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THE MESSAGE
Malachi 1:1
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A pronouncement:
An oracle: the word of the LORD to Yisra'el by Mal'akhi.
The burden of the word of ye Lord to Israel by Malachi.
The burden of the word of the Lord to Israel by Malachi.
The oracle of the word of the Lord to Israel by Malachi.
The pronouncement of the word of the LORD to Israel through Malachi:
This message is the word of the Lord given to Israel through Malachi.
The oracle (burdensome message) of the word of the LORD to Israel through [My messenger] Malachi.
The burden of the woorde of the Lorde to Israel by the ministerie of Malachi.
The oracle of the word of the LORD to Israel through Malachi.
The oracle of the word of Yahweh to Israel by the hand of Malachi.
This is an oracle, the word of the LORD to Israel through Malachi:
I am Malachi. And this is the message that the Lord gave me for Israel.
A prophecy, the word of Adonai to Isra'el through Mal'akhi:
The burden of the word of Jehovah to Israel by Malachi.
This is a message from the Lord to Israel. God used Malachi to tell this message to the people.
THE vision of the words of the LORD concerning Israel by Malachi.
This is the message that the Lord gave Malachi to tell the people of Israel.
An oracle. The word of Yahweh to Israel through Malachi.
The burden of the Word of Jehovah to Israel by the hand of Malachi:
The burden of the word of Jehovah to Israel by Malachi.
The word of the Lord to Israel by Malachi.
The burden of the word of the LORD to Israel by Malachi.
The burthen of the word of the Lorde to Israel, by the ministerie of Malachi.
The burden of the word of the Lord to Israel by the hand of his messenger. Lay it, I pray you, to heart.
The burden of the word of the LORD to Israel by Malachi.
An oracle: the word of Yahweh to Israel by Malachi.
The birthun of the word of the Lord to Israel, in the hond of Malachie, the profete.
The burden of the word of Yahweh to Israel by Malachi.
The burden of the word of the LORD to Israel by Malachi.
What follows is divine revelation. The word of the Lord came to Israel through Malachi:
The burden [fn] of the word of the Lord to Israel by Malachi.
This is the message that the Lord gave to Israel through the prophet Malachi.
This is the Word of the Lord spoken to Israel through Malachi.
An oracle. The word of the Lord to Israel by Malachi.
The oracle of the word of Yahweh, unto Israel, - by the hand of Malachi.
The burden of the word of the Lord to Israel by the hand of Malachias.
The oracle of the word of the LORD to Israel by Mal'achi.
The burden of a word of Jehovah unto Israel by the hand of Malachi:
The heuy burthen which the LORDE sheweth agaynst Israel by Malachy.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
burden: Isaiah 13:1, Habakkuk 1:1, Zechariah 9:1, Zechariah 12:1
by: Heb. by the hand of, Haggai 1:1, Haggai 2:1, *marg.
Reciprocal: 1 Kings 10:29 - their means 2 Kings 9:25 - the Lord Jeremiah 23:14 - Sodom Jeremiah 23:33 - What Ezekiel 12:10 - This
Cross-References
God spoke: "Earth, green up! Grow all varieties of seed-bearing plants, Every sort of fruit-bearing tree." And there it was. Earth produced green seed-bearing plants, all varieties, And fruit-bearing trees of all sorts. God saw that it was good. It was evening, it was morning— Day Three.
God made two big lights, the larger to take charge of Day, The smaller to be in charge of Night; and he made the stars. God placed them in the heavenly sky to light up Earth And oversee Day and Night, to separate light and dark. God saw that it was good. It was evening, it was morning— Day Four.
God spoke: "Swarm, Ocean, with fish and all sea life! Birds, fly through the sky over Earth!" God created the huge whales, all the swarm of life in the waters, And every kind and species of flying birds. God saw that it was good. God blessed them: "Prosper! Reproduce! Fill Ocean! Birds, reproduce on Earth!" It was evening, it was morning— Day Five.
When he finished speaking with him on Mount Sinai, he gave Moses two tablets of Testimony, slabs of stone, written with the finger of God.
Then on the twenty-fourth day of this month, the People of Israel gathered for a fast, wearing burlap and faces smudged with dirt as signs of repentance. The Israelites broke off all relations with foreigners, stood up, and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their parents. While they stood there in their places, they read from the Book of The Revelation of God , their God, for a quarter of the day. For another quarter of the day they confessed and worshiped their God . A group of Levites—Jeshua, Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Kenani—stood on the platform and cried out to God , their God, in a loud voice. The Levites Jeshua, Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah said, "On your feet! Bless God , your God, for ever and ever!" Blessed be your glorious name, exalted above all blessing and praise! You're the one, God , you alone; You made the heavens, the heavens of heavens, and all angels; The earth and everything on it, the seas and everything in them; You keep them all alive; heaven's angels worship you!
