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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Malachi 2:11 - 2:11
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dealt treacherously - namely, in respect to the Jewish wives who were put away (Mal 2:14; also Mal 2:10, Mal 2:15, Mal 2:16).
profaned the holiness of ... Lord - by ill-treating the Israelites (namely, the wives), who were set apart as a people holy unto the Lord: “the holy seed” (Ezr 9:2; compare Jer 2:3). Or, “the holiness of the Lord” means His holy ordinance and covenant (Deu 7:3). But “which He loved,” seems to refer to the holy people, Israel, whom God so gratuitously loved (Mal 1:2), without merit on their part (Psa 47:4).
married, etc. - (Ezr 9:1, Ezr 9:2; Ezr 10:2; Neh 13:23, etc.).
daughter of a strange god - women worshipping idols: as the worshipper in Scripture is regarded in the relation of a child to a father (Jer 2:27).