Passage Research
Malachi 2 — Sermon Preparation
The priests have corrupted the covenant of Levi, and the people have been faithless by marrying foreign women and divorcing the wives of their youth. Below is a research summary for Malachi 2, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.
- 17
- verses
- 269 / 129
- Hebrew words / lemmas
- 21
- classic sermon excerpts
- 5
- preachers & commentators
Malachi 2 in the Hebrew
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Hebrew | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | Glosses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| בָּגַד | bâgad | H898 | 5 | cover, act covertly |
| צָבָא | tsâbâʼ | H6635 | 6 | mass, army |
| בְּרִית | bᵉrîyth | H1285 | 5 | compact |
| תּוֹרָה | tôwrâh | H8451 | 4 | precept, statute |
| שָׁמַר | shâmar | H8104 | 4 | hedge, guard |
| אֶחָד | ʼechâd | H259 | 4 | united, one |
| פֶּרֶשׁ | peresh | H6569 | 2 | excrement, eliminated |
How preachers through history handled this text
21 public-domain excerpts on Malachi 2, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“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 thou hast in the world. The wife is to be looked on, not as a servant, but as a companion to the husband. …”
— Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible (Concise), on Malachi 2:10–30 (Public Domain)
Places in the text
Based on ancient-geography data
- Jerusalem— Mal 2:11
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