Malachi 2:10

Is there not one father for us all? Has not one God created us? Why are we faithless each man against his brother, profaning the covenant of our fathers?

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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?

In Context

9“So I also, I have made you contemptible and vile before all the people, because you have not kept my ways, but have instead shown partiality with regard to the instruction.”

11Judah has been faithless. A disgusting thing has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem. For Judah has profaned the holy place of Yahweh which he loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god.

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Cross References

Exodus 19:5Now then, if you obediently listen to my voice and keep my covenant, then you will be my special possession from among all peoples, for all the earth is mine.

Joshua 23:12But if you turn back and cling to the survivors of these nations who remain among you, or if you intermarry with them, or if you come together with them and they with you,

Ezra 9:11the commands that you gave to your servants the prophets, when you said, “This land that you are entering to possess is an unclean land. It is contaminated by the people of the lands with their abominations. They have filled it from one end to the other with their uncleanness.

Nehemiah 13:29Call them to mind, my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, and the covenant of the priesthood and the Levites.

Psalms 100:3Know that Yahweh is God; 1 he made us, and we are his. 1 We are his people and the sheep of his pasture. 1

Isaiah 43:7everyone who is called by my name, whom I have created for my glory, whom I have formed, yes, whom I have made. 1

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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