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John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible — Malachi
Gill, John, 1697-1771 · 29,437 words · 38 reading sections
Malachi 1:1
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible. Malachi 1:1 INTRODUCTION TO MALACHI This book, in the Hebrew copies, is called "Sepher Malachi", the Book of Malachi; in the Vulgate Latin version, "the Prophecy of Malachi"; in the Syriac and Arabic versions, "the Prophecy of the Prophet Malachi"; According to Lactantius …
1,572 wordsSECTION 2Malachi 1:2
Malachi 1:2 Ver. 2. I have loved you, saith the Lord,.... Which appeared of old, by choosing them, above all people upon the face of the earth, to be his special and peculiar people; by bestowing peculiar favours and blessings upon them, both temporal and spiritual; by continuing them a people, through a variety of ch…
760 wordsSECTION 3Malachi 1:3
Malachi 1:3 Ver. 3. And I hated Esau,.... Or, "rejected" him, as the Targum; did not love him as Jacob: this was a negative, not positive hatred; it is true of him, personally considered; not only by taking away the birthright and blessing from him, which he despised; but by denying him his special grace, leaving him …
1,071 wordsSECTION 4Malachi 1:4
Malachi 1:4 Ver. 4. Whereas Edom saith, We are impoverished,.... Or the Idumeans, as the Targum; the posterity of Esau, who acknowledge themselves greatly reduced by the desolations made in their country, cities, towns, and houses, being plundered of all their valuable things. Kimchi interprets it, if the congregation…
290 wordsSECTION 5Malachi 1:5
Malachi 1:5 Ver. 5. And your eyes shall see,.... The destruction of the Edomites, and their fruitless attempts to rebuild their desolate places; and the difference between them and the Israelites, who were returned to their own land, and inherited it, when they could not; and the love of God to the one, and his hatred…
220 wordsSECTION 6Malachi 1:6
Malachi 1:6 Ver. 6. A son honoureth [his] father, and a servant his master,.... Or, "will honour", or "should honour"; it is their duty to do so, both according to the laws of God and man; and so the Targum, "lo concerning a son it is said (or commanded) that be should honour his father; and of a servant, that he sho…
517 wordsSECTION 7Malachi 1:7
Malachi 1:7 Ver. 7. Ye offer polluted bread upon mine altar,.... Which some understand of the shewbread, mention being afterwards made of a "table", as Jerom; who observes that it was made of wheat, which the priests themselves sowed, reaped, ground, and baked, and so could take what they would out of it: as for their…
576 wordsSECTION 8Malachi 1:8
Malachi 1:8 Ver. 8. And if ye offer the blind for sacrifice, [is it] not evil?.... Certainly it is, according to the law in Le 22:22 or, as Kimchi interprets it, when they bring to you a lamb that is blind for sacrifice to offer it up, ye say, this is not evil; but it is good to offer it up, because the table is conte…
618 wordsSECTION 9Malachi 1:9
Malachi 1:9 Ver. 9. And now, I pray you, beseech God that he will be gracious unto us,.... These are the words of the prophet to the priests; and are spoken either seriously, exhorting them to that part of their office which lay in interceding for the people that God would be gracious to them, and forgive their sins; …
259 wordsSECTION 10Malachi 1:10
Malachi 1:10 Ver. 10. Who [is there] even among you that would shut the doors [for nought]?.... Either of the temple, as the Targum and Jarchi; for at each of the gates of the temple there were porters appointed in David's time, 1Ch 26:1 and who were paid for their service: or of the court, as Kimchi; the court of the…
3,004 wordsSECTION 11Malachi 2:1
Malachi 2:1 INTRODUCTION TO MALACHI 2 This chapter contains a reproof both of priests and people for their sins. It begins with the priests, Mal 2:1 and threatens, in case they attend not to glorify the name of the Lord, they and their blessings should be cursed, their seed corrupted, dung spread upon them, and they …
511 wordsSECTION 12Malachi 2:2
Malachi 2:2 Ver. 2. If ye will not hear,.... The commandment enjoined them; or the Gospel preached to them by Christ, and his apostles: and if ye will not lay [it] to heart to give glory to my name, saith the Lord of hosts; which they had despised and profaned before; if they did not take care of his worship and serv…
230 wordsSECTION 13Malachi 2:3
Malachi 2:3 Ver. 3. Behold, I will corrupt your seed,.... Or, "the seed for you" {r}; that is, for your sake, as Kimchi and Ben Melech explain it; meaning the seed they cast into the earth, which the Lord threatens to corrupt and destroy; so that it should not spring up again, and bring forth any increase: or, "rebuke…
