Malachi 2 — The Holy Bible — King James Version

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Malachi Chapter 2

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Malachi

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In this chapter the Israelites are accused of having abandoned the required sacrifices, offering neither burnt offerings nor sin offerings. Their disobedience is presented as a clear sign that God will send a messenger to warn them of impending judgment. The chapter stresses the importance of keeping God's commandments and the serious consequences of ignoring them.

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(1) And now, O ye priests, this commandment is for you.

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Malachi 1:6 Jeremiah 13:13 Lamentations 4:13 Hosea 5:1

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Numbers 9:23 I John 2:7

(2) If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith the LORD of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings: yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay it to heart.

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Leviticus 26:14 Leviticus 26:15 Leviticus 26:16 Leviticus 26:17 Leviticus 26:18 Leviticus 26:19 Leviticus 26:20 Leviticus 26:21 Leviticus 26:22 Leviticus 26:23 Leviticus 26:24 Leviticus 26:25

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Galatians 3:13 Numbers 5:24 Numbers 5:27 Judges 5:23 II Samuel 16:10 Nehemiah 13:2

(3) 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.

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Joel 1:17 Malachi 2:9 I Samuel 2:29 I Samuel 2:30 I Kings 14:10 II Kings 9:36 II Kings 9:37 Job 20:7 Psalms 83:10 Jeremiah 8:2 Nahum 3:6 Luke 14:35

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Ezekiel 4:15 Genesis 26:4 Genesis 28:14 Jeremiah 33:26 Exodus 37:9 Jeremiah 8:2

(4) And ye shall know that I have sent this commandment unto you, that my covenant might be with Levi, saith the LORD of hosts.

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I Kings 22:25 Isaiah 26:11 Jeremiah 28:9 Ezekiel 33:33 Ezekiel 38:23 Luke 10:11 Isaiah 1:24 Isaiah 1:25 Isaiah 1:26 Isaiah 1:27 Isaiah 1:28 Isaiah 27:9

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Leviticus 26:42 I Samuel 4:4 II Kings 23:3 Malachi 2:8 Numbers 9:23 I John 2:7

(5) 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.

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Numbers 3:45 Numbers 8:15 Numbers 16:9 Numbers 16:10 Numbers 18:8 Numbers 18:9 Numbers 18:10 Numbers 18:11 Numbers 18:12 Numbers 18:13 Numbers 18:14 Numbers 18:15

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Jeremiah 42:11 Ezekiel 2:6 Leviticus 26:42 II Kings 23:3

(6) The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found in his lips: he walked with me in peace and equity, and did turn many away from iniquity.

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Psalms 37:30 Ezekiel 44:23 Ezekiel 44:24 Hosea 4:6 Matthew 22:16 Mark 12:14 Luke 20:21 II Timothy 2:15 II Timothy 2:16 Titus 1:7 Titus 1:8 Titus 1:9

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Leviticus 26:40 Exodus 34:7 Numbers 5:31 Numbers 14:18 Numbers 18:1 Psalms 32:5

(7) For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the LORD of hosts.

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Leviticus 10:11 Deuteronomy 17:8 Deuteronomy 17:9 Deuteronomy 17:10 Deuteronomy 17:11 Deuteronomy 21:5 Deuteronomy 24:8 II Chronicles 17:8 II Chronicles 17:9 II Chronicles 30:22 Ezra 7:10 Nehemiah 8:2

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Malachi 3:1 Zephaniah 2:3 Isaiah 6:5 Zechariah 1:3

(8) But ye are departed out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble at the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith the LORD of hosts.

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Psalms 18:21 Psalms 119:102 Isaiah 30:11 Isaiah 59:13 Jeremiah 17:5 Jeremiah 17:13 Ezekiel 44:10 Daniel 9:5 Daniel 9:6 Hebrews 3:12 Malachi 2:9 I Samuel 2:17

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Leviticus 26:42 I Samuel 4:4 II Kings 23:3 Malachi 2:4 Zechariah 1:3

(9) 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.

