Malachi Word Study - Chapter 2

Iyer@brahminbeliever.com | | Updated on Mon 12 November 2018

The version used is ASV

Themes

  • Paganization of Israel
  • Judgement of the priests

Titles of God

  • Jehovah of hosts - 2,4,7,8,12,16
  • God of Israel - 16
  • God of justice - 17

Audience

  • priests of Levitical order 1-9
  • Judah 10-17

Figures of speech

  • Hyperbole - rebuke: spreading dung [3], idolatory: married the daughter of a foreign god [11], unrighteous: covers his garment with violenc[16]
  • Personification - marrying an idol [11],

Repeating words

  • commandment 2 [2:1, 2:4]
  • law 4 [2:7, 2:6, 2:9, 2:8]

  • covenant 5 [2:10, 2:14, 2:5, 2:4, 2:8]

  • mouth 2 [2:7, 2:6]

  • lay 2 [2:2, 2:2]
  • man 2 [2:10, 2:12]
  • thy 3 [2:14, 2:14, 2:14]
  • wife 3 [2:15, 2:14, 2:14]

  • turned 2 [2:6, 2:8]

  • treacherously 5 [2:11, 2:10, 2:15, 2:14, 2:16]

  • Israel 2 [2:11, 2:16]

  • peace 2 [2:5, 2:6]

  • good 2 [2:13, 2:17]

  • wearied 2 [2:17, 2:17]
  • lips 2 [2:7, 2:6]
  • youth 2 [2:15, 2:14]
  • Levi 2 [2:4, 2:8]
  • offering 2 [2:13, 2:12]
  • spirit 2 [2:15, 2:16]
  • seed 2 [2:15, 2:3]
  • heed 2 [2:15, 2:16]
  • curse 2 [2:2, 2:2]
  • dealt 2 [2:11, 2:14]
  • deal 3 [2:10, 2:15, 2:16]

  • against 3 [2:10, 2:15, 2:14]

  • God 3 [2:10, 2:17, 2:16]

  • Jehovah 13 [2:11, 2:13, 2:12, 2:12, 2:14, 2:17, 2:17, 2:16, 2:16, 2:2, 2:4, 2:7, 2:8]
  • ye 16 [2:13, 2:13, 2:14, 2:17, 2:17, 2:16, 2:1, 2:3, 2:2, 2:2, 2:2, 2:4, 2:9, 2:8, 2:8, 2:8]
  • I 8 [2:16, 2:3, 2:2, 2:2, 2:2, 2:5, 2:4, 2:9]

Verb, Pronoun, Conjunction, Adjective

1 And now, O ye priests, this commandment is for you.

v pn conj adj
is
 you
 And
for

2 If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith Jehovah of hosts, then will I send the curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings; yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay it to heart.

v pn conj adj
hear
lay
give
send
curse
have
cursed
do
lay
 it
my
I
you
I
your
I
them
it
 If
and
if
unto
of
upon
and
yea
because
 saith

3 Behold, I will rebuke your seed, and will spread dung upon your faces, even the dung of your feasts; and ye shall be taken away with it.

v pn conj adj
rebuke
spread
dung
faces
ye
be
taken
 I
your
your
your
it
 and
upon
of
and
with

4 And ye shall know that I have sent this commandment unto you, that my covenant may be with Levi, saith Jehovah of hosts.

v pn conj adj
ye
know
have
sent
be
 I
you
my
 And
that
unto
that
with
of
 saith

5 My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him that he might fear; and he feared me, and stood in awe of my name.

v pn conj adj
was
gave
fear
feared
stood
 My
him
I
them
him
he
he
me
my
 with
of
and
and
that
and
and
in
of

6 The law of truth was in his mouth, and unrighteousness was not found in his lips: he walked with me in peace and uprightness, and turned many away from iniquity.

v pn conj adj
was
was
found
walked
turned
 his
his
he
me
 of
in
and
in
with
in
and
and
from
 many

7 For the priests lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth; for he is the messenger of Jehovah of hosts.

v pn conj adj
keep
seek
is
 they
his
he
 For
and
at
for
of
of

8 But ye are turned aside out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble in the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith Jehovah of hosts.

v pn conj adj
are
turned
have
caused
stumble
have
corrupted
 ye
 But
out
of
ye
in
ye
of
of
 many
saith

9 Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as ye have not kept my ways, but have had respect of persons in the law.

v pn conj adj
have
made
according
have
kept
have
had
 I
you
my
 and
before
as
but
of
in
 contemptible

10 Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us? why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, profaning the covenant of our fathers?

v pn conj adj
Have
created
do
deal
profaning
 we
us
we
his
our
 against
of

11 Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the holiness of Jehovah which he loveth, and hath married the daughter of a foreign god.

v pn conj adj
is
committed
profaned
loveth
married
 he
 and
in
and
in
for
of
and
of
 foreign

12 Jehovah will cut off, to the man that doeth this, him that waketh and him that answereth, out of the tents of Jacob, and him that offereth an offering unto Jehovah of hosts.

v pn conj adj
cut
doeth
offereth
 him
him
him
 that
and
out
of
of
and
of
 unto

13 And this again ye do: ye cover the altar of Jehovah with tears, with weeping, and with sighing, insomuch that he regardeth not the offering any more, neither receiveth it with good will at your hand.

v pn conj adj
do
ye
cover
regardeth
receiveth
 he
it
your
 And
of
with
with
and
with
that
neither
with
at
 ye
insomuch
more
good

14 Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because Jehovah hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously, though she is thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.

v pn conj adj
say
been
is
 she
 Because
between
and
of
against
though
and
of
 witness
thy
thou
thy
thy

15 And did he not make one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? And wherefore one? He sought a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.

v pn conj adj
did
make
had
wherefore
sought
take
let
deal
 he
he
He
your
his
 And
although
of
And
and
against
of

16 For I hate putting away, saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, and him that covereth his garment with violence, saith Jehovah of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.

v pn conj adj
hate
putting
covereth
take
 I
him
his
your
 For
of
and
that
with
of
that
 saith
saith
ye

17 Ye have wearied Jehovah with your words. Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied him? In that ye say, Every one that doeth evil is good in the sight of Jehovah, and he delighteth in them; or where is the God of justice?

v pn conj adj
have
wearied
have
wearied
say
doeth
is
delighteth
is
 your
we
him
he
them
 with
Yet
In
in
of
and
in
or
of
 ye
good

Cause & effect

2 Not taking it to heart and not listening to God -> God will send a curse upon us

9 Not keeping Gods ways -> He makes us contemptible and base before all the people

12 Idolator + bring an offering to God -> cut off from the tends of Jacob

14 Not being faithful to our wife -> God no longer accepts our offering

15 Take heed to your spirit & deal with faithfully to the wife or your youth -> Godly seed