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Mal. 1:2 KJV (With Strong’s)

I have lovedd you, saith the Lord. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob’s brother? saith the Lord: yet I loved Jacobf,

Deut. 7:7‑8• ⁷Not because ye were more in number than all the peoples, hath Jehovah been attached to you and chosen you, for ye are the fewest of all the peoples;
⁸but because Jehovah loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath Jehovah brought you out with a powerful hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. (Deut. 7:7‑8)

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Jer. 31:3• ³Jehovah hath appeared from afar unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love; therefore with loving-kindness have I drawn thee. (Jer. 31:3)

Rom. 9:13• ¹³according as it is written, I have loved Jacob, and I have hated Esau. (Rom. 9:13)

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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.

Deut. 7:6‑8• ⁶For a holy people art thou unto Jehovah thy God: Jehovah thy God hath chosen thee to be unto him a people for a possession, above all the peoples that are upon the face of the earth.
⁷Not because ye were more in number than all the peoples, hath Jehovah been attached to you and chosen you, for ye are the fewest of all the peoples;
⁸but because Jehovah loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath Jehovah brought you out with a powerful hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. (Deut. 7:6‑8)

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Deut. 10:15• ¹⁵Only, Jehovah took pleasure in thy fathers, to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you, out of all the peoples, as it is this day. (Deut. 10:15)

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Deut. 32:8‑14• ⁸When the Most High assigned to the nations their inheritance, When he separated the sons of Adam, He set the bounds of the peoples According to the number of the children of Israel.
⁹For Jehovah's portion is his people; Jacob the lot of his inheritance.
¹⁰He found him in a desert land, And in the waste, howling wilderness; He compassed him about, he watched over him, He preserved him as the apple of his eye.
¹¹As the eagle stirreth up its nest, Hovereth over its young, Spreadeth out its wings, Taketh them, beareth them on its feathers,
¹²So Jehovah alone did lead him, And no strange *god was with him.
¹³He made him ride on the high places of the earth, And he ate the produce of the field; And he made him suck honey out of the crag, And oil out of the flinty rock;
¹⁴Cream of kine, and milk of sheep, With the fat of lambs, And rams of the breed of Bashan, and he-goats, With the fat of kidneys of wheat; And thou didst drink pure wine, the blood of the grape. (Deut. 32:8‑14)

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Isa. 41:8‑9• ⁸But thou, Israel, my servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham, my friend
⁹--thou whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and called from the extremities thereof, and to whom I said, Thou art my servant, I have chosen thee and not rejected thee, (Isa. 41:8‑9)

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Isa. 43:4• ⁴Since thou wast precious in my sight, thou hast been honourable, and I have loved thee; and I will give men for thee, and peoples for thy life. (Isa. 43:4)

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Jer. 31:3• ³Jehovah hath appeared from afar unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love; therefore with loving-kindness have I drawn thee. (Jer. 31:3)

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Rom. 11:28‑29• ²⁸As regards the glad tidings, they are enemies on your account; but as regards election, beloved on account of the fathers.
²⁹For the gifts and the calling of God are not subject to repentance. (Rom. 11:28‑29)

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Mal. 1:6‑7• ⁶A 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 Jehovah of hosts unto you, priests, that despise my name. But ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name?
⁷Ye offer polluted bread upon mine altar; and ye say, Wherein have we polluted thee? In that ye say, The table of Jehovah is contemptible. (Mal. 1:6‑7)

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Mal. 2:17• ¹⁷Ye have wearied Jehovah with your words, and ye say, Wherein have we wearied him? In that ye say, Every one that doeth evil is good in the sight of Jehovah, and he delighteth in them; or, Where is the God of judgment? (Mal. 2:17)

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Mal. 3:7‑8,13‑14• ⁷Since the days of your fathers have ye departed from my statutes, and have not kept them. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith Jehovah of hosts. But ye say, Wherein shall we return?
⁸Will a man rob God? But ye rob me. And ye say, Wherein do we rob thee? In tithes and heave-offerings.
¹³Your words have been stout against me, saith Jehovah; but ye say, What have we been speaking against thee?
¹⁴Ye say, It is vain to serve God; and what profit is it that we keep his charge, and that we walk mournfully before Jehovah of hosts? (Mal. 3:7‑8,13‑14)

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Jer. 2:5,31• ⁵Thus saith Jehovah: What injustice have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and become vain?
³¹O generation, mark ye the word of Jehovah. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel, or a land of thick darkness? Wherefore say my people, We have dominion; we will come no more unto thee? (Jer. 2:5,31)

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Luke 10:29• ²⁹But he, desirous of justifying himself, said to Jesus, And who is my neighbour? (Luke 10:29)

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Gen. 25:23• ²³And Jehovah said to her, Two nations are in thy womb, And two peoples shall be separated from thy bowels; And one people shall be stronger than the other people, And the elder shall serve the younger. (Gen. 25:23)

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Gen. 27:27‑30,33• ²⁷And he came near, and kissed him. And he smelt the smell of his clothes, and blessed him, and said, See, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field which Jehovah hath blessed.
²⁸And God give thee of the dew of heaven, And of the fatness of the earth, And plenty of corn and new wine.
²⁹Let peoples serve thee, And races bow down to thee. Be lord over thy brethren, And let thy mother's sons bow down to thee. Cursed be they that curse thee, And blessed be they that bless thee.
³⁰And it came to pass when Isaac had ended blessing Jacob, and when Jacob was only just gone out from Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came from his hunting.
³³Then Isaac trembled with exceeding great trembling, and said, Who was he, then, that hunted venison and brought it to me? And I have eaten of all before thou camest, and have blessed him; also blessed he shall be. (Gen. 27:27‑30,33)

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Gen. 28:3‑4,13‑14• ³And the Almighty *God bless thee, and make thee fruitful and multiply thee, that thou mayest become a company of peoples.
⁴And may he give thee the blessing of Abraham, to thee and to thy seed with thee, in order that thou mayest possess the land of thy sojourning, which God gave to Abraham!
¹³And behold, Jehovah stood above it. And he said, I am Jehovah, the God of Abraham, thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land on which thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed.
¹⁴And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south; and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed. (Gen. 28:3‑4,13‑14)

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Gen. 32:28‑30• ²⁸And he said, Thy name shall not henceforth be called Jacob, but Israel; for thou hast wrestled with God, and with men, and hast prevailed.
²⁹And Jacob asked and said, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name. And he said, How is it that thou askest after my name? And he blessed him there.
³⁰And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel--For I have seen God face to face, and my life has been preserved. (Gen. 32:28‑30)

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Gen. 48:4• ⁴and he said to me, Behold, I will make thee fruitful and multiply thee, and I will make of thee a company of peoples; and will give this land to thy seed after thee for an everlasting possession. (Gen. 48:4)

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Rom. 9:10‑13• ¹⁰And not only that, but Rebecca having conceived by one, Isaac our father,
¹¹the children indeed being not yet born, or having done anything good or worthless (that the purpose of God according to election might abide, not of works, but of him that calls),
¹²it was said to her, The greater shall serve the less:
¹³according as it is written, I have loved Jacob, and I have hated Esau. (Rom. 9:10‑13)

J. N. Darby Translation

I have loved you, saith Jehovah; but ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob’s brother? saith Jehovah, and I loved Jacob,