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Judah has dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah has profaned the holiness of Yahweh which he loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god.
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Profaning a Holy Identity
Commentators agree that the "holiness of the Lord" refers to the people of Israel themselves, whom God had set apart as His special, consecrated nation. By marrying idolaters ("the daughter of a foreign god"), they were not just breaking a rule; they were treacherously abandoning their unique identity and showing deep ingratitude for the divine love that had chosen them.
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Malachi
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Treacherously has Judah dealt; an abomination is committed in Israel - The prophet, by the order of the words, emphasizes the “treachery” an…
19th Century
Anglican
For the same grouping of Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem, compare Zechariah 1:19.
The holiness of the Lord. — This re…
16th Century
Protestant
The Prophet now explains how the Jews departed from the covenant of their fathers, and he exaggerates their sin, saying that an abomination was com…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Judah has dealt treacherously. Not only every man against his brother, by being partial in the law; or against the women …
Corrupt practices are the fruit of corrupt principles; and he who is false to his God will not be true to his fellow human beings. In contempt of t…
