Malachi 2:16 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Malachi 2:10-17

Corrupt practices are the genuine fruit and product of corrupt principles; and the badness of men's hearts and lives is owing to some loose atheistical notions which they have got and which they govern themselves by. Now, in these verses, we have an instance of this; we here find men dealing falsely with one another, and it is because they think falsely of their God. Observe, I. How corrupt their practices were. In general, they dealt treacherously every man against his brother, Mal. 2:10. It... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Malachi 2:16

For the Lord the God of Israel saith, that he hateth putting away ,.... The divorcing of wives; for though this was suffered because of the hardness of their hearts, it was not approved of by the Lord; nor was it from the beginning; and it was disagreeable, and even hateful to him, Matthew 19:8 in the margin of some Bibles the words are rendered, "if he hate her, put her away"; and so the Targum, "but if thou hatest her, put her away;' to which agree the Vulgate Latin, Septuagint, and... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Malachi 2:16

For the Lord - hateth putting away - He abominates all such divorces, and him that makes them. Covereth violence with his garment - And he also notes those who frame idle excuses to cover the violence they have done to the wives of their youth, by putting them away, and taking others in their place, whom they now happen to like better, when their own wives have been worn down in domestic services. read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Malachi 2:16

Verse 16 Here again the Prophet exaggerates the crime which the priests regarded as nothing; for he says, that they sinned more grievously than if they had repudiated their wives. We indeed know that repudiation, properly speaking, had never been allowed by God; for though it was not punished under the law, yet it was not permitted. (236) It was the same as with a magistrate, who is constrained to bear many things which he does not approve; for we cannot so deal with mankind as to restrain all... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Malachi 2:10-16

Part II . CONDEMNATION OF PRIESTS AND PEOPLE FOR ALIEN MARRIAGES AND FOR DIVORCES . read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Malachi 2:10-16

The sin of conjugal unfaithfulness. We here use the term "unfaithfulness" in its widest sense, extending far beyond the sin of unchastity. We note— I. UNFAITHFULNESS TO GOD IS THE ROOT SIN OF ALL OTHER FORMS OF INFIDELITY . The sins denounced in the earlier verses of this book are quite sufficient to account for the criminality here exposed. Those who profane the "covenant" and the "holiness" of God in their hearts, and who do not seek "to give glory" to his... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Malachi 2:14-16

The Divine institution of marriage. "Yet ye say, Wherefore?" etc. The subject of these verses is the Divine institution of marriage. In relation to this institution we observe— I. THAT IT IMPLIES A LOVING UNION OF TWO , AND ONLY TWO , SOULS UNTIL DEATH . "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. And did not he make one?" "Wife... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Malachi 2:16

He hateth putting away. This is another reason against divorce: God hates it. It is contrary to his original institution, and was only allowed for the hardness of men's hearts (see Deuteronomy 24:1 , etc.; Matthew 19:3-9 ). Septuagint, "If thou hate her and dismiss her," etc.; Vulgate, "If thou hate her, put her away," which seems to encourage divorce, whereas in the context divorce is strongly condemned. Hence Jerome considers these words to be spoken by the Jews, quoting in their... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Malachi 2:16

He hateth putting away - o He had allowed it “for the hardness of their hearts,” yet only in the one case of some extreme bodily foulness discovered upon marriage, and which the woman, knowing the law, concealed at her own peril. Not subsequent illness or any consequences of it, however loathsome (as leprosy), were a ground of divorce, but only this concealed foulness, which the husband “found” upon marriage. The capricious tyrannical divorce, God saith, “He hateth:” a word Naturally used only... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Malachi 2:16

Malachi 2:16. For the Lord God of Israel saith that he hateth putting away He allowed the Jews liberty of divorce only for the hardness of their hearts, Matthew 19:8, not that it was a thing pleasing to him. For one covereth violence with his garment Or, And when one puts violence upon his garment, or covers his garment with violence, as Dr. Pocock translates it, who hath given the clearest sense of this phrase, and showed, out of several eastern writers, that they usually call a... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Malachi 2:10-17

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Malachi 2:16

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Malachi 2:16

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Malachi 2:16

The Pulpit Commentary - Malachi 2:10-16

The Pulpit Commentary - Malachi 2:10-16

The Pulpit Commentary - Malachi 2:14-16

The Pulpit Commentary - Malachi 2:16

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Malachi 2:16

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Malachi 2:16

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