Malachi 2:10

"“Therefore I have also made you contemptible and wicked before all the people, according to the way you have not kept my ways, but have had respect for persons in the law."

Key Reflection

This verse highlights God's disappointment with Israel for showing favoritism in their religious practices rather than treating all people equally according to His commandments. Such partiality made them appear contemptible and wicked in the eyes of others, emphasizing the importance of righteousness and impartiality in divine worship.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Have we not all one Father? -o Hath not one God created us? -Malachi turns abruptly to another offence, in which also the priests set an evil example, the capricious dismissal of their Hebrew wives and taking other women in their stead. Here, as before, he lays down, at the outset, a general moral principle, which he applies. “The one Father” (it appears from the parallel), is manifestly Almighty God, as the Jews said to our LordJohn 8:41, “We have one Father, even God.” He created them, not only as He did all mankind, but by the spiritual relationship with Himself, into which He brought them.

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