Malachi 2:10 KJV — MannaFest

Malachi 2:10

Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us? why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, by profaning the covenant of our fathers?

KJV

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ASV

Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us? why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, profaning the covenant of our fathers?

WEB

Do we not all have one Father? Did not one God create us? Why then do we break faith with one another so as to profane the covenant of our fathers?

YLT

Have we not all one father? Hath not our God prepared us? Wherefore do we deal treacherously, Each against his brother, To pollute the covenant of our fathers?

DBT

Have we not all one father? Hath not oneGod created us? Why do we deal unfaithfully every man against his brother, by profaning the covenant of our fathers?

About this book

Old Testament

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Malachi — The last Old Testament voice — a prophet in dialogue with a community grown cynical about covenant. ‘I am the LORD, I change not.’

Author: Malachi (1:1) — whose name means ‘my messenger’; possibly a personal name, possibly a title
Date: c. 430 BC, the late post-exilic period (contemporary with Nehemiah's second term)

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46 verses on the floor

Psalms 100:3
Know ye that the Lord he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
Malachi 2:11
Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the holiness of the Lord which he loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange god.
Acts 17:26
And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;
1 Corinthians 8:6
But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.
Ephesians 4:6
One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.

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Two things they are here charged with, as very provoking to God in this matter--taking strange wives of heathen nations, and abusing and putting away the wives they had of their own nation; in both these they dealt treacherously and violated a sacred covenant; the former was in contempt of the covenant of peculiarity, the latter of the marriage-covenant.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

And that which was at the bottom of this and other instances of profaneness and downright atheism, thinking God altogether such a one as themselves, which was, in effect, to say, There is no God,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Ezr 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 (Ex 19:5; 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.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

One father - Abraham, or Jacob, with whom God made the covenant by which their posterity were made a peculiar people. Created us - The prophet speaks of that great and gracious work of God, creating them to be a chosen people. And so we Christians are created in Christ Jesus.

John Wesley (NT Notes)· Explanatory Notes upon the Bible, 1765evangelical

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Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

MAL 2:101CO 8:6 ROM 11:36
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
MAL 2:10PSA 100:3 PSA 95:6-7
MAL 2:10PSA 100:3 PSA 46:10
MAL 2:10PSA 100:3 PSA 119:73
MAL 2:10MAL 2:11 2CO 6:14-18
MAL 2:10PSA 100:3 JHN 17:3
MAL 2:10PSA 100:3 EPH 2:10
MAL 2:101CO 8:6 JHN 1:3

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