I look up at your macro-skies, dark and enormous, your handmade sky-jewelry, Moon and stars mounted in their settings. Then I look at my micro-self and wonder, Why do you bother with us? Why take a second look our way?
The skies were made by God 's command; he breathed the word and the stars popped out. He scooped Sea into his jug, put Ocean in his keg.
What a wildly wonderful world, God ! You made it all, with Wisdom at your side, made earth overflow with your wonderful creations. Oh, look—the deep, wide sea, brimming with fish past counting, sardines and sharks and salmon. Ships plow those waters, and Leviathan, your pet dragon, romps in them. All the creatures look expectantly to you to give them their meals on time. You come, and they gather around; you open your hand and they eat from it. If you turned your back, they'd die in a minute— Take back your Spirit and they die, revert to original mud; Send out your Spirit and they spring to life— the whole countryside in bloom and blossom.
God 's strong name is our help, the same God who made heaven and earth.
With Lady Wisdom, God formed Earth; with Madame Insight, he raised Heaven. They knew when to signal rivers and springs to the surface, and dew to descend from the night skies.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
The burden of the word of the Lord,.... By which is meant the prophecy of this book, so called, not because heavy, burdensome, and distressing, either for the prophet to carry, or the people to bear; for some part of it, which respects Christ, and his forerunner, was matter of joy to the people of God; but because it was a message sent by the Lord, and carried by the prophet to the people; :- :- and this was not the word of man, but of God, a part of Scripture, by divine inspiration. The Syriac version is, "the vision of the words of the Lord": and the Arabic version, "the revelation of the word of the Lord"; and the Septuagint version, "the assumption of the word of the Lord"; it was what was revealed, made known, and delivered by the Lord to the prophet, and taken up by him, and carried to Israel, which was the general name of all the twelve tribes, when under one prince; but when the kingdom was divided, in Rehoboam's time, it was peculiar to the ten tribes, as Judah was to the two tribes of Benjamin and Judah; but after the return of these two from the Babylonish captivity, in which they were joined by some of the other tribes, it was given unto them as here:
by Malachi; or, "by the hand of Malachi" m; he was the instrument the Lord made use of; the person whom he sent, and by whom he delivered the following prophecy.
m ביד "in manu", V. L. Cocceius; "per manum", Pagninus, Montanus, Piscator.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The burden of the word of the Lord to Israel - o “The word of the Lord is heavy, because it is called a burden, yet it hath something of consolation, because it is not ‘against,’ but to Israel. For it is one thing when we write to this or that person; another, when we write ‘against’ this or that person; the one being the part of friendship, the other, the open admission of enmity.”
“By the hand of Malachi;” through him, as the instrument of God, deposited with him; as Paul speaks of 1 Corinthians 9:17; Titus 1:3, “the dispensation of the Gospel 2 Corinthians 5:19, the Lord of reconciliation; Galatians 2:7, the Gospel of the uncircumcision, being committed to him.”
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
THE BOOK PROPHET MALACHI
Chronological Notes relative to this Book
-Year from the Creation, according to Archbishop Usher, 3607.
-Year from the vocation of Abram, 1524.
-Year since the destruction of Troy, 787.
-Year since the commencement of the kingdom of Israel by the Divine appointment of Saul to the regal dignity, 698.
-Year from the division of Solomon's monarchy into the kingdoms of Israel and Judah, 578.
-Fourth year of the ninety-fifth Olympiad.
-Year from the building of Rome, according to the Varronian computation, 356.
-Year before the vulgar era of Christ's nativity, 397.
-Cycle of the Sun, 5.
-Cycle of the Moon, 4.
CHAPTER I
This chapter begins with showing the great and free favour
which God had manifested to the Israelites, above what he had
done to the Edomites, who are threatened with farther marks of
the Divine displeasure; alluding, perhaps, to the calamities
which they suffered from Judas Maccabeus and John Hyrcanus,
(see 1Macc 5:65, and Joseph. Antiq. xiii. 9,) 1-5.
God then reproaches his people, and especially their priests,
for their ungrateful returns to his distinguished goodness, 6.
They are particularly charged with sacrificing the refuse of
beasts, 7-9,
for which God threatens to reject them, 10,
and choose other nations who will show more reverence to his
name and worship, 11-14.
NOTES ON CHAP. I
Verse Malachi 1:1. The burden of the word of the Lord to Israel by Malachi. — This prophet is undoubtedly the last of the Jewish prophets. He lived after Zechariah and Haggai; for we find that the temple, which was begun in their time, was standing complete in his. See Malachi 3:10. Some have thought that he was contemporary with Nehemiah; indeed, several have supposed that Malachi, is no other than Ezra under the feigned name of angel of the Lord, or my angel. John the Baptist was the link that connected Malachi with Christ. According to Abp. Usher he flourished B.C. 416, but the authorized version, which we have followed in the margin, states this event to have happened nineteen years later. Both the Hebrew language and poetry had declined in his days.
Israel. - Here means the Jewish people in general.
