The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

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Zechariah 14:18 (NIV)

18 If the Egyptian people do not go up and take part, they will have no rain. The Lord will bring on them the plague he inflicts
on the nations that do not go up to celebrate the Festival of Tabernacles.

 

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Zechariah 14:19 (NIV)

19 This will be the punishment of Egypt and the punishment of all the nations that do not go up to celebrate the Festival
of Tabernacles.

 

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Zechariah 14:20 (NIV)

20 On that day holy to the Lord will be inscribed on the bells of the horses, and the cooking pots in the Lord’s house will be
like the sacred bowls in front of the altar.

 

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Zechariah 14:21 (NIV)

21 Every pot in Jerusalem and Judah will be holy to the Lord Almighty, and all who come to sacrifice will take some of the pots
and cook in them. And on that day there will no longer be a Canaanite in the house of the Lord Almighty.

 

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Malachi 1 (CSB)

A pronouncement:

The word of the Lord to Israel through Malachi. [a]

[a] Malachi = My Messenger

 

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Malachi 1:2 (CSB)

“I have loved you,” says the Lord.

Yet you ask, “How have you loved us?”

“Wasn’t Esau Jacob’s brother?” This is the Lord’s declaration. “Even so, I loved Jacob,

 

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Malachi 1:3 (CSB)

3 but I hated Esau. I turned his mountains into a wasteland, and gave his inheritance to the desert jackals.”

 

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Malachi 1:4 (CSB)

4 Though Edom says, “We have been devastated, but we will rebuild the ruins,” the Lord of Armies says this: “
They may build, but I will demolish. They will be called a wicked country and the people the Lord has cursed forever.

 

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Malachi 1:5 (CSB)

5 Your own eyes will see this, and you yourselves will say, ‘The Lord is great, even beyond the borders of Israel.’

 

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Malachi 1:6 (CSB)

6 “A son honors his father, and a servant his master. But if I am a father, where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is your
fear of me? says the Lord of Armies to you priests, who despise my name.”

Yet you ask, “How have we despised your name?”

 

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Malachi 1:7 (CSB)

7 “By presenting defiled food on my altar.”

“How have we defiled you?” you ask.

When you say, “The Lord’s table is contemptible.”

 

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Malachi 1:8 (CSB)

8 “When you present a blind animal for sacrifice, is it not wrong? And when you present a lame or sick animal, is it not wrong?
Bring it to your governor! Would he be pleased with you or show you favor?” asks the Lord of Armies.

 

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Malachi 1:9 (CSB)

9 “And now plead for God’s favor. Will he be gracious to us? Since this has come from your hands, will he show any of you favor?”
asks the Lord of Armies.

 

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Malachi 1:10 (CSB)

10 “I wish one of you would shut the temple doors, so that you would no longer kindle a useless fire on my altar! I am not pleased
with you,” says the Lord of Armies, “and I will accept no offering from your hands.

 

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Malachi 1:11 (CSB)

11 “My name will be great among the nations, from the rising of the sun to its setting. Incense and pure offerings will presented
in my name in every place because my name will be great among the nations,” says the Lord of Armies

 

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Malachi 1:12 (CSB)

12 “But you are profaning it when you say, ‘The Lord’s table is defiled, and its product, its food, is contemptible.’

 

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Malachi 1:13 (CSB)

13 You also say, ‘Look, what a nuisance!’ And you scorn it,” says the Lord of Armies. “You bring stolen, lame, or sick animals.
You bring this as an offering! Am I to accept that from your hands?” asks the Lord.

 

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Malachi 1:14 (CSB)

14 “The deceiver is cursed who has an acceptable male in his flock and makes a vow but sacrifices a defective animal to the Lord.
For I am a great King,” says the Lord of Armies, “and my name will be feared among the nations.

 

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Malachi 2:1 (Lex)

“And so then, O priests, this command is for you:

 

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Malachi 2:2 (Lex)

2 If you will not listen, and if you will not take it to heart to give glory to my name,” says Yahweh of hosts, “then I will send
the curse on you, and I will curse your blessings; moreover I have already cursed them because you are not taking it to heart.