Malachi 2:11

Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the holiness of the LORD which he loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange god.

Judah hath dealt treacherously - namely, in respect to the Jewish wives who were put away (; also ; Malachi 2:15).

For Judah hath profaned the holiness of the Lord which he loved - by ill-treating the Israelites (namely, the wives), who were set apart as a people holy unto the Lord. "The holiness of the Lord" means "the holy seed" (: cf. , "Israel was holiness unto the Lord"). Or, "the holiness of the Lord" means His Holy ordinance and covenant, forbidding marriages with the pagan (). But "which he loved" seems rather to refer to the holy people Israel, whom God so gratuitously loved (), without merit on their part (). Therefore the former explanation is preferable.

And hath married the daughter of a strange god - (Ezra 9:1; ; , etc.)

The daughter of a strange god - i:e., women worshipping idols: as the worshipper in Scripture is regarded in the relation of a child to a father (, "Saying to a stock, Thou art my father"). The Jews, as Nehemiah found on his return to Jerusalem (), had "married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab."