Malachi 2:8

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

But ye are departed out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble at the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith the LORD of hosts.

Ye are

Ye have caused

Ye have corrupted

Malachi 2:5

Leviticus 21:15

Nehemiah 13:29

General references

Deuteronomy 27:14

Ezekiel 44:23

Bible References

Ye are

For I have kept the ways of the Lord,
And have not wickedly departed from my God.

I have not turned aside from Your ordinances,
For You Yourself have taught me.

“Get out of the way, turn aside from the path,

Let us hear no more about the Holy One of Israel.”

Transgressing and denying the Lord,
And turning away from our God,
Speaking oppression and revolt,
Conceiving in and uttering from the heart lying words.

Thus says the Lord,
“Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind
And makes flesh his strength,
And whose heart turns away from the Lord.

But the Levites who went far from Me when Israel went astray, who went astray from Me after their idols, shall bear the punishment for their iniquity.

we have sinned, committed iniquity, acted wickedly and rebelled, even turning aside from Your commandments and ordinances.

Take care, brethren, that there not be in any one of you an evil, unbelieving heart that falls away from the living God.

Ye have caused

“So I also have made you despised and abased before all the people, just as you are not keeping My ways but are showing partiality in the instruction.

Thus the sin of the young men was very great before the Lord, for the men despised the offering of the Lord.

For those who guide this people are leading them astray;

And those who are guided by them are brought to confusion.

‘For My people have forgotten Me,

They burn incense to worthless gods

And they have stumbled from their ways,

From the ancient paths,

To walk in bypaths,
Not on a highway,

“For both prophet and priest are polluted;
Even in My house I have found their wickedness,” declares the Lord.

“Why do Your disciples break the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat bread.”

One of the

lawyers *said to Him in reply, “Teacher, when You say this, You insult us too.”

and are confident that you yourself are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,

It is good not to eat meat or to drink wine, or to do anything by which your brother stumbles.

Ye have corrupted

“My covenant with him was one of life and peace, and I gave them to him as an object of reverence; so he

revered Me and stood in awe of My name.

so that he will not profane his offspring among his people; for I am the Lord who sanctifies him.’”

Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood and the covenant of the priesthood and the Levites.

General references

The Levites shall then answer and say to all the men of Israel with a loud voice,

Moreover, they shall teach My people the difference between the holy and the profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.