Discovery BoxMalachi 2:11 
Context2:11 Judah has become disloyal, and unspeakable sins have been committed in Israel and Jerusalem. 1 For Judah has profaned 2 the holy things that the Lord loves and has turned to a foreign god! 3
Malachi 2:14
Context2:14 Yet you ask, “Why?” The Lord is testifying against you on behalf of the wife you married when you were young, 4 to whom you have become unfaithful even though she is your companion and wife by law. 5
1 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
2 tn Or perhaps “secularized”; cf. NIV “desecrated”; TEV, NLT “defiled”; CEV “disgraced.”
3 tn Heb “has married the daughter of a foreign god.” Marriage is used here as a metaphor to describe Judah’s idolatry, that is, her unfaithfulness to the
4 tn Heb “the
5 sn Though there is no explicit reference to marriage vows in the OT (but see Job 7:13; Prov 2:17; Ezek 16:8), the term law (Heb “covenant”) here asserts that such vows or agreements must have existed. References to divorce documents (e.g., Deut 24:1-3; Jer 3:8) also presuppose the existence of marriage documents.
