Malachi 1:3
and hated Esau, and + 1:3 Lit. appointed them for desolation.laid waste his borders, and made his heritage as dwellings of the wilderness?
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.
In Context
Cross References
Deuteronomy 21:15And if a man have two wives, the one loved and + 21:15 Gr. one of them.the other hated, and both the loved and the hated should have born him children, and the son of the hated should be first-born;
Isaiah 34:9And her valleys shall be turned into pitch, and her land into sulphur; and her land shall be as pitch burning night and day;
Isaiah 34:14And devils shall meet with satyrs, and they shall cry one to the other: there shall satyrs rest, having found for themselves a place of rest.
Jeremiah 9:11Who is the wise man, that he may understand this? and he that has the word of the mouth of the Lord addressed to him, let him tell you wherefore the land has been destroyed, has been ravaged by fire like a desert, so that no one passes through it.
Jeremiah 49:10If ye will indeed dwell in this land, I will build you, and will not pull you down, but will plant you, and in no wise pluck you up: for I have ceased from the calamities which I brought upon you.
Matthew Henry on Malachi 1:2-6
Malachi God's prophets were his witnesses to his church, each in his day, for several ages, witnesses for him and his authority, witnesses against sin and sinners, attesting the true intents of God's providences in his dealings with his people then and the kind intentions of his grace concerning his church in the days of the Messiah, to whom all the prophets bore witness, for they all agreed in their testimony; and now we have only one witness more to call, and we have done with our evidence; and though he be the… Read the whole commentary →