Malachi 1:2-3

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2} “I have loved you,”^(A) says the Lord.

But you ask: “How have You loved us?”

“Wasn’t Esau Jacob’s brother?”^(B) This is the Lord’s declaration. “Even so, I loved Jacob, ^{Tools
3} but I hated Esau.^(C) I turned his mountains into a wasteland, and gave his inheritance to the desert jackals.”^(D)

Cross references:

A. Malachi 1:2: Deuteronomy 4:37; Deuteronomy 7:6-8; Deuteronomy 10:14-15; Nehemiah 13:26; Psalm 78:68

B. Malachi 1:2: Genesis 25:25-26; Genesis 36:19

C. Malachi 1:3: Genesis 25:23; Romans 9:10-13

D. Malachi 1:3: Isaiah 34:5-17; Jeremiah 49:7-22; Ezekiel 35:1-15