Malachi 1:2 · KJV
“I have loved you, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? {Was} not Esau Jacob's brother? saith the LORD: yet I loved Jacob,”
— Malachi 1:2
The burden of the word of the LORD to Israel by Malachi. {by...: Heb. by the hand of}
And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.
Malachi 1 — Context
The burden of the word of the LORD to Israel by Malachi. {by...: Heb. by the hand of}
2I have loved you, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? {Was} not Esau Jacob's brother? saith the LORD: yet I loved Jacob,
3And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.
4Whereas Edom saith, We are impoverished, but we will return and build the desolate places; thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall build, but I will throw down; and they shall call them, The border of wickedness, and, The people against whom the LORD hath indignation for ever.
Cross References
Jeremiah 31:3
The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, {saying}, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee. {of...: Heb. from afar} {with lovingkindness...: have I extended lovingkindness unto thee}
Isaiah 41:8-9
But thou, Israel, {art} my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend.
Deuteronomy 10:15
Only the LORD had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, {even} you above all people, as {it is} this day.
Romans 9:10-13
And not only {this}; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, {even} by our father Isaac;
Malachi 3:7-8
Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances, and have not kept {them}. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the LORD of hosts. But ye said, Wherein shall we return?
Deuteronomy 32:8-14
When the most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.
Deuteronomy 4:37
And because he loved thy fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought thee out in his sight with his mighty power out of Egypt;
Deuteronomy 7:6-8
For thou {art} an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that {are} upon the face of the earth.
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