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Verse Malachi 2:9. _THEREFORE HAVE I ALSO MADE YOU CONTEMPTIBLE_] The
people despised you because they saw that you acted contrary to your
functions. This has happened repeatedly since, to several _c...
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THEREFORE HAVE I MADE YOU CONTEMPTIBLE - They had said in their hearts
Malachi 1:7, “The table of the Lord is contemptible.” So God would
requite them “measure for measure.” Yet not only so, but in th...
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THE REBUKE OF THE PRIESTS
CHAPTER 1:6-2:9
The priests, the religious leaders of the people, are described first
in their evil ways, and rebuked. But the rebuke includes the entire
people, for it is t...
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MALACHI 1:6 TO MALACHI 2:16. ISRAEL'S DISREGARD OF THIS LOVE. This
section falls into two parts, one dealing with the priesthood (Malachi
1:6 to Malachi 2:9), the other with the people (Malachi 2:10)....
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PEOPLE. peoples: i.e. the tribes.
ACCORDING AS. because, or, in so far as.
BEEN PARTIAL. had respect of persons. Compare James 2:4.
IN. in [administering) the law....
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_been partial_ Lit. HAD RESPECT OF PERSONS. R.V....
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_THEY DEPARTED FROM GOD'S WAY - MALACHI 2:7-12:_ The priests of
Malachi's day talked a very religious talk but they did not obey God.
The priest should have been faithful to God. They represented Him...
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ISRAEL IS UNFAITHFUL. Malachi 1:6 to Malachi 2:9
RV. A son honoreth his father, and a servant his master; if then I am
a father, whereis mine honor? and if I am a master, where is my fear?
saith Jehov...
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My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him
for the fear wherewith he feared me, and was afraid before my name.
He describes the promises, and also the conditions of the cove...
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The Degeneracy of the Priesthood
1. A reminder to the priests that they are to blame for the laxity
denounced in Malachi 1:13; Malachi 1:14. They are responsible for the
offering of fit victims, w...
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MY *MESSENGER
MALACHI
_GORDON CHURCHYARD_
CHAPTER 2
V1 ‘And now, priests, this command is for you. V2 If you do not
listen (to me)’ says the *LORD of Everything, ‘then I will send a
*curse on you....
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II.
(1-9) The decree against the priests....
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וְ גַם ־אֲנִ֞י נָתַ֧תִּי אֶתְכֶ֛ם
נִבְזִ֥ים וּ שְׁפָלִ֖ים לְ כָל ־הָ
עָ֑ם כְּ פִ֗י...
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3. THE PRIESTHOOD OF KNOWLEDGE
Malachi 2:1
In the third section of his book "Malachi" addresses himself to the
priests. He charges them not only with irreverence and slovenliness in
their discharge o...
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THE TRANSGRESSION OF THE COVENANT
Malachi 2:1-17
As a contrast to the disgraceful attitude which the prophet had
described as characteristic of the priesthood, he paints the picture
of the noble pri...
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In dealing with the priests, he declared their corruption, and
indicated the line of their punishment. He charged them with
profanity, in that they had despised the name of Jehovah; with
sacrilege, in...
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_People. If priests comply not with these high functions, they are
despicable here, and condemned to eternal torments, Jude 11.
(Worthington) --- Accepted. Hebrew, "raised up faces," instead of
reprov...
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The Prophet is commissioned again in these verses, to follow up his
former reproofs. The low and impoverished state of the Church, in the
ordinances, which rightly used to lead to Christ, are real ble...
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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 m...
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The Prophet draws this conclusion — that the priests in vain gloried
in the honor of their office, for they had ceased to be the priests of
God. We may now return to the main point.
We perceive what t...
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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 o...
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THEREFORE HAVE I ALSO MADE YOU CONTEMPTIBLE AND BASE,.... When their
city and temple were destroyed by the Romans, and they were carried
captive by them, and became a taunt and a proverb in all places...
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Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the
people, according as ye have not kept my ways, but have been partial
in the law.
Ver. 9. _Therefore have I also made you contemptib...
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_For the priest's lips should keep knowledge_ Preserve and store up,
so as to distribute it. It is his duty to understand the meaning of
the law of God: and people ought to resort to him for instructi...
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CONCLUSION OF THE REBUKE TO THE PRIESTS...
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Malachi 2:9; Malachi 2:9
have been partial:
Or, lifted up the face against. _Heb._ accepted faces...
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1-9 What is here said of the covenant of priesthood, is true of the
covenant of grace made with all believers, as spiritual priests. It is
a covenant of life and peace; it assures all believers of al...
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THEREFORE, because you have corrupted the covenant of Levi, and have
dishonoured me, and made my sacrifices contemptible, HAVE I ALSO MADE
YOU CONTEMPTIBLE AND BASE; I have left you under the contempt...
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Malachi 2:9 made H5414 (H8804) contemptible H959 (H8737) base H8217
people H5971 Because H6310 kept H8104 (H8802) ways H1870 partiality
H5375 (H8802) H6440 law H8451
made - Malachi 2:3; 1 Samuel 2:30...
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CONTENTS: The message to the priests concerning their sins. The evils
among the people.
CHARACTERS: God, Holy Spirit, Malachi.
CONCLUSION: Woe to those appointed to be God's mouth to the people,
but...
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Malachi 2:1. _Oh ye priests if ye will not hear the Lord will send a
curse upon you._ Sins in the sanctuary are always put among the most
grievous sins. Eli's sons lost the ark, the Hebrew priests fil...
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_That My covenant might be with Levi._
THE MINISTER OF DIVINE TRUTH
I. As he always should be.
1. A man divinely called.
2. A man of profound reverence.
3. A man of moral truthfulness.
4. A man...
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MALACHI—NOTE ON MALACHI 2:2 Since the priests failed to guard the
temple’s purity, the Lord threatens to punish them. Because they
“despised” (Malachi 1:6) the Lord’s NAME, they will be DESPISED
AND A...
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CRITICAL NOTES.
Malachi 2:6.] Levi preserved this fear in office and life. TRUTH]
Instruction in the law was in truth. INIQUITY] No injustice was
practised in his life, nor was truth perverted by sel...
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EXPOSITION
MALACHI 2:1
_§ 4. For these derelictions of duty the priests are threatened with
punishment._
MALACHI 2:1
THIS COMMANDMENT. The threat or announcement is called a commandment,
because G...
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Now He addresses Himself to the priests.
And now, O ye priests, this commandment is for you. And if you will
not hear, and if you will not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my
name, saith the LORD...
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1 Kings 22:28; 1 Samuel 2:30; Daniel 12:2; Daniel 12:3; Deuteronomy
1:17; Ezekiel 13:12; Ezekiel 13:21; Galatians 2:6; Jeremiah 28:15;...
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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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Have been partial — You have perverted the law to please great men,
or to serve some unworthy design. When we inquire into "the reasons of
the contempt of the clergy," ought we to forget this?...