593 wordsSECTION 14Malachi 2:4
Malachi 2:4 Ver. 4. And ye shall know that I have sent this commandment unto you,.... See Gill on "Mal 2:1": that my covenant might be with Levi, saith the Lord of hosts; not that the ceremonial law might be confirmed and established, on which the Levitical priesthood was founded; for it was the will of God that that…
137 wordsSECTION 15Malachi 2:5
Malachi 2:5 Ver. 5. My covenant was with him of life and peace,.... Not with Aaron, nor with Phinehas; nor is it to be understood of a covenant, promising temporal life and outward prosperity to either of them; Aaron living a hundred and twenty three years, Nu 33:39 and Phinehas, according to some Jewish writers, abov…
620 wordsSECTION 16Malachi 2:6
Malachi 2:6 Ver. 6. The law of truth was in his mouth,.... The Gospel, the word and doctrine of truth; which comes from the God of truth; is concerning Christ the truth and men are guided into it by the Spirit of truth; it contains most glorious truths, and nothing but truth: and this was in the mouth of Christ, being…
392 wordsSECTION 17Malachi 2:7
Malachi 2:7 Ver. 7. For the priest's lips should keep knowledge,.... Or "shall keep knowledge", as the Septuagint and Vulgate Latin versions; or "do keep knowledge", as the Arabic version; and so the Syriac version, "for the lips of the priest drop knowledge"; all this is true of Christ our great High Priest; for as i…
317 wordsSECTION 18Malachi 2:8
Malachi 2:8 Ver. 8. But ye are departed out of the way,.... Of truth and righteousness, of life and peace, of eternal salvation and happiness, pointed to by Christ and his forerunner, and by his apostles and ministers that followed him, and which was clearly showed in the preaching of the Gospel: this was the characte…
248 wordsSECTION 19Malachi 2:9
Malachi 2:9 Ver. 9. Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base,.... When their city and temple were destroyed by the Romans, and they were carried captive by them, and became a taunt and a proverb in all places where they came: before all the people; the nations of the world, among whom they were scattered:…
228 wordsSECTION 20Malachi 2:10
Malachi 2:10 Ver. 10. Have we not all one father?.... Whether this is understood of Adam the first man, of whose blood all nations of the earth are made, and who in the same sense is the father of all living, as Eve was the mother of all living; or of Abraham the father of the Jewish people, of whom, as their father, …
317 wordsSECTION 21Malachi 2:11
Malachi 2:11 Ver. 11. Judah hath dealt treacherously,.... Not only every man against his brother, by being partial in the law; or against the women of their nation, by marrying others; or against their wives, by putting them away; but against Christ the Son of God by betraying and delivering him up into the hands of t…
407 wordsSECTION 22Malachi 2:12
Malachi 2:12 Ver. 12. The Lord will cut off the man that doeth this,.... That is guilty of such treachery, wickedness, and idolatry: or "to the man that doeth this" {y}; all that belong to him, his children and substance: it denotes the utter destruction, not of a single man and his family only, but of the whole Jewis…
3,727 wordsSECTION 23Malachi 3:1
Malachi 3:1 INTRODUCTION TO MALACHI 3 This chapter begins with a prophecy of John the Baptist, the forerunner of Christ; and of the coming of Christ, and the effects and consequences of it, with respect both to the righteous and the wicked; and it contains accusations and charges of sin against the Jews, intermixed w…
1,387 wordsSECTION 24Malachi 3:2
Malachi 3:2 Ver. 2. But who may abide the day of his coming?.... When he should be manifest in Israel, and come preaching the Gospel of the kingdom; who could bear the doctrines delivered by him, concerning his deity and equality with God the Father; concerning his character and mission as the Messiah, and his kingdom…
587 wordsSECTION 25Malachi 3:3
Malachi 3:3 Ver. 3. And he shall sit [as] a refiner, and purifier of silver,.... Kimchi interprets this, as he does the latter part of the preceding verse Mal 3:2, of the day, and not of the Lord, which he compares to a judge that sits and separates the guilty from the innocent; see 1Co 3:13 but it is to be understood…
634 wordsSECTION 26Malachi 3:4
Malachi 3:4 Ver. 4. Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant unto the Lord,.... Or "sweet" {b}; grateful and well pleasing to him, as all spiritual sacrifices are acceptable to God through Christ, being offered up in the faith of his atoning sacrifice and righteousness, without which it is impossible…
