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Should we put God to test or not?
The two scriptures (Deut. 6:16 and Malachi 3:10) should be read differently because the original Hebrew words for "test" are different in the two verses. In the King James version, the words ...
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Should we put God to test or not?
Do not try the LORD your God, as you did at Massah. (Deut. 6:16, JPS)
לֹ֣א תְנַסּ֔וּ אֶת־יְהוָ֖ה אֱלֹהֵיכֶ֑ם כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר נִסִּיתֶ֖ם בַּמַּסָּֽה׃ (Deut. 6:16, BHS)
Bring the full tithe into the ...
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Why does Jesus change the "me" to "you" in Matthew 11:10
Matthew reports the words of Jesus regarding the specifics noted in the question and Mark takes this up in the opening verses of his own account.
In the opening verses of his gospel account, the ...
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Translation of "šal·laḥ" in Malachi 2:16
Genesis 8:10:
wayyōsep̱p šallaḥ ʾet-hayyônāh min-hattēbāh
and-he-did-again to-send -- the dove from-the-ark
Presumably this was chosen as a comparator because it ...
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The original Hebrew of Malachi 2:16
The related Q&A deals very well with the awkwardnesses of this verse. Here, OP's interest is in whether the Hebrew described there can bear the sense in which YHWH ("The LORD") could be the ...
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How many distinct persons are present in Malachi 3:1-5? Who are they? Can we link them prophetically to persons from the New Testament?
Jesus quotes this passage in Matthew 11:10 :
ιδου εγω αποστελλω τον αγγελον μου προ προσωπου σου ος κατασκευασει την οδον σου εμπροσθεν σου [TR undisputed]
Behold, I send my messenger before thy ...
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In Malachi 3:11, who or what is “the devourer”?
"The devourer" simply means "the one who devours" (or destroys). It refers to anyone or anything known for devouring. In this passage, it refers to whomever or whatever "devoured" or "ate up" or "...
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Does Malachi 3:10 suggest that they did bring part of the tithe?
The Law was that 1/10th of all land production in a year—grain, fruit, herds, and flocks—were to be devoted to God, as Leviticus 27:30-33 (cf. Deut 14:22) indicates (NKJV):
And all the ...
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Has God ordained the divorce decree?
This issue of the apparent conflict between Jesus’ teaching on divorce versus the Law allowing divorce, was posed to Jesus on two separate occasions; Matthew 19:3-19 and Mark 10:2-12. However, the ...
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Did Malachi understand himself to being writing as the last prophet?
It is so so easy to presume in our hindsight history that prophets only knew of what they spoke, but Malachi's perception of his prophetic place is fascinating to consider. Thank you for this question....
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Why did God hate Esau from the womb when he had done no evil?
The answer to this I think can be found in Obadiah chapter 1:
Because of the violence against your brother Jacob,
you will be covered with shame;
you will be destroyed forever. 11 On the day you ...
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Malachi 3:10 "meat" vs "prey"?
No.
the same word is used in Proverbs 31 - a virtuous wife providing "food" not "prey" for her family. Context is people.
She rises also while it is still night And gives food to ...
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Should we put God to test or not?
The difference between the two instances is that the first word תנסו translated in English as ‘test’ is used in the sense to tempt God to go against His will, (in order that He may prove Himself to ...
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Does John the Baptist's ministry precede that of 'God'?
Taking 'precede' to mean coming before someone else (not precedence, as in priority over), then the answer is given by Jesus himself, and is clearly understood.
This happened when John the Baptist ...
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How best to understand the NLT translation of Malachi 2:16?
No one here is going to defend a paraphraistic version (or any other version). The NLT is highly interpretive and should be read as such. It is anything but literal.
The NLT quoted by the OP appears ...
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Translation of "change" in Malachi 3:6
Scope
I won't focus too much on the question of tense here - as others have noted, it tends to not map very cleanly to an English understanding of tense.
Because the core of this question is about the ...
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What is the covenant of Levi?
As Levi was the priestly tribe, this covenant must have had something to do with priesthood, but nowhere in the Bible is the inauguration of such a covenant found. We are merely told that it existed. ...
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In Malachi 3:3 when God says, “He will purify the Levites” was this fulfilled at the cross?
Not at the cross, but at the destruction of the temple - AD 70. Purifying silver or any metal is done through melting in a furnace. It burns off the bad elements, and leaves the pure. Remember Ezek....
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Does Malachi 2:7 and 3:1 prove that "the messenger" will be a levite priest?
Malachi was not speaking to the lineage of the priesthood, but of the duty of the priest as a messenger / angel of the LORD. They were to keep the knowledge of the law and to teach the law to the ...
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Why did God hate Esau from the womb when he had done no evil?
[Rom 9:14-18] What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid. For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion....
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What is priesthood covenant (covenant with Levi) in Malachi 2:4?
What is priesthood covenant (covenant with Levi) in Malachi 2:4?
God made a covenant with the tribe of Levi, Aaron and his sons were to minister as priests to God,the rest of the tribe of Levi was ...
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Did Malachi 4:5, 6 prophesy the coming of John the Baptist?
At first glance the NT appears equivocal on this question. Luke 1:17 quotes Mal 4:5, 6 about John the Baptist but John the Baptist appears to deny the suggestion in John 1:21. What is going on here?
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Did Malachi 4:5, 6 prophesy the coming of John the Baptist?
It is abundantly clear in Mark 1:1 that Mark is asserting that the prophecy of Malachi respects John the Baptist :
As it is written in the prophets, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which ...
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(Malachi 1:12) No tetragrammaton, but capitalised LORD in KJV
In the Massorah, by Christian David Ginsburg (Ktav Publishing House, New York, 1975 [reprint], vol. IV, p. 28, § 115), we are informed about an amount of changes some ancient scribes (sopherim) ...
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Do Malachi 1:2-3 & Romans 9:13 refer to God Loving Jacob & God Hating Esau as hyperbole or a figure of speech, not Calvinism/predestination doctrine?
It is a quick thing to say, that in "but Esau I hated" Romans 9:13, "hated" is relative. I think that to make a case for "hated" being absolute takes longer:
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Malachi 4:6 KJV curse or ESV destruction
The operative word here is חֵרֶם (cherem) whose meaning, as per BDB is listed below in the appendix. This shows that the meaning is primarily "devotion" but when such a bad, evil or shunned ...
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Malachi 4:6 KJV curse or ESV destruction
ESV makes the wrong choice when it translates cherem as a "decree of utter destruction" here. As @Dottard's answer states, the term has several meanings. A good example of how the term is ...
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Malachi 4:6 KJV curse or ESV destruction
The root of the word חרם means to make something prohibited from use. This is what we find in Joshua 7:1:
וַיִּמְעֲל֧וּ בְנֵֽי־יִשְׂרָאֵ֛ל מַ֖עַל בַּחֵ֑רֶם וַיִּקַּ֡ח עָכָ֣ן בֶּן־כַּרְמִי֩ בֶן־...
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