Malachi 2:15 KJV — MannaFest

Malachi 2:15

And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.

KJV

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ASV

And did he not make one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? And wherefore one? He sought a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.

WEB

Has not the LORD made them one, having a portion of the Spirit? And why one? Because He seeks godly offspring. So guard yourselves in your spirit and do not break faith with the wife of your youth.

YLT

And He did not make one only , And He hath the remnant of the Spirit. And what is the one alone ! He is seeking a godly seed. And ye have been watchful over your spirit, And with the wife of thy youth, None doth deal treacherously.

DBT

And did not one make [them]? and the remnant of the Spirit was his. And wherefore the one? He sought a seed ofGod. Take heed then to your spirit, and let none deal unfaithfully against the wife of his youth,

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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48 verses on the floor

Genesis 1:27
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
Malachi 2:14
Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the Lord hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.
2 Corinthians 6:14
Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
Matthew 19:4–6
And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,
Mark 10:6–8
But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.

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And wherefore did he make but one woman for one man? It was that he might seek a godly seed -- a seed of God (so the word is), a seed that should bear the image of God, be employed in the service of God, and be devoted to his glory and honour,--that every man having his own wife, and but one, according to the law, ( 1 Cor. vii.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

They did not perform their promises to them, but defrauded them of their maintenance or dower, or took in concubines, to share in the affection that was due to their wives only. [3.] They put them away, gave them a bill of divorce, and turned them off, nay, perhaps they did it without the ceremony that the law of Moses prescribed,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

And wherefore (that is, why then did He thus isolate us as) the one (people; the Hebrew is 'the one')? In order that He might seek a godly seed"; that is, that He might have "a seed of God," a nation the repository of the covenant, and the stock of the Messiah, and the witness for the one God amidst the surrounding polytheisms.

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

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