Malachi 2:7

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Summary

For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the LORD of hosts.

The priest's

The messenger

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Bible References

The priest's

and that you are to teach the children of Israel all the statutes which Yahweh has spoken to them by Moses."

If there arises a matter too hard for you in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within your gates; then you shall arise, and go up to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose;

The priests the sons of Levi shall come near; for them Yahweh your God has chosen to minister to him, and to bless in the name of Yahweh; and according to their word shall every controversy and every stroke be.

Take heed in the plague of leprosy, that you observe diligently, and do according to all that the priests the Levites shall teach you: as I commanded them, so you shall observe to do.

and with them the Levites, even Shemaiah, and Nethaniah, and Zebadiah, and Asahel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehonathan, and Adonijah, and Tobijah, and Tobadonijah, the Levites; and with them Elishama and Jehoram, the priests.

Hezekiah spoke comfortably to all the Levites who had good understanding [in the service] of Yahweh. So they ate throughout the feast for the seven days, offering sacrifices of peace offerings, and making confession to Yahweh, the God of their fathers.

For Ezra had set his heart to seek the law of Yahweh, and to do it, and to teach in Israel statutes and ordinances.

Ezra the priest brought the law before the assembly, both men and women, and all who could hear with understanding, on the first day of the seventh month.

Therefore thus says Yahweh, If you return, then will I bring you again, that you may stand before me; and if you take forth the precious from the vile, you shall be as my mouth: they shall return to you, but you shall not return to them.

Then they said, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.

"Thus says Yahweh of Armies: Ask now the priests concerning the law, saying,

The Lord's servant must not quarrel, but be gentle towards all, able to teach, patient,

The messenger

"Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me; and the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, behold, he comes!" says Yahweh of Armies.

Who is blind, but my servant? Or who is as deaf as my messenger whom I send? Who is as blind as he who is at peace, and as blind as Yahweh's servant?

who confirms the word of his servant, and performs the counsel of his messengers; who says of Jerusalem, 'She will be inhabited;' and of the cities of Judah, 'They will be built,' and 'I will raise up its waste places;'

Then Haggai, Yahweh's messenger, spoke Yahweh's message to the people, saying, "I am with you," says Yahweh.

Most certainly I tell you, he who receives whomever I send, receives me; and he who receives me, receives him who sent me."

Jesus therefore said to them again, "Peace be to you. As the Father has sent me, even so I send you."

Following Paul and us, she cried out, "These men are servants of the Most High God, who proclaim to us a way of salvation!"

We are therefore ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.

That which was a temptation to you in my flesh, you didn't despise nor reject; but you received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.

Therefore he who rejects this doesn't reject man, but God, who has also given his Holy Spirit to you.

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and that you are to teach the children of Israel all the statutes which Yahweh has spoken to them by Moses."

then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before Yahweh, before the priests and the judges who shall be in those days;

The Levites shall answer, and tell all the men of Israel with a loud voice,

They shall teach my people the difference between the holy and the common, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.

"Thus says Yahweh of Armies: Ask now the priests concerning the law, saying,

saying, "The scribes and the Pharisees sat on Moses' seat.