God warns the priests that unless they honor His name, He will curse their blessings, for they have corrupted the covenant with Levi, a covenant “of life and peace” in which the true priest “walked with me in peace and uprightness.” Instead they have caused many to stumble by their partial, false instruction. The prophet then turns to the people’s faithlessness: they have “profaned the covenant of our fathers” by marrying the daughters of a foreign god, and they deal treacherously with “the wife of your youth,” from whom they divorce. God testifies that He made husband and wife one, seeking “godly offspring,” and declares, “I hate divorce.” The chapter ends with God wearied by those who call evil good and cynically ask, “Where is the God of justice?”
Malachi study chapter
Malachi 2
c. 445 BCGod warns the faithless priests and condemns the people’s treachery in intermarriage and divorce, and their wearying of God.
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