Malachi 4:6
He will turn fathers’ hearts to their sons and sons’ hearts to their fathers, so that I will not come and strike the earth with judgement.”
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In Context
5I am about to send to you Elijah the prophet, before the great and terrible day of the Lord comes.
Cross References
Zechariah 11:6I will no longer have pity on the people of this earth, says the Lord. I will turn neighbor against neighbor, and put everyone under the power of a king, and when the land is devastated I will not rescue them.
Zechariah 14:2And all the nations will gather to Jerusalem, to fight against it. The city will be taken and the houses plundered and the women raped. Half of the city will go into captivity, and the rest of the people left in the ruins.
Matthew Henry on Malachi 4:5-6
Evangelical Predictions. ( b. c. 400.) 4 Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments. 5 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord : 6 And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse. This is doubtless intended for a solemn conclusion, not only of this prophecy, but of the… Read the whole commentary →