Malachi 3:16

Then those who feared LORD spoke one with another, and LORD hearkened, and heard, and a book of remembrance was written before him, for those who feared LORD, and who thought upon his name.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name.

In Context

15And now we call the proud happy. Yea, those who work wickedness are built up. Yea, they challenge God, and escape.

17And they shall be mine, says LORD of hosts, my own possession, in the day that I make. And I will spare them, as a man spares his own son who serves him.

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Cross References

Genesis 22:12And he said, Do not lay thy hand upon the lad, neither do thou anything to him. For now I know that thou fear God, since thou have not withheld thy son, thine only son, from me.

1 Samuel 23:16And Jonathan, Saul's son, arose, and went to David into the forest, and strengthened his hand in God.

1 Kings 18:3And Ahab called Obadiah, who was over the household. (Now Obadiah feared LORD greatly;

2 Chronicles 6:7Now it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of LORD, the God of Israel.

Esther 2:23And when inquiry was made of the matter, and it was found to be so, they were both hanged on a tree. And it was written in the book of the chronicles before the king.

Esther 6:1On that night the king could not sleep. And he commanded to bring the book of records of the chronicles, and they were read before the king.

Matthew Henry on Malachi 3:14-18

Wicked Conversation Reproved; Evil Maxims of Sinners; Pious Converse Commended; Promises to the Godly. ( b. c. 400.) 13 Your words have been stout against me, saith the Lord . Yet ye say, What have we spoken so much against thee? 14 Ye have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the Lord of hosts? 15 And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered. 16 Then… Read the whole commentary →

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