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Malachi 4

Mal. 4:6 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And he shall turn
shuwb (Hebrew #7725)
to turn back (hence, away) transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively (not necessarily with the idea of return to the starting point); generally to retreat; often adverbial, again
KJV usage: ((break, build, circumcise, dig, do anything, do evil, feed, lay down, lie down, lodge, make, rejoice, send, take, weep)) X again, (cause to) answer (+ again), X in any case (wise), X at all, averse, bring (again, back, home again), call (to mind), carry again (back), cease, X certainly, come again (back), X consider, + continually, convert, deliver (again), + deny, draw back, fetch home again, X fro, get (oneself) (back) again, X give (again), go again (back, home), (go) out, hinder, let, (see) more, X needs, be past, X pay, pervert, pull in again, put (again, up again), recall, recompense, recover, refresh, relieve, render (again), requite, rescue, restore, retrieve, (cause to, make to) return, reverse, reward, + say nay, send back, set again, slide back, still, X surely, take back (off), (cause to, make to) turn (again, self again, away, back, back again, backward, from, off), withdraw.
Pronounce: shoob
Origin: a primitive root
the heart
leb (Hebrew #3820)
the heart; also used (figuratively) very widely for the feelings, the will and even the intellect; likewise for the centre of anything
KJV usage: + care for, comfortably, consent, X considered, courag(-eous), friend(-ly), ((broken-), (hard-), (merry-), (stiff-), (stout-), double) heart((-ed)), X heed, X I, kindly, midst, mind(-ed), X regard((-ed)), X themselves, X unawares, understanding, X well, willingly, wisdom.
Pronounce: labe
Origin: a form of 3824
of the fathers
'ab (Hebrew #1)
father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application)
KJV usage: chief, (fore-)father(-less), X patrimony, principal. Compare names in "Abi-".
Pronounce: awb
Origin: a primitive word
to the children
ben (Hebrew #1121)
a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or condition, etc., (like 1, 251, etc.))
KJV usage: + afflicted, age, (Ahoh-) (Ammon-) (Hachmon-) (Lev-)ite, (anoint-)ed one, appointed to, (+) arrow, (Assyr-) (Babylon-) (Egypt-) (Grec-)ian, one born, bough, branch, breed, + (young) bullock, + (young) calf, X came up in, child, colt, X common, X corn, daughter, X of first, + firstborn, foal, + very fruitful, + postage, X in, + kid, + lamb, (+) man, meet, + mighty, + nephew, old, (+) people, + rebel, + robber, X servant born, X soldier, son, + spark, + steward, + stranger, X surely, them of, + tumultuous one, + valiant(-est), whelp, worthy, young (one), youth.
Pronounce: bane
Origin: from {SI 11129}1129{/SI}
, and the heart
leb (Hebrew #3820)
the heart; also used (figuratively) very widely for the feelings, the will and even the intellect; likewise for the centre of anything
KJV usage: + care for, comfortably, consent, X considered, courag(-eous), friend(-ly), ((broken-), (hard-), (merry-), (stiff-), (stout-), double) heart((-ed)), X heed, X I, kindly, midst, mind(-ed), X regard((-ed)), X themselves, X unawares, understanding, X well, willingly, wisdom.
Pronounce: labe
Origin: a form of 3824
of the children
ben (Hebrew #1121)
a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or condition, etc., (like 1, 251, etc.))
KJV usage: + afflicted, age, (Ahoh-) (Ammon-) (Hachmon-) (Lev-)ite, (anoint-)ed one, appointed to, (+) arrow, (Assyr-) (Babylon-) (Egypt-) (Grec-)ian, one born, bough, branch, breed, + (young) bullock, + (young) calf, X came up in, child, colt, X common, X corn, daughter, X of first, + firstborn, foal, + very fruitful, + postage, X in, + kid, + lamb, (+) man, meet, + mighty, + nephew, old, (+) people, + rebel, + robber, X servant born, X soldier, son, + spark, + steward, + stranger, X surely, them of, + tumultuous one, + valiant(-est), whelp, worthy, young (one), youth.
Pronounce: bane
Origin: from {SI 11129}1129{/SI}
to their fathers
'ab (Hebrew #1)
father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application)
KJV usage: chief, (fore-)father(-less), X patrimony, principal. Compare names in "Abi-".
Pronounce: awb
Origin: a primitive word
, lest I come
bow' (Hebrew #935)
to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
KJV usage: abide, apply, attain, X be, befall, + besiege, bring (forth, in, into, to pass), call, carry, X certainly, (cause, let, thing for) to come (against, in, out, upon, to pass), depart, X doubtless again, + eat, + employ, (cause to) enter (in, into, -tering, -trance, -try), be fallen, fetch, + follow, get, give, go (down, in, to war), grant, + have, X indeed, (in-)vade, lead, lift (up), mention, pull in, put, resort, run (down), send, set, X (well) stricken (in age), X surely, take (in), way.
