Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Malachi 1:3

Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Malachi 1:3 - 1:3

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Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Malachi 1:3 - 1:3

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1:3 - 1:3
1:4 - 1:4
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1:6 - 1:6
1:7 - 1:7
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1:10 - 1:10
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1:13 - 1:13
1:14 - 1:14

hated - not positively, but relatively; that is, did not choose him out to be the object of gratuitous favor, as I did Jacob (compare Luk 14:26, with Mat 10:37; Gen 29:30, Gen 29:31; Deu 21:15, Deu 21:16).

laid his mountains ... waste - that is, his territory which was generally mountainous. Israel was, it is true, punished by the Chaldeans, but Edom has been utterly destroyed; namely, either by Nebuchadnezzar [Rosenmuller], or by the neighboring peoples, Egypt, Ammon, and Moab [Josephus, Antiquities, 10.9, 7; Maurer], (Jer 49:18).

dragons - jackals [Moore] (compare Isa 34:13). Maurer translates, “Abodes of the wilderness,” from an Arabic root “to stop,” or “to abide.” English Version is better.