Malachi 2:8

But you have turned away from the true path. You have caused many to stumble with respect to the law. You have broken the covenant of Levi,” says Yahweh of hosts.

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In The King James Version

But ye are departed out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble at the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith the LORD of hosts.

In Context

7For a priest's lips should keep knowledge and people should seek instruction from his mouth, for he is a messenger of Yahweh of hosts.

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.”

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Cross References

Leviticus 21:15so he will not defile his children among his people, for I am Yahweh, who makes him holy.'”

1 Samuel 2:24No, my sons; for it is not a good report that I hear. You make Yahweh's people disobey.

2 Kings 16:11So Uriah the priest built an altar to be just like the plans that King Ahaz had sent from Damascus. He finished it before King Ahaz arrived back from Damascus.

Psalms 18:21For I have kept the ways of Yahweh and have not wickedly turned away from my God. 1

Proverbs 12:8A person is praised by how much wisdom he has, 1 but the one who makes perverse choices is despised. 1

Isaiah 30:11Turn aside from the way, stray off the path; 1 cause the Holy One of Israel to cease speaking before our face.” 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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