Malachi 4:6

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse. {THE END OF THE PROPHETS.}

Lest

And smite

General references

Matthew 11:13

Acts 2:19

Bible References

Lest

to proclaim the year of Jehovah's favor, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;

And after the threescore and two weeks shall the anointed one be cut off, and shall have nothing: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and even unto the end shall be war; desolations are determined.

For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land, saith Jehovah; but, lo, I will deliver the men every one into his neighbor's hand, and into the hand of his king; and they shall smite the land, and out of their hand I will not deliver them.

And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith Jehovah, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein.

For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.

But the king was wroth; and he sent his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned their city.

that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of Abel the righteous unto the blood of Zachariah son of Barachiah, whom ye slew between the sanctuary and the altar.

For as the lightning cometh forth from the east, and is seen even unto the west; so shall be the coming of the Son of man.

But when ye see the abomination of desolation standing where he ought not (let him that readeth understand), then let them that are in Judaea flee unto the mountains:

And when he drew nigh, he saw the city and wept over it,

For these are days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled.

And smite

and it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart, to destroy the moist with the dry.

Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are found guilty: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.

Therefore I will profane the princes of the sanctuary; and I will make Jacob a curse, and Israel a reviling.

And ye shall leave your name for a curse unto my chosen; and the Lord Jehovah will slay thee; and he will call his servants by another name:

Yea, all Israel have transgressed thy law, even turning aside, that they should not obey thy voice: therefore hath the curse been poured out upon us, and the oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God; for we have sinned against him.

Then said he unto me, This is the curse that goeth forth over the face of the whole land: for every one that stealeth shall be cut off on the one side according to it; and every one that sweareth shall be cut off on the other side according to it.

And this shall be the plague wherewith Jehovah will smite all the peoples that have warred against Jerusalem: their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their sockets, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.

And Peter calling to remembrance saith unto him, Rabbi, behold, the fig tree which thou cursedst is withered away.

but if it beareth thorns and thistles, it is rejected and nigh unto a curse; whose end is to be burned.

For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more a sacrifice for sins,

And there shall be no curse any more: and the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be therein: and his servants shall serve him;

General references

For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John.

And I will show wonders in the heaven above, And signs on the earth beneath; Blood, and fire, and vapor of smoke: