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

I have kept the ways of Jehovah and I have not wickedly turned away from my God.

I have not turned aside from your ordinances just as you have instructed me.

Get out of our way! Stop blocking our path! Get the Holy One of Israel out of our sight.'

We rebelled and denied Jehovah. We turned away from our God. We spoke about oppression and revolt. We conceived and uttered lies in our hearts.

This is what Jehovah says: Cursed is the person who trusts humans, who makes flesh and blood his strength and whose heart turns away from Jehovah.

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

We have sinned. We have dealt perversely. We have acted wickedly and have rebelled, even turning aside from your precepts and from your ordinances.

Be careful, brothers and sisters, that none of you develop a wicked heart lacking faith and turning away (departing) from the living God.

Ye have caused

I caused you to be despised and low before all the people. You are contemptible and do not keep my ways. You show partiality when applying the law.

The sin of the young men was very great before Jehovah. For men despised the offering of Jehovah.

Those who led this people led them astray. And those who were led by them were left in confusion.

My people have forgotten me. They burn incense to worthless gods and they have stumbled from their ways. They stray from the ancient paths to walk in pathways and not on a highway.

The prophets and priests are godless. Even in my Temple I have found them doing evil, declares Jehovah.

They questioned him: Why do your disciples go against the teaching of the fathers? They eat food with unwashed hands.

One of the lawyers said to him: Teacher, you also insult us by saying this.

And you have confidence that you are a leader of the blind, a light to those in darkness.

It is good neither to eat food, nor to drink wine, nor any thing that causes your brother to stumble or be offended and weakened.

Ye have corrupted

My covenant was with him [Levi]. It was of life and peace. I gave them to him that he might reverence me. He respected me and stood in awe of my name.

He must not dishonor his children among his people because I, Jehovah, set him apart as holy.

Keep them in mind, O my God, because they have put shame on the priests' name and on the agreement of the priests and the Levites.

General references

The Levites will answer all the men of Israel with a loud voice:

They must teach my people the difference between what is holy and what is unholy. They must show the people how to tell the difference between what is clean and what is unclean.