Malachi 3:16

Then those who feared Yahweh spoke with one another. Yahweh paid attention and listened, and a book of remembrance was written before him about those who feared Yahweh and honored his name.

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Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name.

In Context

15So now we call the arrogant blessed. Evildoers not only prosper, but they even test God and escape.'”

17“They will be mine,” says Yahweh of hosts, “my own treasured possession, on the day that I act. I will pity them, as a man pities his own son who serves him.

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Cross References

Genesis 22:12He said, “Do not lay your hand upon the lad, nor do anything to harm him, for now I know that you fear God, seeing that you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me.”

1 Samuel 23:16Then Jonathan, Saul's son, got up and went to David at Horesh, and strengthened his hand in God.

1 Kings 18:3Ahab called Obadiah, who was in charge of the palace. Now Obadiah honored Yahweh very much,

2 Chronicles 6:7Now it was in the heart of David my father, to build a house for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel.

Esther 2:23The report was investigated and confirmed, and both the men were hanged from a gallows. This account was written in the book of the chronicles in the presence of the king.

Esther 6:1That night the king could not sleep. He commanded servants to bring the records of the events of his reign, and they were being read aloud to the king.

Matthew Henry on Malachi 3:14-18

Wicked Conversation Reproved; Evil Maxims of Sinners; Pious Converse Commended; Promises to the Godly. ( b. c. 400.) 13 Your words have been stout against me, saith the Lord . Yet ye say, What have we spoken so much against thee? 14 Ye have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the Lord of hosts? 15 And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered. 16 Then… Read the whole commentary →

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