From Nave’s Topical Bible
Malachi
Every passage the 1896 Nave’s Topical Biblegathers under this heading, in Nave’s own arrangement and then in Bible order. MannaFest has not written this page — it is the older index, transcribed, with the Word travelling beside each reference.
- 6Passages listed
- 1Books of the 66
- 1896Nave's edition
How Nave’s arranged it
- Last of the minor prophetsMalachi 1:1
- Reproves God's people for their impietyMalachi 1Malachi 2Malachi 3:7–15
- Fortells the coming of the MessiahMalachi 3:1–6
- The judgments on the wicked and consolations of the righteousMalachi 4:1–3
- The coming of the forerunner of the MessiahMalachi 4:4–6
The passages, in Bible order (6)
The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 6 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.
- Malachi 1:1
This is the burden of the word of the LORD to Israel through Malachi:
Commentary on Malachi 1:12 voices
Malachi--see Introduction. God sent no prophet after him till John the Baptist, the forerunner of Christ, in order to enflame His people with the more ardent desire for Him, the great antitype and fulfiller of prophecy.
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871Reformed
The word hand, as we have observed elsewhere, means ministration. The meaning then is, that this doctrine proceeded from God, but that a minister, even Malachi, was employed as an instrument; so that he brought nothing as his own, but only related faithfully what had been committed to him by God from whom it came.
John Calvin· Commentaries, 1554Reformed
- Malachi 2:1
“And now this decree is for you, O priests:
Commentary on Malachi 2:12 voices
(Chapter 2, verses 1, 2.) Woe to the deceitful one who has a male in his flock and makes a vow, sacrificing something weak to the Lord.
Jerome· Commentary on Malachi, 420Patristic
And now, O ye priests,.... That despised and profaned the name of the Lord; that suffered such corrupt and illegal sacrifices to be brought and offered up: this commandment is for you: of giving glory to the name of God; of taking care of his worship; of teaching the people knowledge, and directing them in the way in which they should walk; as follows:
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Malachi 3:1–6
“Behold, I will send My messenger, who will prepare the way before Me. Then the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to His temple—the Messenger of the covenant, in whom you delight—see, He is coming,” says the LORD of Hosts.
Commentary on Malachi 3:1–62 voices
And that we may not have to ask, Of what God was the Word made flesh? he does himself previously teach us, saying, "There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. The same came as a witness, that he might bear witness of that Light. He was not that Light, but [came] that he might testify of the Light." By what God, then, was John, the forerunner, who testifies of the Light, sent [into the world]?
Irenaeus· AGAINST HERESIES 3:11.4, 202Patristic
Behold, I will send my messenger,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Malachi 3:7–15
Yet from the days of your fathers, you have turned away from My statutes and have not kept them. Return to Me, and I will return to you,” says the LORD of Hosts. “But you ask, ‘How can we return?’
Commentary on Malachi 3:7–152 voices
Reproof for the non-payment of tithes and offerings, which is the cause of their national calamities, and promise of prosperity on their paying them. from . . . days of your fathers--Ye live as your fathers did when they brought on themselves the Babylonian captivity, and ye wish to follow in their steps.
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871Reformed
(Verse 7 and following) Return to me, and I will return to you, says the Lord of hosts. But you say, 'How shall we return?' Will man rob God? Yet you are robbing me. But you say, 'How have we robbed you?' In your tithes and contributions. You are cursed with a curse, for you are robbing me, the whole nation of you. Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house.
Jerome· Commentary on Malachi, 420Patristic
- Malachi 4:1–3
“For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble; the day is coming when I will set them ablaze,” says the LORD of Hosts. “Not a root or branch will be left to them.”
Commentary on Malachi 4:1–32 voices
For, behold, the day cometh that shall burn as an oven,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
For, behold, the day cometh, which shall burn as an oven - He had declared the great severance of the God-fearing and the God-blaspheming, those who served and those who did not serve God; the righteous and the wicked; now he declares the way and time of the severance, the Day of Judgment.
Albert Barnes· Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)Evangelical
- Malachi 4:4–6
“Remember the law of My servant Moses, the statutes and ordinances I commanded him for all Israel at Horeb.
Commentary on Malachi 4:4–62 voices
Just as "Moses" and "Elias" are here connected with the Lord's coming, so at the transfiguration they converse with Him, implying that the law and prophets which had prepared His way were now fulfilled in Him. statutes . . . judgments--ceremonial "statutes": "judgments" in civil questions at issue.
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871Reformed
And this may well be an emblem of the day of judgment. The sun of righteousness - Christ, who is fitly compared to the sun, being the fountain of light, and vital heat to his church. And of mercy and benignity; for the Hebrew word imports both.
John Wesley· Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament, 1765Evangelical