Malachi 1:2

Julia E. Smith Translation 1876

I loved you, said Jehovah. And ye said, In what didst thou love us? Was not Esau brother to Jacob? says Jehovah: and loving Jacob.

Cross References

Genesis 25:23

And Jehovah will say to her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two peoples shall be separated from thy belly: and a people shall be strong above a people, and the great shall serve the small.

Genesis 25:25

And the first shall come forth red, wholly as a mantle of hair: and they will call his name Esau.

Genesis 25:26

And after this, his brother will come forth, and his hand having laid hold upon Esau's heel; and his name was called Jacob: and Isaak the son of sixty years in her bringing them forth.

Genesis 27:33

And Isaak will tremble a great trembling, even exceedingly; and he will say, Who now is he having hunted a hunting, and will bring to me, and I ate from all before thou wilt come, and I shall praise him? also he shall be praised.

Genesis 48:4

And he will say to me, Behold, I making thee fruitful, and I multiplied thee, and I gave thee for an assembly of people; and I gave this land to thy seed after thee a possession forever.

1 Kings 10:9

Jehovah thy God will be blessed, who delighted in thee to give thee upon the throne of Israel: in Jehovah's loving Israel forever, and he will set thee up for king to do judgment and justice.

2 Kings 3:8

And he will say, Where the way we shall go up? And he will say, The way of the desert of Edom.

Isaiah 43:4

From that thou wert precious in mine eyes, thou wert honored, and I loved thee: and I will give man instead of thee, and peoples instead of thy soul.

Isaiah 63:1

Who this coming from Edom, splendid with garments from Bozra? this adorned in his attire, bowing himself in his strength? I, speaking in justice, great for salvation.

Jeremiah 2:31

O generation, see ye the word of Jehovah. Was I the desert to Israel? If a land of thick darkness? wherefore said my people, We had dominion, we will come no more to thee?

Jeremiah 2:5

Thus said Jehovah, What iniquity found your fathers in me that they removed far off from me, and went after vanity, and they became vain?

Jeremiah 31:3

Jehovah was seen to me from afar off; and I loved thee an eternal love: for this I drew thee in kindness.

Amos 1:11

Thus said Jehovah: For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not turn it back: for his pursuing his brother with the sword, and he destroyed his compassions, and his anger will rend forever, and his wrath was observed perpetually.

Malachi 2:17

Ye wearied Jehovah with your words: and ye said, In what did we weary? In your saying, Every one doing evil is good in the eyes of Jehovah, and he delighted in them; or, Where the God of judgment?

Luke 10:29

And he, wishing to justify himself, said to Jesus, And who is my neighbor

John 15:12

This is my command, That ye love one another, as I loved you.

Deuteronomy 10:15

Only Jehovah delighted in thy fathers to love them, and he will choose in their seed after them in you above all peoples, as this day.

Deuteronomy 23:5

And Jehovah thy God willed not to hear to Balaam: and Jehovah thy God will turn to thee the curse to a blessing, for Jehovah thy God loved thee.

Deuteronomy 33:3

Surely, he loved the peoples; all his holy ones in thy hand: they lay down at thy foot; and he will take of thy words.

Deuteronomy 4:37

And because that he loved thy fathers he will choose in his seed after him, and he will bring thee out before him with his great strength from Egypt