Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Malachi 2:9
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?
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?
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...
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...
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...
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),
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....
_been partial_ Lit. HAD RESPECT OF PERSONS. R.V....
_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...
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...
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...
2 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...
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...
II. (1-9) The decree against the priests....
THEREFORE. — I am no longer bound by the covenant I made with the tribe of Levi, and, instead of “life and peace,” I give you contempt, &c. IN THE LAW — _i.e.,_ in the administration of justice. The a...
וְ גַם ־אֲנִ֞י נָתַ֧תִּי אֶתְכֶ֛ם נִבְזִ֥ים ו
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...
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...
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 prie...
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...
_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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
CONCLUSION OF THE REBUKE TO THE PRIESTS...
Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base, an object of contempt and loathing, BEFORE ALL THE PEOPLE, ACCORDING AS YE HAVE NOT KEPT MY WAYS, in the same degree as they had transgressed, BUT...
Malachi 2:9; Malachi 2:9 have been partial: Or, lifted up the face against. _Heb._ accepted faces...
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...
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...
Malachi 2:9 made H5414 (H8804) contemptible H959 (H8737) base H8217 people H5971 Because H6310 kept H8104 ...
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...
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...
_I also made you contemptible._ PULPITS SINKING INTO POPULAR CONTEMPT The priesthood of Israel is referred to. No greater calamity could happen to a community than this. I. A calamity to all partie...
_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...
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
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 self...
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 Go...
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...
1 Kings 22:28; 1 Samuel 2:30; Daniel 12:2; Daniel 12:3; Deuteronomy 1
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...