Malachi 2:11

Malachi 2:11 in other versions

• King James Version (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.
• New International Version (NIV)Judah has been unfaithful. A detestable thing has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem: Judah has desecrated the sanctuary the Lord loves by marrying women who worship a foreign god.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Judah has been faithless, and abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem. For Judah has profaned the sanctuary of the Lord, which he loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Judah has dealt treacherously, And an abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem, For Judah has profaned The Lord’s holy institution which He loves: He has married the daughter of a foreign god.

Context of Malachi 2:11

9“So I in turn have made you despised and humiliated before all the people because you are not keeping my ways but are showing partiality in your instruction.” 10Don’t all of us have one Father? Didn’t one God create us? Why then do we act treacherously against one another, profaning the covenant of our ancestors? Judah has acted treacherously, and a detestable act has been done in Israel and in Jerusalem. For Judah has profaned the Lord’s sanctuary, which he loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god. 12May the Lord cut off from the tents of Jacob the man who does this, whoever he may be, even if he presents an offering to the Lord of Armies. 13This is another thing you do. You are covering the Lord’s altar with tears, with weeping and groaning, because he no longer respects your offerings or receives them gladly from your hands.

Malachi 2:11 word by word

בָּגְדָ֣ה יְהוּדָ֔ה וְתוֹעֵבָ֛ה נֶעֶשְׂתָ֥ה בְיִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל וּבִירֽוּשָׁלִָ֑ם כִּ֣י׀ חִלֵּ֣ל יְהוּדָ֗ה קֹ֤דֶשׁ יְהוָה֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר אָהֵ֔ב וּבָעַ֖ל בַּת־אֵ֥ל נֵכָֽר׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Judahיְהוּדָהyehûdâh · JudahH3063
• hath dealt treacherouslyבָּגַדbâgad · to act treacherouslyH898
• and an abominationתּוֹעֵבַהtô‛êbah tô‛êbah · abominationH8441
• is committedעָשָׂה‛âώâh · to makeH6213
• in Israelיִשְׂרָאֵלyiώrâ'êl · IsraelH3478
• and in Jerusalemיְרוּשָׁלִַ֫ם, יְרוּשְׁלֵםyerûshâlaim yerûshâlayim · JerusalemH3389
• hath profanedחָלַלchâlal · to profane/begin: profaneH2490
• the holinessקֹ֫דֶשׁqôdesh · holinessH6944
• of the Lordיְהֹוָהyehôvâh · LORDH3068
• which he lovedאָהֵב'âhab 'âhêb · to love: loverH157
• and hath marriedבָּעַלbâ‛al · rule: to marryH1166
• the daughterבַּתbath · daughterH1323
• of a strangeנֵכָרnêkâr · foreignH5236
• godאֵל'êl · godH410

Cross-references for Malachi 2:11

• Leviticus 18:24“Do not defile yourselves by any of these practices, for the nations I am driving out before you have defiled themselves by all these things.
• Jeremiah 7:10Then do you come and stand before me in this house that bears my name and say, “We are rescued, so we can continue doing all these detestable acts”?
• Ezekiel 18:13and lends at interest or for profit, will he live? He will not live! Since he has committed all these detestable acts, he will certainly die. His death will be his own fault.
• Ezekiel 22:11One man within you commits a detestable act with his neighbor’s wife; another defiles his daughter-in-law with depravity; and yet another violates his sister, his father’s daughter.
• Revelation 21:8But the cowards, faithless, detestable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars — their share will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”
• Exodus 19:5Now if you will carefully listen to me and keep my covenant, you will be my own possession out of all the peoples, although the whole earth is mine,
• Leviticus 20:26You are to be holy to me because I, the Lord, am holy, and I have set you apart from the nations to be mine.
• Deuteronomy 7:3You must not intermarry with them, and you must not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons,
• Deuteronomy 14:2for you are a holy people belonging to the Lord your God. The Lord has chosen you to be his own possession out of all the peoples on the face of the earth.
• Deuteronomy 33:26There is none like the God of Jeshurun, who rides the heavens to your aid, the clouds in his majesty.
• Psalms 106:28They aligned themselves with Baal of Peor and ate sacrifices offered to lifeless gods.
• Jeremiah 2:3Israel was holy to the Lord, the firstfruits of his harvest. All who ate of it found themselves guilty; disaster came on them.” This is the Lord’s declaration.
• Genesis 6:1When mankind began to multiply on the earth and daughters were born to them,
• Judges 3:6The Israelites took their daughters as wives for themselves, gave their own daughters to their sons, and worshiped their gods.
• 1 Kings 11:1King Solomon loved many foreign women in addition to Pharaoh’s daughter: Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women
• Ezra 9:1After these things had been done, the leaders approached me and said, “The people of Israel, the priests, and the Levites have not separated themselves from the surrounding peoples whose detestable practices are like those of the Canaanites, Hethites, Perizzites, Jebusites, Ammonites, Moabites, Egyptians, and Amorites.

Commentaries on Malachi 2:11

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 11Daughter of a strange god - Of a man who worships an idol.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 11Treacherously has Judah dealt; an abomination is committed in Israel - The prophet, by the order of the words, emphasizes the “treachery” and the “abomination.” This have they done; the very contrary to what was required of them as the people of God. He calls the remnant of Judah by the sacred name of the whole people, of whom they were the surviving representatives. The word “abomination” is a word belonging to the Hebrew, and is used especially of…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 10-17Verses 10-17 Corrupt practices are the fruit of corrupt principles; and he who is false to his God, will not be true to his fellow mortals. In contempt of the marriage covenant, which God instituted, the Jews put away the wives they had of their own nation, probably to make room for strange wives. They made their lives bitter to them; yet, in the sight of others, they pretend to be tender of them. Consider she is thy wife; thy own; the nearest relation…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 11Judah has broken faith; an abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem: Men were divorcing their wives to marry non-Israelite women for economic gain. These marriages allowed Jewish men to join existing merchant groups and trade networks when they returned from Babylonia. Malachi compares this unfaithfulness to idol worship. In Israelite history, marrying foreign women often led to worshiping foreign gods. Loyalty was essential in Israel's…Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 10-1610-16. Reproof of those who contracted marriages with foreigners and repudiated their Jewish wives. 10. Have we not all one father?--Why, seeing we all have one common origin, "do we deal treacherously against one another" ("His brother" being a general expression implying that all are "brethren" and sisters as children of the same Father above (1Th 4:3-6), and so including the wives so injured)? namely, by putting away our Jewish wives, and taking…Read the comment

Topics related to Malachi 2:11

• Idolatry
• Marriage
• Wicked (People)

In the dictionaries

• God
• Israel
• Jerusalem
• Judah
• Israel, Israelites
• Jacob, Israel
• Judah, kingdom of Judah
• Judea, Judah
• god, false god, goddess, idol, idolater, idolatrous, idolatry
• Corrupt

Commentaries on Malachi 2

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings