Malachi 1:2-3

²I have loved you, said Jehovah, And ye have said, 'In what hast Thou loved us?'

³Is not Esau Jacob's brother? — an affirmation of Jehovah, And I love Jacob, and Esau I have hated, And I make his mountains a desolation, And his inheritance for dragons of a wilderness.

Malachi 1 opens with a startling declaration of God's love for Israel, immediately challenged by the people's cynical question: "How have you loved us?" The chapter unfolds as a courtroom drama, with God as both prosecutor and plaintiff. Through the prophet Malachi, God exposes the

References· Malachi 1

a: v.6 — Luke 6:46, Isaiah 1:2, John 13:13-17, Exodus 20:12, 1 Peter 2:17-19, 1 Peter 1:17, Hosea 12:8, Malachi 3:13-14, Isaiah 64:8, Proverbs 30:17
b: v.8 — Deuteronomy 15:21, Leviticus 22:19-25, Hosea 8:13, Jeremiah 14:10, Psalms 20:3, Malachi 1:13-14, Job 42:8, Malachi 1:10

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