Malachi 1:2
“I have loved you,” says the Lord. “But you ask, ‘How have you shown love to us?’ Was not Esau Jacob’s brother?” explains the Lord of hosts, “yet I loved Jacob,
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1An oracle. The message of the Lord to Israel through Malachi.
Cross References
Genesis 25:23who said to her, “Two nations are in your womb, two peoples divided from birth, One will be stronger than the other, the elder will serve the younger.”
Genesis 25:26Afterwards his brother came holding Esau’s heel with his hand; so he was named Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when they were born.
Genesis 27:33Then Isaac trembled and said, “Who then is he that has hunted venison and brought it to me, so that I ate plentifully before you came, and blessed him? His blessing cannot be undone!”
Genesis 28:13The Lord also stood beside him and said, “I am the Lord, God of Abraham and God of Isaac. The land on which you lie I will give to you and to your children.
Genesis 48:4and said to me, ‘I will make you fruitful, and numerous, and I will make of you a company of peoples, and will give this land to your descendants after you for an everlasting possession.’
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 →