New American Standard Bible 1995
Malachi 2:12
12As for the man who does this, may the 1Lord cut off from the tents of Jacob everyone who awakes and answers, or who 2presents 3an offering to the Lord of hosts.
Malachi 2:12 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)The Lord will cut off the man that doeth this, the master and the scholar, out of the tabernacles of Jacob, and him that offereth an offering unto the Lord of hosts.
- New International Version (NIV)As for the man who does this, whoever he may be, may the Lord remove him from the tents of Jacob—even though he brings an offering to the Lord Almighty.
- English Standard Version (ESV)May the Lord cut off from the tents of Jacob any descendant of the man who does this, who brings an offering to the Lord of hosts!
- New King James Version (NKJV)May the Lord cut off from the tents of Jacob The man who does this, being awake and aware, Yet who brings an offering to the Lord of hosts!
Context of Malachi 2:12
10“Do we not all have one father? Has not one God created us? Why do we deal treacherously each against his brother so as to profane the covenant of our fathers? 11Judah has dealt treacherously, and an 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. As for the man who does this, may the Lord cut off from the tents of Jacob everyone who awakes and answers, or who presents an offering to the Lord of hosts. 13“This is another thing you do: you cover the altar of the Lord with tears, with weeping and with groaning, because He no longer regards the offering or accepts it with favor from your hand. 14Yet you say, ‘For what reason?’ Because the Lord has been a witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant.
Read all of Malachi 2Malachi 2:12 word by word
יַכְרֵ֨ת יְהוָ֜ה לָאִ֨ישׁ אֲשֶׁ֤ר יַעֲשֶׂ֙נָּה֙ עֵ֣ר וְעֹנֶ֔ה מֵאָהֳלֵ֖י יַֽעֲקֹ֑ב וּמַגִּ֣ישׁ מִנְחָ֔ה לַֽיהוָ֖ה צְבָאֽוֹת׃ פRead the interlinear
- for the manאִישׁ'îysh · manH376
- whoאֲשֶׁר'ăsher · whichH834
- doesעָשָׂה‛âώâh · to make: doH6213
- Lordיְהֹוָהyehôvâh · LORDH3068
- cutכָּרַתkârath · to cut: eliminateH3772
- offכָּרַתkârath · to cut: eliminateH3772
- from the tentsאֹ֫הֶל'ôhel · tentH168
- of Jacobיַעֲקֹבya‛ăqôb · JacobH3290
- who awakesעוּר‛ûr · to rouseH5782
- and answersעָנָה‛ânâh · to answerH6030
- presentsנָגַשׁnâgash · to approach: bringH5066
- an offeringמִנְחָהminchâh · offeringH4503
- of hostsצָבָאtsâbâ' tsebâ'âh · HostsH6635
Cross-references for Malachi 2:12
- Leviticus 18:29For whoever does any of these abominations, those persons who do so shall be cut off from among their people.
- Leviticus 20:3I will also set My face against that man and will cut him off from among his people, because he has given some of his offspring to Molech, so as to defile My sanctuary and to profane My holy name.
- Numbers 15:30But the person who does anything defiantly, whether he is native or an alien, that one is blaspheming the Lord; and that person shall be cut off from among his people.
- Joshua 23:12For if you ever go back and cling to the rest of these nations, these which remain among you, and intermarry with them, so that you associate with them and they with you,
- 1 Samuel 2:31Behold, the days are coming when I will break your strength and the strength of your father’s house so that there will not be an old man in your house.
- 1 Chronicles 25:8They cast lots for their duties, all alike, the small as well as the great, the teacher as well as the pupil.
- Ezra 10:18Among the sons of the priests who had married foreign wives were found of the sons of Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and his brothers: Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib and Gedaliah.
- Nehemiah 13:28Even one of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, was a son-in-law of Sanballat the Horonite, so I drove him away from me.
- Isaiah 9:14So the Lord cuts off head and tail from Israel, Both palm branch and bulrush in a single day.
- Isaiah 24:1Behold, the Lord lays the earth waste, devastates it, distorts its surface and scatters its inhabitants.
- Ezekiel 14:10They will bear the punishment of their iniquity; as the iniquity of the inquirer is, so the iniquity of the prophet will be,
- Hosea 4:4Yet let no one find fault, and let none offer reproof; For your people are like those who contend with the priest.
- Matthew 15:14Let them alone; they are blind guides of the blind. And if a blind man guides a blind man, both will fall into a pit.”
- 2 Timothy 3:13But evil men and impostors will proceed from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.
- Revelation 19:20And the beast was seized, and with him the false prophet who performed the signs in his presence, by which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image; these two were thrown alive into the lake of fire which burns with brimstone.
- Numbers 24:5How fair are your tents, O Jacob, Your dwellings, O Israel!
Commentaries on Malachi 2:12
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 12The master and the scholar - He who teachers such doctrine, and he who follows this teaching, the Lord will cut off both the one and the other.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 12The Lord will cut off the man that doeth this, the master and the scholar - , literally “The Lord cut off from the man that doeth this, watcher and answerer.” A proverbial saying apparently, in which the two corresponding classes comprise the whole. Yet so, probably, that the one is the active agent; the other, the passive. The one as a “watcher” goes his rounds, to see that nothing stirreth against that which he is to guard; the other “answereth,” when…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. 12cut off: This phrase means to wipe out or destroy those who do evil. It does not refer to social exclusion or removal from religious worship. Instead, it describes complete judgment.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
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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
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