Malachi 2:12

"Judah has dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah has profaned the holiness of the LORD which he loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god."

Key Reflection

This verse highlights the spiritual betrayal of the people of Judah, who have abandoned their covenant with God by engaging in idolatry and other sins, thus profaning the sacred relationship they had. By marrying foreign women, symbolically akin to worshiping foreign gods, they have defiled the holiness that should have been theirs as a chosen people.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

The Lord will cut off the man that doeth this, the master and the scholar -, literally “The Lord cut off from the man that doeth this, watcher and answerer.” A proverbial saying apparently, in which the two corresponding classes comprise the whole. Yet so, probably, that the one is the active agent; the other, the passive. The one as a “watcher” goes his rounds, to see that nothing stirreth against that which he is to guard; the other “answereth,” when roused. Together, they express the two opposite classes, active and passive sin; those who originate the sin, and those who adopt or retain it at the instigation of the inventor or active propagator of it.

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