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Malachi 3:13 Cross-References
Explore 15 cross-references for Malachi 3:13 from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, connecting Malachi chapter 3 verse 13 to related passages throughout the Bible.
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“Your words have been stout against me, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, What have we spoken so much against thee?”
Malachi 3:13 (KJV)
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Commentary on Malachi 3:13
Your words have been stout against me, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, What have we spoken so much against thee? After promising blessing for obedience (vv. 10-12), God confronts Israel's cynical speech. Stout (חָזְקוּ, ḥazqu) means strong, harsh, or severe—from the verb חָזַק (ḥazaq) meaning to be strong or hard. Their words were harsh, defiant, even arrogant against God.Once again the people respond with feigned innocence: What have we spoken so much against thee? (מַה־נִּדְבַּרְנוּ עָלֶיךָ, mah-nidbarnu aleykha). The verb דָּבַר (davar) means to speak; the construction suggests ongoing conversa...
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Cross-References for Malachi 3:13
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“'How have we wearied him?' In that you say”
“O man”
“Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice”
“setting himself up as God.”
“'Why?' Because Yahweh has been witness between you and the wife of your youth”
“who drinks scorn like water”
“Who is Yahweh, that I should listen to his voice to let Israel go? I don't know Yahweh, and moreover I will not let Israel go.”
“they were not at all ashamed”
“that could deliver his people out of my hand”