Pronounce: bo
Origin: a primitive root
and smite
nakah (Hebrew #5221)
to strike (lightly or severely, literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: beat, cast forth, clap, give (wounds), X go forward, X indeed, kill, make (slaughter), murderer, punish, slaughter, slay(-er, -ing), smite(-r, -ing), strike, be stricken, (give) stripes, X surely, wound.
Pronounce: naw-kaw'
Origin: a primitive root
the earth
'erets (Hebrew #776)
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
KJV usage: X common, country, earth, field, ground, land, X natins, way, + wilderness, world.
Pronounce: eh'-rets
Origin: from an unused root probably meaning to be firm
with a curse
cherem (Hebrew #2764)
from 2763; physical (as shutting in) a net (either literally or figuratively); usually a doomed object; abstr. extermination
KJV usage: (ac-)curse(- d, -d thing), dedicated thing, things which should have been utterly destroyed, (appointed to) utter destruction, devoted (thing), net.
Pronounce: khay'-rem
Origin: or (Zecheriah 14:11) cherem {kheh'-rem}
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Ministry on This Verse

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Luke 1:16‑17,76• 16And many of the sons of Israel shall he turn to the Lord their God.
 17And *he* shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn hearts of fathers to children, and disobedient ones to the thoughts of just men, to make ready for the Lord a prepared people.
 76And *thou*, child, shalt be called the prophet of the Highest; for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to make ready his ways; (Luke 1:16‑17,76)
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Isa. 61:2• 2to proclaim the acceptable year of Jehovah, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn; (Isa. 61:2)
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Dan. 9:26‑27• 26And after the sixty-two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, and shall have nothing; and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with an overflow, and unto the end, war,--the desolations determined.
 27And he shall confirm a covenant with the many for one week; and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and because of the protection of abominations there shall be a desolator, even until that the consumption and what is determined shall be poured out upon the desolate. (Dan. 9:26‑27)
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Zech. 11:6• 6For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land, saith Jehovah, and behold, I will deliver men, every one into his neighbour's hand, and into the hand of his king; and they shall smite the land, and I will not deliver out of their hand. (Zech. 11:6)
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Zech. 13:8• 8And it shall come to pass in all the land, saith Jehovah, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein. (Zech. 13:8)
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Zech. 14:2• 2And I will assemble all the nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity; and the rest of the people shall not be cut off from the city. (Zech. 14:2)
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Matt. 22:7• 7And when the king heard of it he was wroth, and having sent his forces, destroyed those murderers and burned their city. (Matt. 22:7)
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Matt. 23:35‑38• 35so that all righteous blood shed upon the earth should come upon *you*, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.
 36Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation.
 37Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those that are sent unto her, how often would I have gathered thy children as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!
 38Behold, your house is left unto you desolate; (Matt. 23:35‑38)
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Matt. 24:27‑30• 27For as the lightning goes forth from the east and shines to the west, so shall be the coming of the Son of man.
 28For wherever the carcase is, there will be gathered the eagles.
 29But immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun shall be darkened, and the moon not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken.
 30And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven; and then shall all the tribes of the land lament, and they shall see the Son of man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. (Matt. 24:27‑30)
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Mark 13:14‑26• 14But when ye shall see the abomination of desolation standing where it should not, (he that reads let him consider it,) then let those in Judaea flee to the mountains;
 15and him that is upon the housetop not come down into the house, nor enter into it to take away anything out of his house;
 16and him that is in the field not return back to take his garment.
 17But woe to those that are with child and to those that give suck in those days!
 18And pray that it may not be in winter time;
 19for those days shall be distress such as there has not been the like since the beginning of creation which God created, until now, and never shall be;
 20and if the Lord had not cut short those days, no flesh should have been saved; but on account of the elect whom he has chosen, he has cut short those days.
 21And then if any one say to you, Lo, here is the Christ, or Lo, there, believe it not.
 22For false Christs and false prophets will arise, and give signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect.
 23But do *ye* take heed: behold, I have told you all things beforehand.
 24But in those days, after that distress, the sun shall be darkened and the moon shall not give its light;
 25and the stars of heaven shall be falling down, and the powers which are in the heavens shall be shaken;
 26and then shall they see the Son of man coming in clouds with great power and glory; (Mark 13:14‑26)
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Luke 19:41‑44• 41And as he drew near, seeing the city, he wept over it,
 42saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, even at least in this thy day, the things that are for thy peace: but now they are hid from thine eyes;
 43for days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall make a palisaded mound about thee, and shall close thee around, and keep thee in on every side,
 44and shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children in thee; and shall not leave in thee a stone upon a stone: because thou knewest not the season of thy visitation. (Luke 19:41‑44)
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Luke 21:22‑27• 22for these are days of avenging, that all the things that are written may be accomplished.
