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Geneva Study Bible - Malachi 1:1

1:1 The {a} burden of the word of the LORD to Israel by Malachi.(a) See Geneva "Isaiah 13:1" read more

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Malachi 1:1-5

INTRODUCTION What word in Malachi 1:1 indicates that the message, or messages, are in the nature of rebuke rather than comfort? With what declaration does Malachi 1:3 begin? While Jehovah thus declares Himself towards His Israel, how do they receive it? This skeptical insinuation in the interrogation, “Wherein hast thou loved us?” is a peculiarity of the book, and shows the people to have been in a bad spiritual frame, calculated to give birth to the practical sins enumerated later. Be careful... read more

Joseph Parker

The People's Bible by Joseph Parker - Malachi 1:1-14

A Gallery of Pictures Malachi 1-4 We have some pictures in the prophecy that are very vivid, and some of them very humiliating. For example, we have a picture of the utterest selfishness in Malachi 1:10 : "Who is there even among you that would shut the doors for nought? neither do ye kindle fire on mine altar for nought." Yet they sang how good a thing it was to be but a doorkeeper in the house of the Lord. Men do not come to this kind of selfishness all at once. For some degrees of... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Malachi 1:1

CONTENTS The Lord is expostulating with Israel in this Chapter, on their ingratitude; and pointing out in his providences and grace, his distinguishing favor to Jacob, and his judgment on Esau. Malachi 1:1 The title of this prophecy as a burden, is not meant to express a matter grievous in its weight, but blessed in its importance. It is the Lord's burden, and brings with it the Lord's blessing. Burdensome indeed to sinners, but refreshing to saints. read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Malachi 1:1

Malachias, "the angel of the Lord." St. Jerome always reads Malachi, "my angel." Septuagint, "his angel;" whence Origen infers, that this was an angel incarnate. (Calmet) read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Malachi 1:1-5

1-5 All advantages, either as to outward circumstances, or spiritual privileges, come from the free love of God, who makes one to differ from another. All the evils sinners feel and fear, are the just recompence of their crimes, while all their hopes and comforts are from the unmerited mercy of the Lord. He chose his people that they might be holy. If we love him, it is because he has first loved us; yet we all are prone to undervalue the mercies of God, and to excuse our own offences. read more

Frank Binford Hole

F. B. Hole's Old and New Testament Commentary - Malachi 1:1-99

Malachi 1 UNLIKE THE PROPHETS, Haggai and Zechariah, who furnish us with dates in regard to their utterances, Malachi gives us no such details. It seems certain, however, that he wrote about a century later; hence his words reveal how little effect the ministry of these two earlier prophets had produced amongst the masses of the people in the land. As we read through the short book we shall notice that every statement the prophet has to make usually by way of correction is repudiated. The... read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Malachi 1:1-5

God's Peculiar Love For Israel v. 1. The burden of the word of the Lord, the sentence which He found Himself compelled to pronounce, to Israel by Malachi. v. 2. I have loved you, saith the Lord, Jehovah placing this at the head of His message as a fundamental, absolute fact. Yet ye say, in expressing their doubts of His sincerity, Wherein hast Thou loved us? What proofs could He adduce to show the greatness of His love? The form of presentation throughout is nervous, vivid. Was not Esau... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Malachi 1:1-5

SECTION IMalachi 1:1-5God’s peculiar Love to Israel above Edom1, 2The burden1 of the word of the Lord to Israel by Malachi. I have loved2 you, saith the Lord. Yet ye say, wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob’s brother? saith the Lord: yet I loved Jacob, 3And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons3 [jackals] of the wilderness. 4Whereas Edom saith, We are impoverished4 [ruined], but we will return [again] and build the desolate places; thus saith the... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Malachi 1:1-14

Sincerity of Worship Sought Malachi 1:1-14 The love referred to in these opening Malachi 1:1-5 , was exemplified in the divine choice, that through Israel the whole world might be blessed. Hate does not mean positive dislike but a forfeiture of the supreme place of privilege and ministry. Esau’s sensuous nature preferred the mess of pottage to the birthright, and this was characteristic of his people. In Malachi 1:6-14 the prophet turns to the priests. They despised God’s name and without... read more