Malachi 2:7

Tree of Life Version

For a kohen’s lips should guard knowledge, and instruction must be sought from his mouth. For he is a messenger of Adonai-Tzva’ot.

Cross References

2 Kings 16:11

Then Urijah the kohen built an altar according to all that King Ahaz had sent from Damascus, and Urijah the kohen finished it by the time King Ahaz returned from Damascus.

2 Kings 16:16

Thus Urijah the kohen did everything just as King Ahaz commanded.

2 Chronicles 30:22

Then Hezekiah spoke encouragingly to all the Levites who demonstrated good understanding of the service of Adonai. For seven days they ate their assigned portions while sacrificing peace offerings and praising Adonai, the God of their fathers.

2 Chronicles 31:4

Moreover, he commanded the people, the residents of Jerusalem, to give the portion allotted to the kohanim and the Levites, so that they might devote themselves to the Torah of Adonai.

Ezra 7:10

For Ezra had set his heart to seek the Torah of Adonai, to observe and to teach its statues and ordinances in Israel.

Ezra 7:25

“Now you, Ezra, according to the wisdom of your God that is in your hand, appoint judges and magistrates who may administer justice to all the people in Trans-Euphrates—all who know the laws of your God. And you are to teach those who do not know them.

Proverbs 5:2

that you may maintain discretion and your lips may preserve knowledge.

Ecclesiastes 5:5

Don’t let your mouth lead your flesh to sin, and don’t say before the messenger, “It was a mistake!” Why should God be angry at your voice and destroy the work of your hands?

Isaiah 42:19

Who is blind, but My Servant? Or deaf as My Messenger that I send? Who is so blind as the one in covenant with Me, blind as Adonai’s Servant?

Isaiah 44:26

while confirming the word of His servant, fulfilling the counsel of His messengers, saying of Jerusalem, “She will be lived in” and of the cities of Judah, “They will be built, and I will raise up their ruins,”

Jeremiah 15:19

Therefore thus says Adonai: “If you return, I will restore you, you will stand before Me. If you extract the precious from the worthless, you will be as My mouth. Let them turn to you, but you must not turn to them.

Jeremiah 18:18

Then they said: “Come, let us devise plans against Jeremiah. Surely Torah from the kohen will not be lost, nor will counsel from the wise, nor will the word from the prophet. Come, let’s strike at him with the tongue, and pay no attention to any of his words.”

Jeremiah 2:8

The kohanim did not ask, ‘Where is Adonai?’ The Torah experts did not know Me. The shepherds rebelled against Me. The prophets prophesied by Baal and went after unprofitable things.

Ezekiel 22:26

Her kohanim have done violence to My Torah and have profaned My holy things; they have made no distinction between the holy and the profane, nor have they taught the difference between the unclean and the clean. They shut their eyes to My Shabbatot. So I am profaned among them.

Ezekiel 7:26

Disaster upon disaster will come, and rumor upon rumor. They will seek a vision from a prophet, but Torah will perish from the kohen and counsel from the elders.

Daniel 11:33

Those who are wise among the people will instruct many, though for many days they will fall by the sword, or be burned, captured or pillaged.

Hosea 4:6

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Since you rejected knowledge, I will also reject you from being My kohen. Since you forgot the Torah of your God, just so I will forget your children.

Leviticus 10:11

And you are to teach Bnei-Yisrael all the statutes which Adonai has spoken to them through Moses.”

Zephaniah 3:4

Her prophets are reckless, treacherous men. Her kohanim have profaned what is holy. They do violence to Torah.

Haggai 1:13

Then Haggai, the messenger of Adonai, spoke to the people with the message of Adonai, “I am with you!”—it is a declaration of Adonai.

Zechariah 7:3

and to speak to the kohanim of the House of Adonai-Tzva’ot and to the prophets saying, “Should I mourn and consecrate myself in the fifth month as I have done for so many years?”

Malachi 3:1

“Behold, I am sending My messenger, and he will clear the way before Me. Suddenly He will come to His Temple —the Lord whom you seek— and the Messenger of the covenant —the One whom you desire— behold, He is coming,” says Adonai-Tzva’ot.

Numbers 27:21

He will stand before Eleazar the kohen, who will pray and obtain judgments for him by Urim and before Adonai. At his mouth, they will go out and at his mouth they will come in, he and all the community of Bnei-Yisrael with him.”

John 13:20

Amen, amen I tell you, he who receives the one I send, receives Me; and he who receives Me, receives the One who sent Me.”

John 20:21

Yeshua said to them again, “Shalom aleichem! As the Father has sent Me, I also send you.”

Acts 16:17

Following after Paul and us, she kept shouting, saying, “These men are servants of El Elyon, who are proclaiming to you the way of salvation.”

2 Corinthians 5:20

We are therefore ambassadors for Messiah, as though God were making His appeal through us. We beg you on behalf of Messiah, be reconciled to God.

Galatians 4:14

and though my physical condition was a trial to you, you did not hate or reject me. No, you welcomed me as a messenger of God—or even as Messiah Yeshua.

Deuteronomy 21:5

The kohanim, the sons of Levi, will come forward—for Adonai your God has chosen them to serve Him and pronounce blessings in His Name, and by their mouth every dispute and assault is to be settled.

Deuteronomy 24:8

“Take care in the plague of tza'arat—be very careful to do all that the Levitical kohanim instruct you, just as I commanded them, so you are to take care to do.

1 Thessalonians 4:8

Consequently, the one who rejects this is not rejecting man, but God, who gives His Ruach ha-Kodesh to you.

1 Samuel 2:17

Thus the sin of the young men was very great before Adonai, for the men despised the offering of Adonai.