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Malachi 2:11

Jerusalem
Faithfulness and loyaltySin

9 “So I in turn have made you despised and humiliated before all the people, because you have not kept My ways, but have shown partiality in matters of the law.”

10 Do we not all have one Father? Did not one God create us? Why then do we break faith with one another so as to profane the covenant of our fathers?

Judah has broken faith; an abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem. For Judah has profaned the LORD’s beloved sanctuary by marrying the daughter of a foreign god.

12 As for the man who does this, may the LORD cut off from the tents of Jacob everyone who is awake and aware—even if he brings an offering to the LORD of Hosts.

13 And this is another thing you do: You cover the altar of the LORD with tears, with weeping and groaning, because He no longer regards your offerings or receives them gladly from your hands.

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This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
Judah has broken faith; an abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem. For Judah has profaned the LORD’s beloved sanctuary by marrying the daughter of a foreign god.
KJV
Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the holiness of the LORD which he loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange god.
WEB
Judah has dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah has profaned the holiness of the LORD which he loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god.
ASV
Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the holiness of Jehovah which he loveth, and hath married the daughter of a foreign god.
DARBY
Judah hath dealt unfaithfully, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the sanctuary of Jehovah which he loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange God.
BLB
Judah has acted treacherously, and an abomination has been done in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah has profaned the sanctuary of YHWH, which He loves, and he has married the daughter of a foreign god.
ÅB
Juda har vært troløs, og avskyelige ting er gjort i Israel og i Jerusalem; for Juda har vanhelliget Herrens helligdom, som han elsker, og har tatt en fremmed guds døtre til ekte.
OTB
Juda har vært utro, og en styggedom er begått i Israel og i Jerusalem: Juda har vanhelliget helligdommen Herren elsker ved å gifte seg med datteren til en fremmed gud.
B1930
Juda har vært troløs, og vederstyggelige ting er gjort i Israel og i Jerusalem; for Juda har vanhelliget Herrens helligdom, som han elsker, og har tatt en fremmed guds døtre til ekte.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • 2 Corinthians 6:14–18

    Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership can righteousness have with wickedness? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?

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  • Ezra 9:1–2

    After these things had been accomplished, the leaders approached me and said, “The people of Israel, including the priests and Levites, have not kept themselves separate from the surrounding peoples whose abominations are like those of the Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Jebusites, Ammonites, Moabites, Egyptians, and Amorites.

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  • 1 Kings 11:1–8

    King Solomon, however, loved many foreign women along with the daughter of Pharaoh—women of Moab, Ammon, Edom, and Sidon, as well as Hittite women.

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  • Deuteronomy 7:3–6

    Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons,

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  • Nehemiah 13:23–29

    In those days I also saw Jews who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.

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  • Exodus 19:5–6

    Now if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, you will be My treasured possession out of all the nations—for the whole earth is Mine.

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  • Revelation 21:8

    But to the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the second death.”

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  • Leviticus 20:26

    You are to be holy to Me because I, the LORD, am holy, and I have set you apart from the nations to be My own.

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