Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Malachi 2:14

Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Malachi 2:14 - 2:14

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Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Malachi 2:14 - 2:14

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This Chapter Verse Commentaries:

2:1 - 2:1
2:2 - 2:2
2:3 - 2:3
2:4 - 2:4
2:5 - 2:5
2:6 - 2:6
2:7 - 2:7
2:8 - 2:8
2:9 - 2:9
2:10 - 2:10
2:11 - 2:11
2:12 - 2:12
2:13 - 2:13
2:14 - 2:14
2:15 - 2:15
2:16 - 2:16
2:17 - 2:17

Wherefore? - Why does God reject our offerings?

Lord ... witness between thee and ... wife - (so Gen 31:49, Gen 31:50).

of thy youth - The Jews still marry very young, the husband often being but thirteen years of age, the wife younger (Pro 5:18; Isa 54:6).

wife of thy covenant - not merely joined to thee by the marriage covenant generally, but by the covenant between God and Israel, the covenant-people, whereby a sin against a wife, a daughter of Israel, is a sin against God [Moore]. Marriage also is called “the covenant of God” (Pro 2:17), and to it the reference may be (Gen 2:24; Mat 19:6; 1Co 7:10).