Malachi 2:1
Meaning, cross-references, and a prayer for Malachi 2:1 — by Collins Asein
Quick Summary
Malachi 2:1 is a verse from the book of Malachi in the Old Testament. The KJV reads: "And now, O ye priests, this commandment is for you." Below you will find the full verse text, cross-references, meaning, and a prayer based on this scripture.
Malachi 2:1 — KJV
“And now, O ye priests, this commandment is for you.”
— Malachi 2:1 (KJV)
Malachi 2:1 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 2:1
“Now both the chief priests and the Pharisees had given a commandment, that, if any man knew where he were, he should shew it, that they might take him.”
Shares key themes with Malachi 2:1: now, priests, commandment
“And Moses said, Wherefore now do ye transgress the commandment of the LORD? but it shall not prosper.”
Shares key themes with Malachi 2:1: now, commandment
“Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go to possess it: go: Heb. pass over”
Shares key themes with Malachi 2:1: now, commandment
“Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;”
Shares key themes with Malachi 2:1: now, commandment
“And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.”
Shares key themes with Malachi 2:1: now, commandment
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