Malachi 2:14

Yet ye said, Wherefore? Because the Lord has borne witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, whom thou hast forsaken, and yet she was thy partner, and the wife of thy covenant.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

13And these things which I hated, ye did: ye covered with tears the altar of the Lord, and with weeping and groaning because of troubles: is it meet for me to have respect to your sacrifice, or to receive anything from your hands as welcome?

15And did he not do well? and there was the residue of his spirit. But ye said, What does God seek but a seed? But take ye heed to your spirit, and forsake not the wife of thy youth.

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Cross References

Genesis 2:18And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone, let us make for him a help suitable to him.

Judges 11:10And the elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, The Lord be witness between us, if we shall not do according to thy word.

Proverbs 2:17Of her who has forsaken the instruction of her youth, 1 And forgotten the covenant of God. 1

Proverbs 5:20Be not intimate with a strange woman, 1 Neither fold thyself in the arms of a woman not thine own. 1

Ecclesiastes 9:9And see life with the wife whom thou lovest 1 All the days of the life of thy vanity, 1 Which are given thee under the sun: 1 For that is thy portion in thy life, 1 And in thy labor wherein thou laborest under the sun. 1

Isaiah 54:6The Lord has not called thee as a deserted and faint-hearted woman, nor as a woman hated from her youth, saith thy God.

Matthew Henry on Malachi 2:11-17

Unlawful Marriages; Breach of the Marriage-covenant; Charge of Corrupt Principles. ( b. c. 400.) 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? 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. 12 The Lord will cut off the man that doeth this,… Read the whole commentary →

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