What does Malachi 2:3 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Behold, I will corrupta your seed, and spread dung upon your faces, even the dung of your solemn feasts; and one shall take you away with it."
Verse Malachi 2:3. _BEHOLD, I WILL CORRUPT YOUR SEED_] So as to render it unfruitful. _Newcome_ translates, - "I will take away from you the shoulder." This was the part that belonged to the priest, L...
LO, I WILL REBUKE THE SEED FOR YOUR SAKE - o, i. e., that it should not grow. He who worketh by His sustaining will all the operations of nature, would at His will withhold them. Neither priests nor L...
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), the other with the people (Malachi 2:10)....
BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterismos_ App-6. CORRUPT. rebuke; as in Malachi 3:11.Psalms 106:9; Isaiah 17:13. Hebrew gaar. Occurs fourteen times. Always rendered rebuke" except here, and Jeremiah 29:2...
_corrupt_ Rather, REPROVE, margin A.V.; or REBUKE, R.V. Comp. ch. Malachi 3:11: "I will rebuke (the same word) the devourer." God will wither with His rebuke the seed so that it shall not germinate, o...
_THIS COMMANDMENT IS FOR YOU - MALACHI 2:1-6:_ The priests must accept and respect God's commandments. These teachings applied to them just as they applied to the people. The priests had not done well...
BEHOLD, I WILL CORRUPT YOUR SEED, &C.— _Behold, I am about to take away the shoulder from you_ [namely, the right shoulder, which, by the law, was the peculiar portion of the priests]; _and to throw t...
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...
Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces, even the dung of your solemn feasts; and one shall take you away with it. BEHOLD, I WILL CORRUPT YOUR SEED - "corrupt" [ go`eer (H...
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....
הִנְנִ֨י גֹעֵ֤ר לָכֶם֙ אֶת ־הַ זֶּ֔רַע וְ זֵרִ֤יתִי פֶ֨רֶשׁ֙ עַל ־פְּנֵיכֶ֔ם פֶּ֖רֶשׁ חַגֵּיכֶ֑ם וְ...
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 pri...
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...
Behold, I will corrupt (d) your seed, and spread dung upon your faces, [even] the (e) dung of your solemn feasts; and [one] shall take you away with it. (d) The seed you sow will come to no profit....
_Shoulder. I will cast away the shoulder, which in the law was appointed to be your portion, and fling it at you in my anger: and will reject both you and your festivals like dung. (Challoner) --- Heb...
We have an authority in the opening of this message, to refer it to the priests of the Jewish dispensation. But, I think, without violence, though the priests, as leaders in the temple service, are fi...
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...
He confirms here again what he had said in the last verse, — that they would perceive God’s curse in want and poverty. The curse of God is any kind of calamity; for as God declares especially his favo...
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...
BEHOLD, I WILL CORRUPT YOUR SEED,.... Or, "the seed for you" r; that is, for your sake, as Kimchi and Ben Melech explain it; meaning the seed they cast into the earth, which the Lord threatens to corr...
Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces, [even] the dung of your solemn feasts; and [one] shall take you away with it. Ver. 3. _Behold, I will corrupt your seed_] And so mar...
_O ye priests, this commandment is for you_ Or _decree_, rather, for properly speaking no commandment is here given to the priests, only punishment is denounced upon them if they did not repent. _If y...
CONCLUSION OF THE REBUKE TO THE PRIESTS...
Malachi 2:3; Malachi 2:3 corrupt: Or, reprove Malachi 2:3; Malachi 2:3 spread: _ Heb._ scatter Malachi 2:3; Malachi 2:3 one shall take you away with it: Or, it shall take you away to it...
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...
BEHOLD; note it well, and consider. I WILL CORRUPT YOUR SEED; take away the prolific virtue and strength of it, that it shall bring forth none or little fruit: your seed you make plentiful, but you ca...
Malachi 2:3 rebuke H1605 (H8802) descendants H2233 spread H2219 (H8765) refuse H6569 faces H6440 refuse H6569 feasts H2282 away H5375 (H8804) I will - Joel 1:17 corrupt - or reprove spread - Heb. sc...
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...
_And now, O ye priests, this commandment is for you._ SPIRITUAL REFORMATION 1. The nature of the spiritual reformation required. It involves two things, a practical application of the Word of God: a...
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...
CRITICAL NOTES.] The charge is still urged against the priests, who are warned if they do not reform they will be deprived of enjoyments, and made objects of shame. MALACHI 2:2. A] Lit. _the_ curse d...
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...
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 4:13; 1 Kings 14:10; 1 Samuel 2:29; 1 Samuel 2:30; 2 Kings 9:36; 2 Kings 9:37; Jeremiah 8:2; Job 20:7; Joel 1:17; Luke 14:35;...
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...
I will corrupt — I will take away the prolific virtue and strength of it, that it shall bring forth no fruit. Spread dung — It is an expression of the greatest contempt. Of your solemn feasts — Your m...