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Maleakhi 3:7
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Sejak zaman nenek moyangmu kamu telah menyimpang dari ketetapan-Ku dan tidak memeliharanya. Kembalilah kepada-Ku, maka Aku akan kembali kepadamu, firman TUHAN semesta alam. Tetapi kamu berkata: "Dengan cara bagaimanakah kami harus kembali?"
Dari pada zaman nenek moyangmu juga kamu sudah undur dari pada segala syariat-Ku, dan tiada kamu memeliharakan dia. Hendaklah kamu kembali kepada-Ku, maka Akupun akan kembali kelak kepada kamu, demikianlah firman Tuhan serwa sekalian alam! Tetapi katamu: Dalam hal yang mana kami akan kembali?
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
from the: Deuteronomy 9:7-21, Deuteronomy 31:20, Deuteronomy 31:27-29, Nehemiah 9:16, Nehemiah 9:17, Nehemiah 9:26, Nehemiah 9:28-30, Psalms 78:8-10, Ezekiel 20:8, Ezekiel 20:13, Ezekiel 20:21, Ezekiel 20:28, Luke 11:48-51, Acts 7:51, Acts 7:52
Return unto me: Leviticus 26:40-42, Deuteronomy 4:29-31, Deuteronomy 30:1-4, 1 Kings 8:47-49, Nehemiah 1:8, Nehemiah 1:9, Isaiah 55:6, Isaiah 55:7, Jeremiah 3:12-14, Jeremiah 3:22, Ezekiel 18:30-32, Hosea 14:1, Zechariah 1:3, James 4:8
Wherein: Malachi 3:13, Malachi 1:6, Isaiah 65:2, Matthew 23:27, Luke 15:16, Romans 7:9, Romans 10:3, Romans 10:21
Reciprocal: Psalms 6:4 - Return Psalms 80:14 - Return Isaiah 43:27 - first father Ezekiel 18:17 - he shall not Ezekiel 24:19 - General Daniel 9:5 - departing Malachi 1:2 - Wherein
Cross-References
And they were both naked the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
For God doth knowe, that the same day that ye eate therof, your eyes shall be opened, and ye shalbe eue as gods, knowyng good and euyll.
Which sayde: I hearde thy voyce in the garden, and was afrayde because I was naked, and hyd my selfe.
And he sayde: Who tolde thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou not eaten of the same tree, concernyng the which I commaunded thee that thou shouldest not eate of it?
So that thou shalt be cleane beside thy self, for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.
But it fortuned that when they were come to Samaria, Elisa sayde: Lorde, open their eyes that they may see. And the Lorde opened their eyes, and they sawe, & behold they were in the middes of Samaria.
For the bed is narrowe and not large, and the couering so small that a man can not winde him selfe [vnder it.]
Their webbe maketh no cloth, and they may not couer them with their labours: their deedes are the deedes of wickednesse, and the worke of robberie is in their handes.
And beyng in hell in tormentes, he lyft vp his eyes, and sawe Abraham a farre of, and Lazarus in his bosome,
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances,.... Here begins an enumeration of the sins of the Jews, which were the cause of their ruin; and here is first a general charge of apostasy from the statutes and ordinances of the law, which they made void by the traditions of the fathers; and therefore this word is used as referring to this evil, as well as to express their early, long, and continued departure from the ways of God; which as it was an aggravation of their sin, that they should have so long ago forsook the ordinances of God,
and have not kept [them], but transgressed them by observing the traditions of men, Matthew 15:3 so it is an instance of the patience and forbearance of God, that they were not as yet consumed; and of his grace and goodness, that he should address them as follows:
Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the Lord of hosts; this message was carried to them by John the Baptist, the forerunner of Christ, and by Christ himself, who both preached the doctrine of repentance to this people, Matthew 3:2. The Targum is,
"return to my worship, and I will look in my word to do well unto you, saith the Lord of hosts;''
and such who returned, and believed in Christ, and submitted to his ordinances, it was well with them.
But ye said, Wherein shall we return? what have we to turn from, or repent of? what evils have we done, or can be charged on us? what need have we of repentance or conversion, or of such an exhortation to it? do not we keep the law, and all the rituals of it? this is the true language of the Pharisees in Christ's time, who, touching the righteousness of the law, were blameless in their own esteem, and were the ninety and nine just persons that needed not repentance,
Luke 15:7.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Even from the days of your fathers - Back to those days and from them ye are gone away from My ordinances. “I am not changed from good; ye are not changed from evil. I am unchangeable in holiness; ye are unchangeable in perversity.”
Return unto Me - The beginning of our return is from the preventing grace of God. Jeremiah 31:18; Lamentations 5:21, “turn Thou me, and I shall be turned, for Thou art the Lord my God,” is the voice of the soul to God, preparing for His grace; Psalms 85:4, “turn us, O God of our salvation.” For, not in its own strength, but by His grace can the soul turn to God. “Turn thou to Me and I will return unto you,” is the Voice of God, acknowledging our free-will, and promising His favor, if we accept His grace in return.
And ye say, Wherein shall we return? - Strange ignorance of the blinded soul, unconscious that God has aught against it! It is the Pharisaic spirit in the Gospel. It would own itself doubtless in general terms a sinner, but when called on, wholly to turn to God, as being wholly turned from Him, it asks, “In what? What would God have of me?” as if ready to do it.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Malachi 3:7. Gone away from mine ordinances — Never acting according to their spirit and design.
Return unto me — There is still space to repent.
Wherein shall we return? — Their consciences were seared, and they knew not that they were sinners.
