Malachi 2:15

"Yet you say, ‘Why?’ Because the LORD has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion and the wife of your covenant."

Key Reflection

The people of Malachi's time were grappling with the consequences of their actions, particularly in matters of marriage fidelity. In this context, they questioned why God was punishing them for breaking covenantal vows made to their wives. The original audience would have understood that these marriages were seen as sacred covenants, and betraying one’s spouse was a severe breach of trust. God had witnessed their treachery, highlighting the seriousness with which He regarded marital fidelity in ancient Israelite society.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

And did not He -, God, of whom he had spoken as the witness between man and his wife, “make one,” namely, Adam first, to mark the oneness of marriage and make it a law of nature, appointing “that out of man (created in His own image and similitude), woman should take her beginning, and, knitting them together, did teach that it should never be lawful to put asunder those, whom He by matrimony had made one?” “Between those two, and consequently between all other married, to be born from them, He willed that there should be one indivisible union, for Adam could be married to no other save Eve, s

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