Malachi 2

Verse 1

WEB “Now, you priests, this commandment is for you.

KJV And now, O ye priests, this commandment is for you.

TSK And now, O ye priests, this commandment is for you.: mal 1:6, jer 13:13, la 4:13, ho 5:1

Verse 2

WEB If you will not listen, and if you will not lay it to heart, to give glory to my name,” says Yahweh of Armies, “then will I send the curse on you, and I will curse your blessings. Indeed, I have cursed them already, because you do not lay it to heart.

KJV 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.

TSK ye will not hear: le 26:14-46, de 28:15-68, de 30:17,18, ps 81:11,12, isa 30:8-13, jer 6:16-20, jer 13:17, jer 25:4-9, jer 34:17, eze 3:7, zec 1:3-6, zec 7:11-14; if ye will not lay: isa 42:25, isa 47:7, isa 57:11; to give: jos 7:19, jer 13:16, lu 17:18, 1pe 4:11, re 14:7, re 16:9; and I: de 28:16-18,53-57, ps 69:22, ps 109:7-15, ho 4:7-10, ho 9:11-14, hag 1:6,9, hag 2:16,17, lu 23:28-30; I have cursed: mal 3:9

Verse 3

WEB Behold, I will rebuke your seed, and will spread dung on your faces, even the dung of your feasts; and you will be taken away with it.

KJV 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.

TSK I will: joe 1:17; corrupt: mal 2:9, 1sa 2:29,30, 1ki 14:10, 2ki 9:36,37, job 20:7, ps 83:10, jer 8:2, na 3:6, lu 14:35, 1co 4:13

Verse 4

WEB You will know that I have sent this commandment to you, that my covenant may be with Levi,” says Yahweh of Armies.

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

TSK ye: 1ki 22:25, isa 26:11, jer 28:9, eze 33:33, eze 38:23, lu 10:11; that my: isa 1:24-28, isa 27:9, eze 20:38-41, eze 44:9-16, mt 3:12, joh 15:2

Verse 5

WEB “My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him that he might be reverent toward me; and he was reverent toward me, and stood in awe of my name.

KJV 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.

TSK covenant: nu 3:45, nu 8:15, nu 16:9,10, nu 18:8-24, nu 25:12,13, de 33:8-10, ps 106:30,31, eze 34:25, eze 37:26; I gave: ex 32:26-29, de 33:8-11

Verse 6

WEB The law of truth was in his mouth, and unrighteousness was not found in his lips. He walked with me in peace and uprightness, and turned many away from iniquity.

KJV 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.

TSK law: ps 37:30, eze 44:23,24, ho 4:6, mt 22:16, mr 12:14, lu 20:21, 2ti 2:15,16, tit 1:7-9, re 14:5; he walked: ge 5:21-24, ge 6:9, ge 17:1, lu 1:6; and did: jer 23:22, da 12:3, lu 1:16,17, ac 26:18, 1th 1:9,10, jas 5:19,20

Verse 7

WEB For the priest’s lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth; for he is the messenger of Yahweh of Armies.

KJV 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.

TSK the priest's: le 10:11, de 17:8-11, de 21:5, de 24:8, 2ch 17:8,9, 2ch 30:22, ezr 7:10, ne 8:2-8, jer 15:19, jer 18:18, hag 2:11-13, 2ti 2:24,25; the messenger: mal 3:1, isa 42:19, isa 44:26, hag 1:13, joh 13:20, joh 20:21, ac 16:17, 2co 5:20, ga 4:14, 1th 4:8

Verse 8

WEB But you have turned aside out of the way. You have caused many to stumble in the law. You have corrupted the covenant of Levi,” says Yahweh of Armies.

KJV 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.

TSK ye are: ps 18:21, ps 119:102, isa 30:11, isa 59:13, jer 17:5,13, eze 44:10, da 9:5,6, heb 3:12; ye have caused: mal 2:9, 1sa 2:17,24,30, isa 9:16, jer 18:15, jer 23:11-15, mt 15:2-5, lu 11:45,46, ro 2:19-24, ro 14:21; ye have corrupted: mal 2:5,10, le 21:15, ne 13:29

Verse 9

WEB “Therefore I have also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according to the way you have not kept my ways, but have had respect for persons in the law.

KJV 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.

TSK made: mal 2:3, 1sa 2:30, pr 10:7, da 12:2,3, mic 3:6,7; before: 1ki 22:28, jer 28:15,16, jer 29:20-22,31,32, eze 13:12-16,21, mr 7:13,14, lu 20:45-47; but: mal 2:8, mt 5:21,22,27,28,33-37,43,44, mt 19:17,18, mt 23:16-24, mr 7:8-13, lu 10:29, lu 11:42, ro 7:7-10; have been partial in : de 1:17, ga 2:6

Verse 10

WEB Don’t we all have one father? Hasn’t one God created us? Why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, profaning the covenant of our fathers?

KJV 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?

