Malachi 2:9

And I have made you despised and cast out among all the people, because you⌃ have not kept my ways, but have + 2:9 Gr. accepted persons. been partial in the law.

LXX2012 (US English)

In The King James Version

Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as ye have not kept my ways, but have been partial in the law.

In Context

8But you⌃ have turned aside from the way, and caused many to fail in following the law: you⌃ have corrupted the covenant of Levi, says the Lord Almighty.

10Have you⌃ not all one father? Did not one God create you? why have you⌃ forsaken every man his brother, to profane the covenant of your fathers?

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 1:17You shall not have respect to + 1:17 Gr. a face. persons in judgment, you shall judge + 1:17 Gr. according to small and great. small and great equally; you shall not shrink from before the person of a man, for the judgment is God's; and whatever matter shall be too hard for you, you⌃ shall bring it to me, and I will hear it.

1 Kings 22:28And Michaias said, If you return at all in peace, the Lord has not spoken by me.

Proverbs 10:7The memory of the just is praised; but the name of the ungodly man is extinguished.

Jeremiah 28:15The Lord made the earth by his power, preparing the world by his wisdom, by his understanding he stretched out the heaven.

Ezekiel 13:21And I will tear your kerchiefs, and will rescue my people out of your hands, and they shall no longer be in your hands to be confounded; and you⌃ shall know that I am the Lord.

Matthew Henry on Malachi 2:2-10

The Office of the Priesthood; Charge against the Priests; The Priests Censured and Threatened. ( b. c. 400.) 1 And now, O ye priests, this commandment is for you. 2 If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith the Lord of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings: yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay it to heart. 3 Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces, even the dung of your solemn feasts;… Read the whole commentary →

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