Malachi 2:8

But yee are gone out of the way: yee haue caused many to fall by the Lawe: yee haue broken the couenant of Leui, sayeth the Lord of hostes.

Geneva Bible 1599

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 the Priestes lippes shoulde preserue knowledge, and they shoulde seeke the Lawe at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the Lord of hostes.

9Therefore haue I also made you to be despised, and vile before all the people, because yee kept not my wayes, but haue beene partiall in the Lawe.

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Cross References

Leviticus 21:15Neyther shall he defile his seede among his people: for I am the Lord which sanctifie him.

1 Samuel 2:24Do no more, my sonnes, for it is no good report that I heare, which is, that ye make the Lords people to trespasse.

2 Kings 16:11And Vriiah the Priest made an altar in al poyntes like to that which King Ahaz had sent from Damascus, so did Vriiah the Priest against King Ahaz came from Damascus.

Psalms 18:21Because I kept the wayes of the Lord, and did not wickedly against my God.

Proverbs 12:8A man shall be commended for his wisedome: but the froward of heart shalbe despised.

Isaiah 30:11Depart out of the way: go aside out of the path: cause the holy one of Israel to cease from vs.

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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