. or accept.]
plead ............ With ... kind ... offering ......... pleased .... asks <02470> [beseech.]
God's <0410> [God. Heb. the face of God.]
hands <03027> [by your means. Heb. from your hand. will he.]
close <05462> [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."
close <05462> [even.]
light ......................... accept <0215 07521> [neither.]
pleased <02656> [I have.]
east <04217> [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.
name ................. name ..... name <08034> [my name.]
<04725> [and in.]
Incense <06999> [incense.]
east ...... name ................. name ..... name <04217 08034> [for.]
profaning <02490> [ye have.]
table <07979> [The table.]
tiresome <04972> [Behold.]
say ....... turn up your nose .... says .............................. asks <05301 0559> [and ye have snuffed at it. or, whereas ye might have blown it away. torn.]
accept <07521> [should I accept.]
harsh condemnation <0779> [cursed.]
flock <03426 05739> [which hath in his flock. or, in whose flock is.]
great <01419> [for.]
name <08034> [my name.]
