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

Because I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not forsaken my God, as the wicked doth. {TYNDALE: For I kept the ways of the LORD, and did no wickedness, forsaking my God.}

I shrink not from thy judgments, for thou teachest me.

Tread out of the way, go out of the path, turn the holy one of Israel from us."

Namely transgress and dissemble against the LORD, and fall away from our God: using presumptuous and traitorous imaginations, and casting false matters in our hearts.

Thus sayeth the LORD, "Cursed be the man that putteth his trust in man, and that taketh flesh for his arm: and he, whose heart departeth from the LORD.

No nor the Levites that are gone back from me, and have deceived the people of Israel with errors, going after their idols: therefore shall they bear their own wickedness.

We have sinned, we have offended, we have been disobedient and gone back: yea, we have departed from all thy precepts and judgments.

Take heed, brethren, that there be in none of you an evil heart, in unbelief, that he should depart from the living God:

Ye have caused

Therefore will I also make you to be despised, and to be of no reputation among all the people: because ye have not kept my ways, but been partial in the law.

And the sin of the young men was very great before the LORD. For they despised the people, and also the offering of the LORD.

For all they which inform the people that they be in a right cause, such be deceivers. Such as men think also to be perfect among these, are but cast aways.

But my people hath so forgotten me, that they have made sacrifice unto vain gods. And while they followed their own ways they are come out of the high street, and gone into a foot way not used to be trodden.

"For the prophets and the priests themselves are polluted hypocrites, and their wickedness have I found in my house, sayeth the LORD.

"Why do thy disciples transgress the traditions of the elders? For they wash not their hands, when they eat bread."

Then answered one of the lawyers, and said unto him, "Master, thus saying, thou puttest us to rebuke also."

And believest that thou thyself art a guide unto the blind, a light to them which are in darkness,

It is good neither to eat flesh, neither to drink wine, neither anything, whereby thy brother stumbleth, either falleth, or is made weak.

Ye have corrupted

I made a covenant of life and peace with him: this I gave him, that he might stand in awe of me: and so he did fear me, and had my name in reverence.

that he defile not his seed upon his people. For I am the LORD which sanctify him.'"

O my God, think thou upon them that are quit of the priesthood, and have defiled the covenant of the priesthood and of the Levites!

General references

And the Levites shall begin, and say unto all the men of Israel with a loud voice,

They shall show my people the difference between the holy and unholy, betwixt the clean and unclean.