Malachi 1 (JND) - Bible Truth Library

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.

Ex. 4:22‑23• ²²And thou shalt say to Pharaoh, Thus saith Jehovah: Israel is my son, my firstborn.
²³And I say to thee, Let my son go, that he may serve me. And if thou refuse to let him go, behold, I will kill thy son, thy firstborn. (Ex. 4:22‑23)

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Isa. 1:2• ²Hear, ye heavens, and give ear, thou earth! for Jehovah hath spoken: I have nourished and brought up children; and they have rebelled against me. (Isa. 1:2)

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Isa. 64:8• ⁸And now, Jehovah, thou art our Father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand. (Isa. 64:8)

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Jer. 31:9• ⁹They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them; I will cause them to walk by water-brooks, in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble; for I will be a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn. (Jer. 31:9)

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Matt. 6:9,14‑15• ⁹Thus therefore pray *ye*: Our Father who art in the heavens, let thy name be sanctified,
¹⁴For if ye forgive men their offences, your heavenly Father also will forgive you yours,
¹⁵but if ye do not forgive men their offences, neither will your Father forgive your offences. (Matt. 6:9,14‑15)

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Luke 6:36,46• ³⁶Be ye therefore merciful, even as your Father also is merciful.
⁴⁶And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things that I say? (Luke 6:36,46)

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1 Peter 1:17• ¹⁷And if ye invoke as Father him who, without regard of persons, judges according to the work of each, pass your time of sojourn in fear, (1 Peter 1:17)

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Matt. 7:21• ²¹Not every one who says to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of the heavens, but he that does the will of my Father who is in the heavens. (Matt. 7:21)

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Luke 6:46• ⁴⁶And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things that I say? (Luke 6:46)

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John 13:13‑17• ¹³Ye call me the Teacher and the Lord, and ye say well, for I am so.
¹⁴If I therefore, the Lord and the Teacher, have washed your feet, ye also ought to wash one another's feet;
¹⁵for I have given you an example that, as I have done to you, ye should do also.
¹⁶Verily, verily, I say to you, The bondman is not greater than his lord, nor the sent greater than he who has sent him.
¹⁷If ye know these things, blessed are ye if ye do them. (John 13:13‑17)

O priests.

Mal. 2:8• ⁸But ye are departed out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble at the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith Jehovah of hosts. (Mal. 2:8)

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1 Sam. 2:28‑30• ²⁸and choose him out of all the tribes of Israel, to be my priest, to offer upon mine altar, to burn incense, to wear the ephod before me? and I gave unto the house of thy father all the offerings by fire of the children of Israel.
²⁹Wherefore do ye trample upon my sacrifice and upon mine oblation which I have commanded in my habitation? And thou honourest thy sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the primest of all the oblations of Israel my people.
³⁰Wherefore Jehovah the God of Israel saith, I said indeed, Thy house and the house of thy father should walk before me for ever. But now Jehovah saith, Be it far from me; for them that honour me I will honour, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed. (1 Sam. 2:28‑30)

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Jer. 5:30‑31• ³⁰An appalling and horrible thing is committed in the land:
³¹the prophets prophesy falsehood, and the priests rule by their means; and my people love to have it so. But what will ye do in the end thereof? (Jer. 5:30‑31)

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Jer. 23:11• ¹¹For both prophet and priest are profane: even in my house have I found their wickedness, saith Jehovah. (Jer. 23:11)

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Ezek. 22:26• ²⁶her priests do violence to my law, and profane my holy things: they put no difference between the holy and profane, neither do they make known the difference between the unclean and the clean, and they hide their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them. (Ezek. 22:26)

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Hos. 4:6• ⁶My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; for thou hast rejected knowledge, and I will reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me; seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I also will forget thy children. (Hos. 4:6)

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Hos. 5:1• ¹Hear this, ye priests; and hearken, ye house of Israel; and give ear, O house of the king: for this judgment is for you; for ye have been a snare at Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor. (Hos. 5:1)

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Mal. 2:14‑17• ¹⁴Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because Jehovah hath been a witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt unfaithfully: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.
¹⁵And did not one make them? and the remnant of the Spirit was his. And wherefore the one? He sought a seed of God. Take heed then to your spirit, and let none deal unfaithfully against the wife of his youth,
¹⁶(for I hate putting away, saith Jehovah the God of Israel;) and he covereth with violence his garment, saith Jehovah of hosts: take heed then to your spirit, that ye deal not unfaithfully.
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. 2:14‑17)

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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. 2:21‑22• ²¹And I,--I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed; how then art thou turned into the degenerate shoots of a strange vine unto me?
²²For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much potash, thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord Jehovah. (Jer. 2:21‑22)

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Hos. 12:8• ⁸And Ephraim saith, Nevertheless I am become rich, I have found me out substance; in all my labours they shall find none iniquity in me that were sin. (Hos. 12:8)

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

• The believer can never measure his true state before God unless he does it by the standard of the position in which he by grace has been set. It is a common error to deduce our place from our state. (“Malachi 1” by E. Dennett)

• The state of the priests, even as now the state of those who presumptuously take the place of such, as well as those who are really “pastors and teachers,” is always more or less the state of the people. (“Malachi 1” by E. Dennett)

• The response to this charge brings out a characteristic of the whole book. “Wherein,” say they, “have we despised thy name?” (See Mal. 1:2,6-7; Mal. 3:7-8,13.) Not only were they pursuing a course of forgetfulness of God, and dishonoring His name in all that they did, but, what was still worse, they were also ignorant of their actual condition, and in reply to the charges brought against them, they say, almost in surprise, “Wherein” have we done this or that? (“Malachi 1” by E. Dennett)

J. N. Darby Translation

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 Jehovah of hosts unto you, priests, that despise my name. But ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name?