Before all the people,
Because you have not kept My ways
But have shown bpartiality in the law.”
Treachery of Infidelity
bHas not one God created us?
Why do we deal treacherously with one another
By profaning the covenant of the fathers?
And an abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem,
For Judah has aprofaned
The Lord’s holy institution which He loves:
He has married the daughter of a foreign god.
The man who does this, being1 awake and aware,
Yet awho brings an offering to the Lord of hosts!
You cover the altar of the Lord with tears,
With weeping and crying;
So He does not regard the offering anymore,
Nor receive it with goodwill from your hands.
Because the Lord has been witness
Between you and athe wife of your youth,
With whom you have dealt treacherously;
bYet she is your companion
And your wife by covenant.
Having a remnant of the Spirit?
And why one?
He seeks bgodly offspring.
Therefore take heed to your spirit,
And let none deal treacherously with the wife of his youth.
That He hates divorce,
For it covers one’s garment with violence,”
Says the Lord of hosts.
“Therefore take heed to your spirit,
That you do not deal treacherously.”
Yet you say,
“In what way have we wearied Him?”
In that you say,
b“Everyone who does evil
Is good in the sight of the Lord,
And He delights in them,”
Or, “Where is the God of justice?”
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Malachi 2:11
dealt treacherously—namely, in respect to the Jewish wives who were put away (Malachi 2:14; also Malachi 2:10, Malachi 2:15-16).
profaned the holiness of . . . Lord—by ill-treating the Israelites (namely, the wives), who were set apart as a people holy unto the Lord: "the holy seed" (Ezra 9:2; compare Jeremiah 2:3). Or, "the holiness of the Lord" means His holy ordinance and covenant (Deuteronomy 7:3). But "which He loved," seems to refer to the holy people, Israel, whom God so gratuitously loved (Malachi 1:2), without merit on their part (Psalms 47:4).
married, etc.— (Ezra 9:1-2; Ezra 10:2; Nehemiah 13:23, etc.).
daughter of a strange god—women worshipping idols: as the worshipper in Scripture is regarded in the relation of a child to a father (Jeremiah 2:27).
Malachi 2:10-16
Reproof of those who contracted marriages with foreigners and repudiated their Jewish wives.
Have we not all one father?—Why, seeing we all have one common origin, "do we deal treacherously against one another" ("His brother" being a general expression implying that all are "brethren" and sisters as children of the same Father above, I Thessalonians 4:3-6 and so including the wives so injured)? namely, by putting away our Jewish wives, and taking foreign women to wife (compare Malachi 2:14 and Malachi 2:11; Ezra 9:1-9), and so violating "the covenant" made by Jehovah with "our fathers," by which it was ordained that we should be a people separated from the other peoples of the world (Exodus 19:5; Leviticus 20:24, Leviticus 20:26; Deuteronomy 7:3). To intermarry with the heathen would defeat this purpose of Jehovah, who was the common Father of the Israelites in a peculiar sense in which He was not Father of the heathen. The "one Father" is Jehovah (Job 31:15; I Corinthians 8:6; Ephesians 4:6). "Created us": not merely physical creation, but "created us" to be His peculiar and chosen people (Psalms 102:18; Isaiah 43:1; Isaiah 45:8; Isaiah 60:21; Ephesians 2:10), [CALVIN]. How marked the contrast between the honor here done to the female sex, and the degradation to which Oriental women are generally subjected!
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Malachi 2:11:
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