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**priests.** .
**this commandment.** As to reformation.

**If ye will not hear.** Reference to Pentateuch ([Leviticus 26:14](../../../kjv/leviticus/26/14) .[Deuteronomy 28:15](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/28/15); [Deuteronomy 28:15](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/28/15) ). App-92 .
**My name.** See note on [Psalms 20:1](../../../kjv/psalms/20/1) .
**the LORD of hosts.** See note on [Malachi 1:4](../../../kjv/malachi/1/4) .
**saith** = hath said,
**send a curse** = send the curse. Reference to Pentateuch ([Deuteronomy 28:20](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/28/20) ). App-92 .
**curse your blessings.** Reference to Pentateuch ([Deuteronomy 28:2](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/28/2) ).

**Behold.** Figure of speech *Asterismos* App-6 .
**corrupt** = rebuke; as in [Malachi 3:11](../../../kjv/malachi/3/11) .[Psalms 106:9](../../../kjv/psalms/106/9) . [Isaiah 17:13](../../../kjv/isaiah/17/13) . Hebrew gaar. Occurs fourteen times. Always rendered rebuke" except here, and [Jeremiah 29:27](../../../kjv/jeremiah/29/27) ("reproved").
**dung** = refuse; always sacrificial. Occurs seven times.
**feasts** . Put by Figure of speech *Metonymy* (of Adjunct), App-6 , for the sacrifices offered at the feasts.
**it** : i.e. the refuse.

**be** = contiuue.

**My covenant was with him.** Reference to Pentateuch ([Numbers 25:10-13](../../../kjv/numbers/25/10-13) .[Deuteronomy 33:8](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/33/8) , [Deuteronomy 33:9](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/33/9) , [Deuteronomy 33:10](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/33/10) ). App-92 .
**I gave them,** &c.: I gave this "life" and "peace" to him [Levi] as an awe-inspiring, reverend characteristic; because he stood in awe of Me. There seems to be a distinct reference to Phineas (see the references above). But there seems to be a distinct reference to Levi also ([Exodus 32:26-29](../../../kjv/exodus/32/26-29) ), in the first place, at any rate. Hebrew. *mora* = that which makes awe felt.
**was afraid before** = abased himself.

**in his mouth:** i.e. for teaching.
**and iniquity.** Hebrew. *'aval.* App-44 .
**from iniquity** , Hebrew ' *avah.* App-44 .

**the priest's lips,** &c. This was the first duty of the priests, and was more important than their ceremonial duties. Reference to Pentateuch ([Leviticus 10:11](../../../kjv/leviticus/10/11) .[Deuteronomy 17:11](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/17/11) ; [Deuteronomy 33:10](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/33/10) ). App-92 .
**knowledge** : i.e. esp. of the law.
**they:** i.e. the People; according to [Deuteronomy 17:9-11](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/17/9-11) .

**corrupted** = made void.

**People** = peoples: i.e. the tribes.
**according as** = because, or, in so far as.
**been partial** = had respect of persons. Compare [James 2:4](../../../kjv/james/2/4) .
**in** = in [administering) the law.

**Have we not all. created us?** = [Ye say] Have we not, &c. as in [Malachi 2:14](../../../kjv/malachi/2/14) Figure of speech *Paroemia* . See [John 8:33](../../../kjv/john/8/33) Joh 39:41 &c.
**GOD.** Hebrew. *El* .
**treacherously** : or, faithlessly. Used of faithlessness to the marriage bond.
**every man.** Hebrew. *ish* . App-14 .
**holiness** = Holy Place, or Sanctuary.
**which** : i.e. the Sanctuary.
**strange** = foreign: i.e. a woman temple-worshipper of a foreign god.

**man.** *Hebrew. 'ish.* App-14 .
**the master and the scholar** = wakener and answerer. Referring to the Temple watchers ([Psalms 134:1](../../../kjv/psalms/134/1) ).
**tabernacles** = tents.
**offereth** = bringeth near. Hebrew. *nagash,* as in [Malachi 1:7](../../../kjv/malachi/1/7) , [Malachi 1:8](../../../kjv/malachi/1/8) , [Malachi 1:11](../../../kjv/malachi/1/11) ; [Malachi 3:3](../../../kjv/malachi/3/3) . App-43 .
**offering** = a meal-offering. Hebrew. *minchah.* App-43 .

**tears . . . weeping . . . crying out** : i.e. of the wronged wives and children.

**Wherefore?** Supply the *Ellipsis:* "Wherefore [doth He not accept it]? "
**companion** = consort, or mate.

Modern critics pronounce this as being "a difficult and certainly corrupt passage"; but it is only elliptical.
**make one?** = make [of twain] one flesh? Ref to Pentateuch ([Genesis 2:24](../../../kjv/genesis/2/24) ). App-92 .
**Yet had He,** &c. And therefore could have made more than one wife for Adam.
**spirit.** Hebrew. *ruach.* App-9 .
**And wherefore one?** And what [did] that one [Abraham] who [was] seeking a seed of (or from) God? Hebrew. *zera* ' (as in [Genesis 21:12](../../../kjv/genesis/21/12) ; see note there). The logical *Ellipsis* ' must be further supplied: "Was Abraham faithless to Sarah and did he ill-treat her when he took an additional wife? How mach more ought ye to be faithful to your wives? "
**one.** Refers to Abraham. See [Isaiah 51:2](../../../kjv/isaiah/51/2) .[Ezekiel 33:24](../../../kjv/ezekiel/33/24) . Supply the verb "do", as in [Ecclesiastes 2:12](../../../kjv/ecclesiastes/2/12) , and as in [Judges 18:8](../../../kjv/judges/18/8) , from Mal 2:18 .
**take heed** = be watchful over.
**your** = your own.

**For,** &c. = For [as] hating putting away, hath Jehovah, Israel's God, spoken; and [as hating him that] hath carried violence concealed in his clothing, hath Jehovah Sabaioth spoken, therefore, &c.
**God** = Heh. *Elohim* . App-4 .
**saith** = hath said.
**that He hateth,** &c. = I hate.
**putting away** = divorce. Reference to Pentateuch ([Deuteronomy 24:1](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/24/1) ).
**with his garment.** Compare Pas. Mal 73:6 ; [Psalms 109:18](../../../kjv/psalms/109/18) , [Psalms 109:29](../../../kjv/psalms/109/29) [Proverbs 28:13](../../../kjv/proverbs/28/13) , [Isaiah 30:1](../../../kjv/isaiah/30/1) .

**say** = have said.
**Every one,** &c. Some codices read "All who do wrong are", &c.
**evil** = violence. Hebrew. *ra* ' *a.* App-44 .

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