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Malachi 2:3 I Samuel 2:30 Proverbs 10:7 Daniel 12:2 Daniel 12:3 Micah 3:6 Micah 3:7 I Kings 22:28 Jeremiah 28:15 Jeremiah 28:16 Jeremiah 29:20 Jeremiah 29:21

(10) 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?

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Malachi 1:6 Joshua 24:3 Isaiah 51:2 Isaiah 63:16 Isaiah 64:8 Ezekiel 33:24 Matthew 3:9 Luke 1:73 Luke 3:8 John 8:39 John 8:53 John 8:56

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Isaiah 33:1 Genesis 1:27 I Samuel 1:8 I Samuel 20:8 Leviticus 26:42 II Kings 23:3

(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.

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Leviticus 18:24 Leviticus 18:25 Leviticus 18:26 Leviticus 18:27 Leviticus 18:28 Leviticus 18:29 Leviticus 18:30 Jeremiah 7:10 Ezekiel 18:13 Ezekiel 22:11 Revelation 21:8 Exodus 19:5

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Isaiah 33:1 Ezekiel 22:11 Luke 12:53 Isaiah 24:16 Genesis 36:2 Leviticus 18:17

(12) The LORD will cut off the man that doeth this, the master and the scholar, out of the tabernacles of Jacob, and him that offereth an offering unto the LORD of hosts.

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Leviticus 18:29 Leviticus 20:3 Numbers 15:30 Numbers 15:31 Joshua 23:12 Joshua 23:13 I Samuel 2:31 I Samuel 2:32 I Samuel 2:33 I Samuel 2:34 I Chronicles 25:8 Ezra 10:18

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Malachi 1:6 Zechariah 1:3

(13) And this have ye done again, covering the altar of the LORD with tears, with weeping, and with crying out, insomuch that he regardeth not the offering any more, or receiveth it with good will at your hand.

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Deuteronomy 15:9 I Samuel 1:9 I Samuel 1:10 II Samuel 13:19 II Samuel 13:20 Psalms 78:34 Psalms 78:35 Psalms 78:36 Psalms 78:37 Ecclesiastes 4:1 Deuteronomy 26:14 Nehemiah 8:9

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Matthew 10:40 John 13:20 Exodus 39:34 Romans 14:6

(14) Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the LORD hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.

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Malachi 1:6 Malachi 1:7 Malachi 3:8 Proverbs 30:20 Isaiah 58:3 Jeremiah 8:12 Malachi 3:5 Genesis 31:50 Judges 11:10 I Samuel 12:5 Jeremiah 42:5 Micah 1:2

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Isaiah 33:1 Isaiah 24:16 Leviticus 26:42 II Kings 23:3 Ezekiel 16:60 Hosea 6:7

(15) And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.

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Genesis 1:27 Genesis 2:20 Genesis 2:21 Genesis 2:22 Genesis 2:23 Genesis 2:24 Matthew 19:4 Matthew 19:5 Matthew 19:6 Mark 10:6 Mark 10:7 Mark 10:8

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Isaiah 33:1 Genesis 26:4 Jeremiah 33:26 Malachi 2:16 Zephaniah 2:3

(16) For the LORD, the God of Israel, saith that he hateth putting away: for one covereth violence with his garment, saith the LORD of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.

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Deuteronomy 24:1 Deuteronomy 24:2 Deuteronomy 24:3 Deuteronomy 24:4 Isaiah 50:1 Matthew 5:31 Matthew 5:32 Matthew 19:3 Matthew 19:4 Matthew 19:5 Matthew 19:6 Matthew 19:7

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Isaiah 33:1 Psalms 73:6 Leviticus 13:47 Malachi 2:15 Zechariah 1:3

(17) Ye have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied him? When ye say, Every one that doeth evil is good in the sight of the LORD, and he delighteth in them; or, Where is the God of judgment?

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Psalms 95:9 Psalms 95:10 Isaiah 1:14 Isaiah 7:13 Isaiah 43:24 Jeremiah 15:6 Ezekiel 16:43 Amos 2:13 Malachi 2:14 Malachi 1:6 Malachi 1:7 Malachi 3:8

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Jeremiah 12:5 Micah 6:3

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