Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Malachi 1:1

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1. burden —heavy sentence. to Israel —represented now by the two tribes of Judah and Benjamin, with individuals of the ten tribes who had returned with the Jews from Babylon. So "Israel" is used, Ezra 7:10 . Compare Ezra 7:10- : , "Jehoshaphat king of Israel, " where Judah, rather than the ten tribes, is regarded as the truest representative of Israel (compare 2 Chronicles 12:6 ; 2 Chronicles 28:19 ). Malachi —see 2 Chronicles 28:19- : God sent no prophet after him till John the Baptist, the forerunner of Christ, in order to enflame His people with the more ardent desire for Him, the great antitype and fulfiller of prophecy. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-2" class="com-number"

Pericope (part_of)

• part_of pericope/per-mal-1-001

절 (explains)

bible-text/mal-1-1

Source

• source-manifest/jfb — Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (PD)
• evidence_grade: T_theological