118 wordsSECTION 27Malachi 3:5
Malachi 3:5 Ver. 5. And I will come near to you to judgment,.... And so will manifestly appear to be the God of judgment they asked after, Mal 2:17 this is not to be understood of Christ's coming to judgment at the last day, but of his coming to judge and punish the wicked Jews at the time of Jerusalem's destruction; …
414 wordsSECTION 28Malachi 3:6
Malachi 3:6 Ver. 6. For I [am] the Lord,.... Or Jehovah; a name peculiar to the most High, and so a proof of the deity of Christ, who here speaks; and is expressive of his being; of his self-existence; of his purity and simplicity; of his immensity and infinity; and of his eternity and sovereignty: I change not; bein…
291 wordsSECTION 29Malachi 3:7
Malachi 3:7 Ver. 7. Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances,.... Here begins an enumeration of the sins of the Jews, which were the cause of their ruin; and here is first a general charge of apostasy from the statutes and ordinances of the law, which they made void by the traditions of…
340 wordsSECTION 30Malachi 3:8
Malachi 3:8 Ver. 8. Will a man rob God?.... Or "the gods"; the false gods, the idols of the Gentiles; the Heathens will not do that, accounting sacrilege a great sin, and yet this the Jews were guilty of: or "the judges" {c}, as the Targum; civil magistrates; will any dare to defraud them of their due? see Mal 1:8. Y…
330 wordsSECTION 31Malachi 3:9
Malachi 3:9 Ver. 9. Ye [are] cursed with a curse,.... Or "with penury", as the Vulgate Latin version; which, though not a proper rendering of the word, is the meaning of the curse they were cursed with; rain was withheld from them for their sins, and the earth did not bring forth its usual increase; wherefore there wa…
241 wordsSECTION 32Malachi 3:10
Malachi 3:10 Ver. 10. Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse,.... Or "treasury" {e}; for there were places in the temple where the tithe was put, and from thence distributed to the priests and Levites, for the support of their families, as they wanted. There were the tithe or tenth part of all eatable things paid…
4,276 wordsSECTION 33Malachi 4:1
Malachi 4:1 INTRODUCTION TO MALACHI 4 This chapter contains an account of the destruction of the wicked Jews, and the happiness of the righteous by the coming of the Messiah; an exhortation to regard the law of Moses; and a description of John the Baptist and his work. The day of Christ's coming, reaching to Jerusale…
566 wordsSECTION 34Malachi 4:2
Malachi 4:2 Ver. 2. But unto you that fear my name,.... The few that were of this character among that wicked nation; See Gill on "Mal 3:16": shall the Sun of righteousness arise; not the Holy Ghost, who enlightens sinners, convinces of righteousness, and gives joy, peace, and comfort to the saints, but Christ: and t…
2,118 wordsSECTION 35Malachi 4:3
Malachi 4:3 Ver. 3. And ye shall tread down the wicked,.... As grapes in the winepress, as Christ did before them, Isa 63:2 and they by virtue of him; who makes them more than conquerors through himself, over all their enemies, spiritual and temporal: for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet; this refers …
234 wordsSECTION 36Malachi 4:4
Malachi 4:4 Ver. 4. Remember ye the law of Moses my servant,.... Who was faithful as such in the house of God, in delivering the law to the children of Israel, which was given him; and who are called upon to remember it, its precepts and its penalties, which they were apt to forget: and particularly this exhortation i…
544 wordsSECTION 37Malachi 4:5
Malachi 4:5 Ver. 5. Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet,.... Not the Tishbite, as the Septuagint version wrongly inserts instead of prophet; not Elijah in person, who lived in the times of Ahab; but John the Baptist, who was to come in the power and spirit of Elijah, Lu 1:17 between whom there was a great liken…
412 wordsSECTION 38Malachi 4:6
Malachi 4:6 Ver. 6. And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children,.... Or "with" the children, as Kimchi; and Ben Melech observes, that le is put for Me, and so in the next clause: and the heart of the children to their fathers; or "with" their fathers; that is, both fathers and children: the meaning is,…
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Public domain; John Gill (1697–1771). Source item is marked Public Domain on Internet Archive.
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