 23But woe to them that are with child and to them who give suck in those days, for there shall be great distress upon the land and wrath upon this people.
 24And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and be led captive into all the nations; and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the nations until the times of the nations be fulfilled.
 25And there shall be signs in sun and moon and stars, and upon the earth distress of nations in perplexity at the roar of the sea and rolling waves,
 26men ready to die through fear and expectation of what is coming on the habitable earth, for the powers of the heavens shall be shaken.
 27And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. (Luke 21:22‑27)
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Deut. 29:19‑29• 19and it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart, to sweep away the drunken with the thirsty.
 20Jehovah will not pardon him, but the anger of Jehovah and his jealousy will then smoke against that man, and all the curse shall be upon him that is written in this book; and Jehovah will blot out his name from under the heavens;
 21and Jehovah will separate him for mischief out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that is written in this book of the law.
 22And the generation to come, your children who shall rise up after you, and the foreigner that shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and its sicknesses wherewith Jehovah hath visited it,
 23that the whole ground thereof is brimstone and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, and no grass groweth in it, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboim, which Jehovah overthrew in his anger and in his fury:
 24even all nations shall say, Why has Jehovah done thus to this land? whence the heat of this great anger?
 25And men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of Jehovah the God of their fathers, which he had made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt;
 26and they went and served other gods, and bowed down to them, gods whom they knew not, and whom he had not assigned to them.
 27And the anger of Jehovah was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curse that is written in this book;
 28and Jehovah rooted them out of their land in anger, and in fury, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it appears this day.
 29The hidden things belong to Jehovah our God; but the revealed ones are ours and our children's for ever, to do all the words of this law. (Deut. 29:19‑29)
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Isa. 24:6• 6Therefore doth the curse devour the earth, and they that dwell therein are held guilty; therefore the inhabitants of the earth are consumed, and few men are left. (Isa. 24:6)
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Isa. 43:28• 28And I have profaned the princes of the sanctuary, and have given Jacob to the ban, and Israel to reproaches. (Isa. 43:28)
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Isa. 65:15• 15And ye shall leave your name for a curse unto mine elect; for the Lord Jehovah will slay thee, and will call his servants by another name: (Isa. 65:15)
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Dan. 9:11• 11And all Israel have transgressed thy law, even turning aside so as not to listen unto thy voice. And the curse hath been poured out upon us, and the oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God: for we have sinned against him. (Dan. 9:11)
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Zech. 5:3• 3And he said unto me, This is the curse that goeth forth over the face of the whole land: for every one that stealeth shall be cut off according to it on this side; and every one that sweareth shall be cut off according to it on that side. (Zech. 5:3)
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Zech. 14:12• 12And this shall be the plague wherewith Jehovah will smite all the peoples that have warred against Jerusalem: their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth. (Zech. 14:12)
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Mark 11:21• 21And Peter, remembering what Jesus had said, says to him, Rabbi, see, the fig-tree which thou cursedst is dried up. (Mark 11:21)
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Heb. 6:8• 8but bringing forth thorns and briars, it is found worthless and nigh to a curse, whose end is to be burned. (Heb. 6:8)
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Heb. 10:26‑31• 26For where we sin wilfully after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains any sacrifice for sins,
 27but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and heat of fire about to devour the adversaries.
 28Any one that has disregarded Moses' law dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses:
 29of how much worse punishment, think ye, shall he be judged worthy who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and esteemed the blood of the covenant, whereby he has been sanctified, common, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?
 30For we know him that said, To me belongs vengeance; *I* will recompense, saith the Lord: and again, The Lord shall judge his people.
 31It is a fearful thing falling into the hands of the living God. (Heb. 10:26‑31)
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Rev. 22:3,20‑21• 3And no curse shall be any more; and the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him,
 20He that testifies these things says, Yea, I come quickly. Amen; come, Lord Jesus.
 21The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with all the saints. (Rev. 22:3,20‑21)
• John the Baptist never fulfilled this promise, at least in the largeness of its import....With “Elijah” it will be different, for the Lord hath spoken the word, and He will perform it. Laboring, as the prophet will, under far greater difficulties than even the Baptist, the effects of his work, if not outwardly seen, will be greater; and in this way there will be once again a people prepared for the Lord on His return. (“Malachi 4” by E. Dennett)
• “Lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.” There will be judgments, as we have seen from verse 1; but the existence of a people whom God has called and prepared in grace will once again be the salt of the earth, and on their account the earth, or more probably the land, will be exempted from that which is here termed a curse—pure and unmingled judgment. (“Malachi 4” by E. Dennett)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earthc with a cursed.

JND Translation Notes

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Or "the land."
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Or "ban," as Isa. 34.5; 43.28; or "utter destruction," as Zech. 14.11.