Malachi 2:7
Context2:7 For the lips of a priest should preserve knowledge of sacred things, and people should seek instruction from him 1 because he is the messenger of the Lord who rules over all.
Malachi 2:11
Context2:11 Judah has become disloyal, and unspeakable sins have been committed in Israel and Jerusalem. 2 For Judah has profaned 3 the holy things that the Lord loves and has turned to a foreign god! 4
1 tn Heb “from his mouth” (so NAB, NASB, NRSV).
2 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
3 tn Or perhaps “secularized”; cf. NIV “desecrated”; TEV, NLT “defiled”; CEV “disgraced.”
4 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