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Verse Malachi 1:2. WAS _NOT ESAU JACOB'S BROTHER?_] Have I not shown a
greater _partiality_ to the _Israelites_ than I have to the
_Edomites_?
_I LOVED JACOB_] My _love to Jacob_ has been proved by g...
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I HAVE LOVED YOU, SAITH THE LORD - What a volume of God’s relations
to us in two simple words, “I-have-loved you” . So would not God
speak, unless He still loved. “I have loved and do love you,” is
th...
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ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS
1. Jehovah's Love for His People
CHAPTER 1:1-5
The message of Malachi begins with the sublime statement, “I have
loved you, saith Jehovah.” It is the message to Israel. This...
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YAHWEH'S LOVE FOR ISRAEL. This truth is questioned by some of the
prophet's contemporaries, who are then reminded of the contrasted
fortunes of the nations descended from Jacob and Esau. These peoples...
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I HAVE LOVED Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 7:8; Deuteronomy
10:15; Deuteronomy 33:3).
SAITH. hath said. Quoted in R
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_GOD CONTINUED TO LOVE HIS PEOPLE -- MALACHI 1:1-5:_ The Jews had
become disobedient in their sacrifices and in their living. Malachi
pictured the fact that God continued to love them even in their
re...
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DISCOURSE: 1266
THE SOVEREIGNTY OF GOD’S GRACE
Malachi 1:2. _I have loved you, saith the Lord. Yet ye say, Wherein
hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob’s brother? saith the Lord:
yet I loved Jacob,...
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YET I LOVED JACOB, &C.— These words are not to be taken according to
modern ideas; for in Scripture, when love and hatred are spoken of
God, are set in opposition to each other, and applied to his
dis...
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GOD LOVES ISRAEL. Malachi 1:2-5
RV. I have loved you, saith Jehovah. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou
loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? saith Jehovah: yet I loved
Jacob; but Esau I hated, and made...
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I have loved you, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved
us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? saith the LORD: yet I loved Jacob,
I HAVE LOVED YOU - above other men; nay, even above the ot...
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WHEREIN HAST thou LOVED US?] i.e. 'Wherein hast thou shewn thy love?'
So in Malachi 1:3, I HATED ESAU means 'I have shewn myself hostile to
Esau' 'Esau' and 'Jacob' here stand for the nations Edom and...
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Jehovah's Love and His People's Ingratitude
1. Burden] RM 'oracle'; properly, 'that which is lifted up,' hence in
this connexion 'utterance'; but with play on other meaning 'burden' in
Jeremiah 23...
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MY *MESSENGER
MALACHI
_GORDON CHURCHYARD_
CHAPTER 1
V1 The *LORD sent this message to Israel by means of his servant
Malachi.
NOTES
Verse 1 Malachi wrote his book in the Hebrew language. The He...
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I HAVE LOVED — _i.e.,_ shown abundant proof of my love. The prophet
goes on to show how God has shown so great proofs of His love.
WAS NOT ESAU JACOB’S BROTHER? — And would not one suppose from
that...
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אָהַ֤בְתִּי אֶתְכֶם֙ אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֔ה
וַ אֲמַרְתֶּ֖ם...
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Malachi 2:1; Malachi 3:1; Malachi 4:1
PROPHECY WITHIN THE LAW
"MALACHI" 1-4
BENEATH this title we may gather all the eight sections of the Book of
"Malachi." They contain many things of perennial i...
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1. GOD'S LOVE FOR ISRAEL AND HATRED OF EDOM
Malachi 1:2
He begins with God's Love, and in answer to the disappointed people's
cry, "Wherein hast Thou loved us?" he does not, as the older prophets
did...
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SINCERITY OF WORSHIP SOUGHT
Malachi 1:1-14
The love referred to in these opening Malachi 1:1-5, was exemplified
in the divine choice, that through Israel the whole world might be
blessed. Hate does n...
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After the introductory word, which really constitutes the title page
of the prophecy, the message begins almost abruptly with the tender
and sensitive word of Jehovah to His people, "I have loved you....
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I have loved you, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, (b) Wherein hast thou
loved us? [Was] not Esau Jacob's brother? saith the LORD: yet I loved
Jacob,
(b) Which declares their great ingratitude that did no...
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Loved us. So they thought, (Theodoret) and perhaps spoke. (Haydock)
--- Jacob. I have preferred his posterity, to make them my chosen
people, and to load them with my blessings, without any merit on t...
