Malachi 1:3
Meaning, cross-references, and a prayer for Malachi 1:3 — by Collins Asein
Quick Summary
Malachi 1:3 is a verse from the book of Malachi in the Old Testament. The KJV reads: "And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness." Below you will find the full verse text, cross-references, meaning, and a prayer based on this scripture.
Malachi 1:3 — KJV
“And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.”
— Malachi 1:3 (KJV)
Malachi 1:3 in Context — About the Book of Malachi
Malachi closes the Old Testament with a courtroom dialogue — God answering a weary nation's accusations about love, honor, tithes, and justice. It contains Scripture's only invitation to test God: bring the whole tithe and watch heaven's floodgates open. Then four hundred years of silence until John the Baptist.
Cross-References for Malachi 1:3
“Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.”
Shares key themes with Malachi 1:3: laid, mountains, wilderness
“And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then will I slay my brother Jacob.”
Shares key themes with Malachi 1:3: hated, esau
“And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness. wander: or, feed”
Shares key themes with Malachi 1:3: waste, wilderness
“We have shot at them; Heshbon is perished even unto Dibon, and we have laid them waste even unto Nophah, which reacheth unto Medeba.”
Shares key themes with Malachi 1:3: laid, waste
“And when we passed by from our brethren the children of Esau, which dwelt in Seir, through the way of the plain from Elath, and from Eziongaber, we turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab.”
Shares key themes with Malachi 1:3: esau, wilderness
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