(10-17) The prophet now rebukes the two great sins of the nation at this time: (1) marriage with idolatresses; (2) divorce of the first (Israelitish) wife. He introduces this rebuke by a general statement, similar to that of Malachi 1:2.
Verse Malachi 2:10. _HAVE WE NOT ALL ONE FATHER?_] From this to Malachi 2:16 the prophet censures the _marriages_ of _Israelites_ with _strange_ _women_, which the law had _forbidden_, Deuteronomy 7:...
HAVE WE NOT ALL ONE FATHER? - o HATH NOT ONE GOD CREATED US? - Malachi turns abruptly to another offence, in which also the priests set an evil example, the capricious dismissal of their Hebrew wives...
THE REBUKE OF THE SOCIAL CONDITIONS CHAPTER 2:10-17 The priests were corrupt, and with their bad example the people were likewise corrupt. It is the prophet who speaks in verse 10. The One Father was...
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...
Israel further repudiates Yahweh's love by the common practice of the divorce of native wives (Malachi 2:10; Malachi 2:13) in order to marry foreign women (Malachi 2:11, _cf._ Ezra 9 f.,...
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),
HAVE WE NOT ALL. CREATED US?. [Ye say] Have we not, &c. as in Malachi 2:14 Figure of speech _Paroemia_. See John 8:33 Joh 39:41 &c. GOD. Hebrew. _El_. TREACHEROUSLY: or, faithlessly. Used of faithle...
_one father_ i.e. God, as the parallelism suggests. Comp. John 8:41. The reference to Abraham, though of course admissible (Matthew 3:9; John 8:39), is less satisfactory. _his brother_ Out of the comm...
Malachi 2:10-16. Rebuke of the People for Heathen Marriages and Divorce The transition from the former section is less abrupt than at first sight it seems to be. The people at large are now addressed...
_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...
HAVE WE NOT ALL ONE FATHER? &C.— Here a new section begins, wherein the prophet severely reproves the people for marrying strange wives, which was much practised in Ezra's and Nehemiah's time, who exp...
GOD DESPISES INFIDELITY. Malachi 2:10-16 RV. Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us? why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, profaning the covenant of our fathers?...
Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us? why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, by profaning the covenant of our fathers? HAVE WE NOT ALL ONE FATHER? HATH NOT O...
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...
הֲ לֹ֨וא אָ֤ב אֶחָד֙ לְ כֻלָּ֔נוּ הֲ
4. THE CRUELTY OF DIVORCE Malachi 2:10 In his fourth section, upon his countrymen's frequent divorce of their native wives in order to marry into the influential families of their half-heathen neighb...
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...
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...
Have we not all one (n) father? hath not one God created us? why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, by profaning the covenant of (o) our fathers? (n) The Prophet accuses the ingr...
_Brother, in distress, 2 Esdras v. 1. St. Jerome mentions the tradition of the Jews, which supposed that the captives at their return dismissed their wives, and married young ones, though strangers, v...
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 accuses the Jews here of another crime — that they were perfidious towards God and their own brethren, and departed from that pre-eminence into which God had raised them, when they were ch...
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...
HAVE WE NOT ALL ONE FATHER?.... Whether this is understood of Adam the first man, of whose blood all nations of the earth are made, and who in the same sense is the father of all living, as Eve was th...
Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us? why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, by profaning the covenant of our fathers? Ver. 10. _Have we not all one father?_]...
_Have we not all one father?_ Here a new section begins, wherein the prophet severely censures the intermarriages of Israelites with women of another country, which Moses had forbidden, Deuteronomy 7:...
Have we not all one Father? Hath not one God created us? These questions, with the statement they contain, the prophet places at the head of his discussion, to remind the Jews that they were still, in...
AGAINST DIVORCES AND MARRIAGES WITH HEATHEN WIVES...
10-17 Corrupt practices are the fruit of corrupt principles; and he who is false to his God, will not be true to his fellow mortals. In contempt of the marriage covenant, which God instituted, the Je...
HAVE WE, we Jews, NOT ALL ONE FATHER? either Abraham, or Jacob, (not Adam here intended,) with whom God made the covenant by which the posterity was made a peculiar people, separated from other nation...
Malachi 2:10 one H259 Father H1 one H259 God H410 created H1254 (H8804) treacherously H898 (H8799) one...
YHWH'S CAUSE AGAINST HIS PEOPLE AS A WHOLE BECAUSE THEY HAVE MARRIED FOREIGN SYNCRETISTIC WIVES (MALACHI 2:10). It should be noted here that Malachi now once again brings not only the priests, but all...
HAVE WE NOT ALL ONE Compare (Acts 17:24). In both instances the reference is to creation, not the new birth....
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...
_Have we not all one Father?_ ONE FATHER I. God is not only the Creator, but the common Father of mankind. This relationship implies two things: a resemblance in nature; and the existence of parenta...
_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 2:10 Third Dispute: Why Are the People Faithless in Marriage? Malachi now describes Israel’s infidelity, which dishonors God. Malachi condemns two marital offenses: intermarria...
CRITICAL NOTES. Malachi 2:10.] A fresh section, “the condemnation of marriages with heathen women (Malachi 2:10), and of the frivolous dissolution of marriages with Israelitish women, which was the na...
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 Corinthians 6:6; 1 Corinthians 8:6; 1 Thessalonians 4:6; Acts 17:25;...
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...
One father — Abraham, or Jacob, with whom God made the covenant by which their posterity were made a peculiar people. Created us — The prophet speaks of that great and gracious work of God, creating t...