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Every word in this address of the Lord is weighty, and deserves the
closest attention. Reader, pray observe how the Lord opens his
discourse, with referring to his love. Yes! this is the source, the
f...
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Lectures on the Minor Prophets.
W. Kelly.
The Lord has not been pleased to give us much express information of
the prophets in general, with the exception of Isaiah, Jeremiah, and
Daniel, and in a me...
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I am constrained by the context to read all these verses; for the
sense cannot be otherwise completed. God expostulates here with a
perverse and an ungrateful people, because they doubly deprived him...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 1 THROUGH 4.
The prophecy of Malachi deals with the people brought back from the
captivity of Babylon, and is most important as shewing the moral
condition of...
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I HAVE LOVED YOU, SAITH THE LORD,.... Which appeared of old, by
choosing them, above all people upon the face of the earth, to be his
special and peculiar people; by bestowing peculiar favours and
ble...
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I have loved you, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved
us? [Was] not Esau Jacob's brother? saith the LORD: yet I loved Jacob,
Ver. 2. _I have loved you, saith the Lord_] Thou hast love...
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_The burden of the Lord_ The word _burden_ is here, as often
elsewhere, equivalent to prophecy; _to Israel_ To those of all the
tribes that were returned from captivity. _I have loved you, saith the
L...
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GOD'S PECULIAR LOVE FOR ISRAEL...
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I have loved you, saith the Lord, Jehovah placing this at the head of
His message as a fundamental, absolute fact. YET YE SAY, in expressing
their doubts of His sincerity, WHEREIN HAST THOU LOVED US?...
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1-5 All advantages, either as to outward circumstances, or spiritual
privileges, come from the free love of God, who makes one to differ
from another. All the evils sinners feel and fear, are the just...
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I HAVE LOVED YOU: God asserts his ancient love, that which he had in
many generations past showed: I have, time out of mind, yea, from
before the birth of your father Jacob, and in truth before Abraha...
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Malachi 1:2 loved H157 (H8804) says H5002 (H8803) LORD H3068 say H559
(H8804) loved H157 ...
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THE LOVE OF YHWH FOR JACOB, AND HIS HATRED FOR ESAU (MALACHI 1:2).
YHWH now makes a positive affirmation of love for His people Israel
(Jacob). This love had often been affirmed by previous prophets....
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Malachi 1:2
I. There is no impiety in this inquiry. Granted that God may prefer
whom He will; that it is for Him, if it please Him and as it please
Him, to put one man before another; yet, if in so do...
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CONTENTS: Jehovah's love for Israel. The sins of the priests and
hypocrisy of the people.
CHARACTERS: God, Malachi, Jacob, Esau.
CONCLUSION: God would have His people know that He loves them,
therefo...
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Malachi 1:1. _The word of the Lord by Malachi,_ my angel, my
messenger, or the messenger of the Lord. Malachi flourished after the
second temple was built, and about four hundred and twenty years
befo...
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_was not Esau Jacob’s brother?_
saith the Lord: yet I loved Jacob, and I hated Esau, and laid his
mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.
JACOB
From the fate of the hunte...
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MALACHI—NOTE ON MALACHI 1:2 First Dispute: Are God’s People Still
Special in His Sight? Malachi answers the doubts of the people who
question God’s love because of Israel’s many current problems....
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CRITICAL NOTES.] BURDEN] (Massa) A heavy vision full of toil and
weight. “What is the burden of the Lord?” was asked scoffingly
from the prophets. As a punishment for the blasphemy of the people,
God...
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EXPOSITION
VERSE 1:1-2:9
Part I. REPROOF OF THE PRIESTS FOR NEGLECT OF DIVINE SERVICE.
MALACHI 1:1
§ 1_. Heading and author. _THE BURDEN ...
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Now let's turn to Malachi, the final word of God in the Old Testament
period. God's final message before the coming of Jesus Christ.
Who Malachi was, where he came from, we know nothing. Some believe...
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Deuteronomy 10:15; Deuteronomy 32:8; Deuteronomy 7:6; Genesis 25:23;...
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VITAL QUESTIONS
Malachi 1:1; Malachi 2:1; Malachi 3:1
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
The Book of Malachi presents questions asked by God. In response,
instead of a direct answer, the chosen people, Israel, ask...
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Loved you — Both personally considered and relatively, in
progenitors. Us — Who have been captives, and groaned under it all
our days 'till of late. Was not Esau — Did not one father beget
them, and o...