Malachi 4:6
He will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the earth with a curse.
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5Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and terrible day of the Lord comes.
Cross References
Isaiah 11:4but with righteousness he will judge the poor,and decide with equity for the humble of the earth.He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth;and with the breath of his lips he will kill the wicked.
Isaiah 43:28Therefore I will profane the princes of the sanctuary;and I will make Jacob a curse,and Israel a reviling."
Isaiah 65:15You shall leave your name for a curse to my chosen; and the Lord God will kill you; and he will call his servants by another name:
Daniel 9:26After the sixty-two weeks an anointed one shall be cut off, and shall have nothing: and the people of the prince who shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and his end shall come with a flood, and until the end there shall be war; desolations are decreed.
Zechariah 11:6For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land," says the Lord; "but, behold, I will deliver the men everyone into his neighbor's hand, and into the hand of his king. They will strike the land, and out of their hand I will not deliver them."
Zechariah 14:2For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city will be taken, the houses rifled, and the women ravished. Half of the city will go out into captivity, and the rest of the people will not be cut off from the city.
Matthew Henry on Malachi 4:5-6
Evangelical Predictions. ( b. c. 400.) 4 Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments. 5 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord : 6 And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse. This is doubtless intended for a solemn conclusion, not only of this prophecy, but of the… Read the whole commentary →