TSK all: mal 1:6, jos 24:3, isa 51:2, isa 63:16, isa 64:8, eze 33:24, mt 3:9, lu 1:73, lu 3:8, joh 8:39,53,56, ac 7:2, ro 4:1, ro 9:10, 1co 8:6, eph 4:6, heb 12:9; hath: job 31:15, ps 100:3, isa 43:1,7,15, isa 44:2, joh 8:41, ac 17:25; why: mal 2:11,14,15, jer 9:4,5, mic 7:2-6, mt 10:21, mt 22:16, ac 7:26, 1co 6:6-8, eph 4:25, 1th 4:6; by: mal 2:8,11, ex 34:10-16, jos 23:12-16, ezr 9:11-14, ezr 10:2,3, ne 13:29

Verse 11

WEB Judah has dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah has profaned the holiness of Yahweh which he loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god.

KJV 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.

TSK and an: le 18:24-30, jer 7:10, eze 18:13, eze 22:11, re 21:8; profaned: ex 19:5,6, le 20:26, de 7:3-6, de 14:2, de 33:26-29, ps 106:28,34-39, jer 2:3,7,8,21,22; and hath: ge 6:1,2, jud 3:6, 1ki 11:1-8, ezr 9:1,2,12, ezr 10:2, ne 13:23-29, ho 6:7, 2co 6:14-18

Verse 12

WEB Yahweh will cut off, to the man who does this, him who wakes and him who answers, out of the tents of Jacob, and him who offers an offering to Yahweh of Armies.

KJV 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.

TSK cut: le 18:29, le 20:3, nu 15:30,31, jos 23:12,13, 1sa 2:31-34; the master and the scholar: 1ch 25:8, ezr 10:18,19, ne 13:28,29, isa 9:14-16, isa 24:1,2, eze 14:10, ho 4:4,5, mt 15:14, 2ti 3:13, re 19:20; out: nu 24:5, zec 12:7; and him: mal 2:10, ge 4:3-5, 1sa 3:14, 1sa 15:22,23, isa 61:8, isa 66:3, am 5:22

Verse 13

WEB This again you do: you cover the altar of Yahweh with tears, with weeping, and with sighing, because he doesn’t regard the offering any more, neither receives it with good will at your hand.

KJV 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.

TSK covering: de 15:9, 1sa 1:9,10, 2sa 13:19,20, ps 78:34-37, ec 4:1; insomuch: de 26:14, ne 8:9-12, pr 15:8, pr 21:27, isa 1:11-15, jer 6:20

Verse 14

WEB Yet you say, ‘Why?’ Because Yahweh has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion, and the wife of your covenant.

KJV 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.

TSK Wherefore: mal 1:6,7, mal 3:8, pr 30:20, isa 58:3, jer 8:12; the Lord: mal 3:5, ge 31:50, jud 11:10, 1sa 12:5, jer 42:5, mic 1:2; the wife: mal 2:15, pr 5:18,19, ec 9:9, isa 54:6; thy companion: ge 2:18, pr 2:17, so 1:15, eze 16:8

Verse 15

WEB Did he not make you one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? Why one? He sought a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let no one deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.

KJV 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.

TSK did: ge 1:27, ge 2:20-24, mt 19:4-6, mr 10:6-8, 1co 7:2; the spirit: ge 2:7, job 27:3, ec 12:7, joh 20:22; That he: ge 24:3-7,44, ge 26:34,35, ge 27:46, ge 28:2-4, de 7:4, ezr 9:4, ne 13:24, jer 2:21, 1co 7:14, eph 6:4, 1ti 3:4,5,11,12, tit 1:6; godly seed: ge 6:2, ho 1:10, ac 3:25, 2co 6:18; take: mal 2:14, pr 4:23, pr 6:25, pr 7:25, mt 5:28,29, mt 15:19, jas 1:14,15

Verse 16

WEB For I hate divorce,” says Yahweh, the God of Israel, “and him who covers his garment with violence!” says Yahweh of Armies. “Therefore take heed to your spirit, that you don’t deal treacherously.

KJV 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.

TSK the Lord: de 24:1-4, isa 50:1, mt 5:31,32, mt 19:3-9, mr 10:2-12, lu 16:18; covereth: pr 28:13, isa 28:20, isa 59:6, mic 7:2,3

Verse 17

WEB You have wearied Yahweh with your words. Yet you say, ‘How have we wearied him?’ In that you say, ‘Everyone who does evil is good in the sight of Yahweh, and he delights in them;’ or ‘Where is the God of justice?’

KJV 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?

TSK wearied: ps 95:9,10, isa 1:14, isa 7:13, isa 43:24, jer 15:6, eze 16:43, am 2:13; Wherein: mal 2:14, mal 1:6,7, mal 3:8; Every: mal 3:13-15, job 34:5-9,17,36, job 36:17, ps 73:3-15, mt 11:18,19; Where: de 32:4, 1sa 2:3, ps 10:11-13, ec 8:11, isa 5:18,19, isa 30:18, eze 8:12, eze 9:9, zep 1:12, 2pe 3:3,4