Malachi 2:10-11

Judah’s Marital Unfaithfulness

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10} Don’t all of us have one Father?^(A) Didn’t one God create us?^(B) Why then do we act treacherously against one another,^(C) profaning^(D) the covenant of our fathers?^(E) ^{Tools
11} Judah has acted treacherously, and a detestable^(F) thing has been done in Israel and in Jerusalem. For Judah has profaned^(G) the Lord’s sanctuary,^(a)^(H) which He loves,^(I) and has married the daughter of a foreign god.^(b)^(J)

Footnotes:

a. Malachi 2:11: Or profaned what is holy to the Lord

b. Malachi 2:11: a woman who worshiped a foreign god

Cross references:

A. Malachi 2:10: Exodus 4:22-23; Isaiah 63:16; Malachi 1:6; John 8:41

B. Malachi 2:10: Deuteronomy 32:6; Isaiah 43:1-7; Isaiah 64:8

C. Malachi 2:10: Exodus 21:8; Judges 9:23; Job 6:15; Isaiah 21:2; Jeremiah 3:20

D. Malachi 2:10: Numbers 30:2; Psalm 55:20; Psalm 89:34; Malachi 1:12

E. Malachi 2:10: 1 Kings 8:21

F. Malachi 2:11: Leviticus 18:22-30; Ezra 9:1-14; Nehemiah 13:4-9

G. Malachi 2:11: Jeremiah 16:18; Ezekiel 44:7

H. Malachi 2:11: Exodus 36:1-6

I. Malachi 2:11: Psalm 78:68-69

J. Malachi 2:11: Deuteronomy 7:3-4; Ezra 9:1-2; Ezra 9:10-14; Nehemiah 13:23-30