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Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Malachi 3:11

The devourer — All kind of devourers, the locusts, the canker — worm, and the caterpillar, which though they are in incredible multitudes, yet a rebuke from God will check them all at once, as if they were but one. For your sakes — For your good. Your vine — Your vine shall carry their fruit 'till they are fully ripe.

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  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

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  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

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  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

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  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ גָעַרְתִּ֤י לָכֶם֙ בָּֽ † אֹכֵ֔ל וְ...

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  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

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  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

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  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

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