Malachi 1
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The Lord’s Love for Israel
1A pronouncement: # 1:1 Is 13:1; Zch 9:1; 12:1
The word of the Lord # 1:1 Hs 1:1; Jl 1:1; Mc 1:1; Zph 1:1 to Israel through # 1:1 Jr 37:2; Hg 1:1 Malachi. # 1:1 = My Messenger
2‘I have loved you,’ # 1:2 Dt 4:37; 7:6–8; 10:14–15; Neh 13:26; Ps 78:68 says the Lord.
Yet you ask, ‘How have you loved us? ’
‘Wasn’t Esau Jacob’s brother? ’ # 1:2 Gn 25:25–26; 36:19 This is the Lord’s declaration. ‘Even so, I loved Jacob, 3but I hated Esau. # 1:3 Gn 25:23; Rm 9:10–13 I turned his mountains into a wasteland, and gave his inheritance to the desert jackals.’ # 1:3 Is 34:5–17; Jr 49:7–22; Ezk 35:1–15
4Though Edom says, ‘We have been devastated, but we will rebuild # 1:4 Or will return and build the ruins,’ the Lord of Armies says this: ‘They may build, but I will demolish. They will be called a wicked country # 1:4 Mal 3:12,15 and the people the Lord has cursed # 1:4 Or Lord is angry with for ever. # 1:4 Is 34:5–17; Jr 49:17–18; Mal 1:14; 2:2; 3:9; 4:6 5Your own eyes will see this, and you yourselves will say, “The Lord is great, even beyond # 1:5 Or great over the borders of Israel.” # 1:5 Ps 67:1–7; 72:8–11; Ezk 39:7; Zch 12:1–10; Rm 11:11–12
Disobedience of the Priests
6‘A son honours his father, and a servant his master. But if I am a father, where is my honour? And if I am a master, where is your fear of me? # 1:6 1Sm 2:30; Dn 5:23; Hg 1:8 says the Lord of Armies to you priests, who despise my name.’
Yet you ask, ‘How have we despised your name? ’
7‘By presenting defiled food on my altar.’
‘How have we defiled you? ’ you ask. # 1:7 Ezk 22:26
When you say, ‘The Lord’s table is contemptible.’ # 1:7 Ezk 41:22; 44:16
8‘When you present a blind animal for sacrifice, is it not wrong? And when you present a lame or sick animal, is it not wrong? # 1:8 Lv 22:18–25; Dt 15:21; 17:1 Bring it to your governor! Would he be pleased with you or show you favour? ’ asks the Lord of Armies. 9‘And now plead for God’s favour. Will he be gracious to us? # 1:9 1Sm 13:12; Pr 19:6; Dn 9:13 Since this has come from your hands, will he show any of you favour? ’ # 1:9 Nm 6:25–26 asks the Lord of Armies. 10‘I wish one of you would shut the temple doors, # 1:10 2Ch 28:24 so that you would no longer kindle a useless fire on my altar! # 1:10 Pr 1:17; Is 1:14 I am not pleased with you,’ says the Lord of Armies, ‘and I will accept # 1:10 Lv 22:19–21 no offering from your hands. # 1:10 Is 1:10–17; Jr 6:20; Am 5:21–23; Mc 6:6–8
11‘My name will be great among the nations, # 1:11 Ps 113:3; Is 45:6; 59:19; Mt 8:11 from the rising of the sun to its setting. Incense # 1:11 Or Burnt offerings and pure offerings will be presented in my name in every place because my name will be great among the nations,’ # 1:11 Or is great . . . are presented . . . is great says the Lord of Armies.
12‘But you are profaning it # 1:12 Lv 22:2; Ezk 13:19; 22:26; 36:20–23; Mal 2:10–11 when you say, “The Lord’s table is defiled, and its product, its food, is contemptible.” 13You also say, “Look, what a nuisance! ” And you scorn # 1:13 Lit blow at it,’ # 1:13 Alt Hb tradition reads me,# 1:13 1Sm 2:29 says the Lord of Armies. ‘You bring stolen, # 1:13 Or injured,# 1:13 2Sm 24:24 lame, or sick animals. You bring this as an offering! Am I to accept that from your hands? ’ asks the Lord.
14‘The deceiver is cursed who has an acceptable male in his flock and makes a vow but sacrifices a defective animal to the Lord. # 1:14 Lv 22:18–25; 27:9–10; Nm 30:2; Dt 23:21–23; Ec 5:4–7 For I am a great King,’ says the Lord of Armies, ‘and my name will be feared among the nations.
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