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

That I might declare the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of the vengeance of our God; that I might comfort all them that are in heaviness.

After these sixty two weeks, shall Christ be slain, and they shall have no pleasure in him. Then shall there come a people with the prince, and destroy the city and the Sanctuary: and his end shall come as the water flood. But the desolation shall continue till the end of the battle.

Therefore will I no more spare those that dwell in the land, sayeth the LORD. But lo, I will deliver the people, every man, into his neighbour's hand and into the hand of his king: that they may smite the land. And out of their hands will I not deliver them."

And it shall come to pass, sayeth the LORD, that in all the land two parts shall be rooted out, but the third part shall remain therein.

For I will gather together all the Heathen, to fight against Jerusalem: so that the city shall be won, the houses spoiled, and the women defiled. The half of the city shall go away into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be carried out of the city.

When the King heard that, he was wroth, and sent forth his warriors and destroyed those murderers, and burnt up their city.

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

For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth unto the west: so shall the coming of the son of man be.

Moreover, when ye see the abomination that betokeneth desolation, whereof is spoken by Daniel the prophet, stand where it ought not" - let him that readeth understand it - "then let them that be in Jewry, flee to the mountains.

And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept on it,

For these be the days of vengeance, to fulfill all that are written.

And smite

so that when he heareth the words of this curse, he bless himself in his heart saying, 'I shall have peace; I will therefore work after the lust of mine own heart, that the drunken may perish with the thirsty.'

Therefore hath the curse consumed the earth; and they that dwell therein are fallen into trespass. Wherefore the inhabiters of the earth are perished with drought, and those that remain shall be very few.

Therefore I either suspended, or slew the chiefest princes: I did curse Jacob, and gave Israel into reproof."

Your name shall not be sworn by among my chosen, for God the LORD shall slay you, and call his servants by another name.

Yea, all Israel have transgressed, and gone back from thy law, so that they have not hearkened unto thy voice. Wherefore the curse and oath, that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God, against whom we have offended, is poured upon us.

Then said he unto me, 'This is the curse, that goeth forth over the whole earth: for all thieves shall be judged after this book, and all swearers shall be judged according to the same.

This shall be the plague, wherewith the LORD will smite all people, that have fought against Jerusalem: Namely, their flesh shall consume away, though they stand upon their feet; their eyes shall be corrupt in their holes, and their tongue shall consume in their mouth.

And Peter remembered, and said unto him, "Master, behold, the fig tree which thou cursedst, is withered away."

but that ground, which beareth thorns and briars, is reproved, and is nigh unto cursing: whose end is to be burned.

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

And there shall be no more curse, but the seat of God and the lamb shall be in it: and his servants shall serve him.

General references

and they that go to it with violence pluck it unto them. For all the prophets and the law prophesied unto the time of John.

And I will show wonders in heaven above, and tokens in the earth beneath, blood and fire, and the vapour of smoke.