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New King James Version

Malachi 1:1

The burden [fn] of the word of the Lord to Israel by Malachi.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Malachi;   Thompson Chain Reference - Burden of Prophecy;   Leaders;   Prophets;   Religious;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Prophets;  

Dictionaries:

- Easton Bible Dictionary - Malachi, Prophecies of;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Inspiration;   Malachi;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Oracles;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Angel;   Chittim;   Darius;   Hebrews, Epistle to;   Kittim;   Malachi;   Philip;   Zechariah, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Messenger;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Malachi;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Burden;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Burden;   Malachi;   Nabataeans;   Obadiah, Book of;   Zechariah, Book of;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
A pronouncement:
Hebrew Names Version
An oracle: the word of the LORD to Yisra'el by Mal'akhi.
King James Version (1611)
The burden of the word of ye Lord to Israel by Malachi.
King James Version
The burden of the word of the Lord to Israel by Malachi.
English Standard Version
The oracle of the word of the Lord to Israel by Malachi.
New American Standard Bible
The pronouncement of the word of the LORD to Israel through Malachi:
New Century Version
This message is the word of the Lord given to Israel through Malachi.
Amplified Bible
The oracle (burdensome message) of the word of the LORD to Israel through [My messenger] Malachi.
Geneva Bible (1587)
The burden of the woorde of the Lorde to Israel by the ministerie of Malachi.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
The oracle of the word of the LORD to Israel through Malachi.
Legacy Standard Bible
The oracle of the word of Yahweh to Israel by the hand of Malachi.
Berean Standard Bible
This is an oracle, the word of the LORD to Israel through Malachi:
Contemporary English Version
I am Malachi. And this is the message that the Lord gave me for Israel.
Complete Jewish Bible
A prophecy, the word of Adonai to Isra'el through Mal'akhi:
Darby Translation
The burden of the word of Jehovah to Israel by Malachi.
Easy-to-Read Version
This is a message from the Lord to Israel. God used Malachi to tell this message to the people.
George Lamsa Translation
THE vision of the words of the LORD concerning Israel by Malachi.
Good News Translation
This is the message that the Lord gave Malachi to tell the people of Israel.
Lexham English Bible
An oracle. The word of Yahweh to Israel through Malachi.
Literal Translation
The burden of the Word of Jehovah to Israel by the hand of Malachi:
American Standard Version
The burden of the word of Jehovah to Israel by Malachi.
Bible in Basic English
The word of the Lord to Israel by Malachi.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
The burden of the word of the LORD to Israel by Malachi.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The burthen of the word of the Lorde to Israel, by the ministerie of Malachi.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
The burden of the word of the Lord to Israel by the hand of his messenger. Lay it, I pray you, to heart.
English Revised Version
The burden of the word of the LORD to Israel by Malachi.
World English Bible
An oracle: the word of Yahweh to Israel by Malachi.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The birthun of the word of the Lord to Israel, in the hond of Malachie, the profete.
Update Bible Version
The burden of the word of Yahweh to Israel by Malachi.
Webster's Bible Translation
The burden of the word of the LORD to Israel by Malachi.
New English Translation
What follows is divine revelation. The word of the Lord came to Israel through Malachi:
New Living Translation
This is the message that the Lord gave to Israel through the prophet Malachi.
New Life Bible
This is the Word of the Lord spoken to Israel through Malachi.
New Revised Standard
An oracle. The word of the Lord to Israel by Malachi.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
The oracle of the word of Yahweh, unto Israel, - by the hand of Malachi.
Douay-Rheims Bible
The burden of the word of the Lord to Israel by the hand of Malachias.
Revised Standard Version
The oracle of the word of the LORD to Israel by Mal'achi.
Young's Literal Translation
The burden of a word of Jehovah unto Israel by the hand of Malachi:
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The heuy burthen which the LORDE sheweth agaynst Israel by Malachy.
THE MESSAGE
A Message. God 's Word to Israel through Malachi:

Contextual Overview

1 The burden [fn] of the word of the Lord to Israel by Malachi. 2 "I have loved you," says the LORD. "Yet you say, "In what way have You loved us?' Was not Esau Jacob's brother?" Says the LORD. "Yet Jacob I have loved; 3 But Esau I have hated, And laid waste his mountains and his heritage For the jackals of the wilderness." 4 Even though Edom has said, "We have been impoverished, But we will return and build the desolate places," Thus says the LORD of hosts: "They may build, but I will throw down; They shall be called the Territory of Wickedness, And the people against whom the LORD will have indignation forever. 5 Your eyes shall see, And you shall say, "The LORD is magnified beyond the border of Israel.'

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

Genesis 1:4
And God saw the light, that it was good; and God divided the light from the darkness.
Genesis 1:5
God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. So the evening and the morning were the first day.
Genesis 1:11
Then God said, "Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb that yields seed, and the fruit tree that yields fruit according to its kind, whose seed is in itself, on the earth"; and it was so.
Genesis 1:12
And the earth brought forth grass, the herb that yields seed according to its kind, and the tree that yields fruit, whose seed is in itself according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:16
Then God made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He made the stars also.
Genesis 1:17
God set them in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth,
Genesis 1:19
So the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
Genesis 1:20
Then God said, "Let the waters abound with an abundance of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the face of the firmament of the heavens."
Genesis 1:22
And God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth."
Genesis 1:30
Also, to every beast of the earth, to every bird of the air, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food"; and it was so.

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.


 
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