New Living Translation
Malachi 2:11
11Judah has been unfaithful, and a detestable thing has been done in Israel and in Jerusalem. The men of Judah have defiled the Lord’s beloved sanctuary by marrying women who worship idols.
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 have made you despised and humiliated in the eyes of all the people. For you have not obeyed me but have shown favoritism in the way you carry out my instructions.” 10Are we not all children of the same Father? Are we not all created by the same God? Then why do we betray each other, violating the covenant of our ancestors? Judah has been unfaithful, and a detestable thing has been done in Israel and in Jerusalem. The men of Judah have defiled the Lord’s beloved sanctuary by marrying women who worship idols. 12May the Lord cut off from the nation of Israel every last man who has done this and yet brings an offering to the Lord of Heaven’s Armies. 13Here is another thing you do. You cover the Lord’s altar with tears, weeping and groaning because he pays no attention to your offerings and doesn’t accept them with pleasure.
Read all of Malachi 2Malachi 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 in any of these ways, for the people I am driving out before you have defiled themselves in all these ways.
- Jeremiah 7:10and then come here and stand before me in my Temple and chant, “We are safe!”—only to go right back to all those evils again?
- Ezekiel 18:13and lends money at excessive interest. Should such a sinful person live? No! He must die and must take full blame.
- Ezekiel 22:11Within your walls live men who commit adultery with their neighbors’ wives, who defile their daughters-in-law, or who rape their own sisters.
- Revelation 21:8“But cowards, unbelievers, the corrupt, murderers, the immoral, those who practice witchcraft, idol worshipers, and all liars—their fate is in the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death.”
- Exodus 19:5Now if you will obey me and keep my covenant, you will be my own special treasure from among all the peoples on earth; for all the earth belongs to me.
- Leviticus 20:26You must be holy because I, the Lord, am holy. I have set you apart from all other people to be my very own.
- Deuteronomy 7:3You must not intermarry with them. Do not let your daughters and sons marry their sons and daughters,
- Deuteronomy 14:2You have been set apart as holy to the Lord your God, and he has chosen you from all the nations of the earth to be his own special treasure.
- Deuteronomy 33:26“There is no one like the God of Israel. He rides across the heavens to help you, across the skies in majestic splendor.
- Psalms 106:28Then our ancestors joined in the worship of Baal at Peor; they even ate sacrifices offered to the dead!
- Jeremiah 2:3In those days Israel was holy to the Lord, the first of his children. All who harmed his people were declared guilty, and disaster fell on them. I, the Lord, have spoken!”
- Genesis 6:1Then the people began to multiply on the earth, and daughters were born to them.
- Judges 3:6and they intermarried with them. Israelite sons married their daughters, and Israelite daughters were given in marriage to their sons. And the Israelites served their gods.
- 1 Kings 11:1Now King Solomon loved many foreign women. Besides Pharaoh’s daughter, he married women from Moab, Ammon, Edom, Sidon, and from among the Hittites.
- Ezra 9:1When these things had been done, the Jewish leaders came to me and said, “Many of the people of Israel, and even some of the priests and Levites, have not kept themselves separate from the other peoples living in the land. They have taken up the detestable practices of the Canaanites, Hittites, 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
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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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