Malachi 1:2
I have loved you, saith Hashem. 1 Yet ye say: Wherein hast Thou loved us? 1 Was not Esav Ya'akovʼs brother? saith Hashem; 1 yet I loved Ya'akov, 1
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
1The burden of the Devar Hashem to Yisroel by Malachi. 1
Cross References
Genesis 25:23And Hashem said unto her, 1 Two goyim (nations) are in thy womb, 1 and two peoples shall be separated from within thee; 1 and the one people shall be stronger than the other people; 1 and the older shall serve the younger.
Genesis 25:26And after that came out his brother, and his yad was grasping on akev Esav; and shmo was called Ya'akov; and Yitzchak was threescore shanah when she bore them.
Genesis 27:33And Yitzchak trembled with charadah gedolah ad me'od (exceedingly great trembling), and said, Who? Where is he that hath hunted wild game, and brought it me, and I have eaten of all of it before thou camest, and have made a brocha upon him? And indeed he shall be baruch (blessed)!
Genesis 28:13And, hinei, Hashem stood above it, and said, I am Hashem Elohei Avraham thy av, and Elohei Yitzchak; ha'aretz whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy zera;
Genesis 48:4And said unto me, Hineni, I will make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, and I will make of thee a kehal of ammim; and will give HaAretz Hazot to thy zera after thee for an achuzzat olam (everlasting possession).
Deuteronomy 7:6For thou art an Am Kadosh unto Hashem Eloheicha; Hashem Eloheicha hath chosen thee to be an Am Segullah (Treasured People) unto Himself, above all people that are upon the face of ha'adamah.
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 →