Malachi 2:8

Tree of Life Version

But you have turned from the way. You caused many to stumble in Torah by the instruction, You corrupted the covenant of the Levites,” —says 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.

Nehemiah 13:29

O my God, please remember them for the defilement of the priesthood as well as the covenant of the priesthood and the Levites.

Psalm 119:102

I do not turn away from Your rulings, for You Yourself have taught me.

Psalm 18:21

Adonai rewarded me for my righteousness. For the cleanness of my hands He repaid me.

Proverbs 12:8

A man is praised according to his insight, but one with a twisted mind is despised.

Isaiah 30:11

Get out of the way! Turn away from the path! Let’s hear no more about the Holy One of Israel.”

Isaiah 59:13

transgressing and denying Adonai, turning back from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering lying words from the heart.

Isaiah 9:16

Therefore Adonai will have no joy in their young men, nor will He have compassion on their orphans and widows, for everyone is ungodly and an evildoer, and every mouth speaks foolishness. For all this His anger is not turned away, yet His hand is still outstretched.

Jeremiah 17:13

Adonai, You are the hope of Israel! All who forsake You will be ashamed. Those who depart from You will be written in the dirt, for they have forsaken Adonai, the fountain of living waters.

Jeremiah 17:5

Thus says Adonai: “Cursed is the one who trusts in man, and depends on flesh as his arm, and whose heart turns from Adonai.

Jeremiah 18:15

Yet My people have forgotten Me. They burn incense to a delusion and stumble in their ways— off the ancient paths— to walk on side-tracks, rather than a built-up highway.

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 44:10

For the Levites who went far from Me, when Israel went astray after their idols, will bear their iniquity.

Ezekiel 44:12

Because they ministered to them before their idols, and became a stumbling block of iniquity to the house of Israel, therefore I have lifted up My hand against them”—it is a declaration of Adonai. “They will bear their iniquity.

Ezekiel 44:7

You brought in foreigners, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in My Sanctuary, to profane it—My House—when you offer My bread, the fat and the blood. They have broken My covenant, to add to all your abominations.

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 21:15

so as not to corrupt his offspring among his people. For I am Adonai who sanctifies him.”

Zephaniah 3:4

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

Malachi 1:6

“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. So if I am Father, where is My honor? If I am Master, where is My reverence?”—says Adonai-Tzva’ot—“you, kohanim who despise My Name!” But you say, “How did we despise Your Name?”

Malachi 2:5

“My covenant was with him for life and shalom, and I gave them to him for reverence. So he revered Me, and he was awestruck by My Name.

Numbers 25:12

So now say: See, I am making with him a covenant of shalom!

Numbers 25:13

It will be for him and his descendants after him a covenant of an everlasting priesthood—because he was zealous for his God and atoned for Bnei-Yisrael.”

Romans 14:21

It is good not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything by which your brother stumbles.

Hebrews 3:12

Take care, brothers and sisters, that none of you has an evil heart of unbelief that falls away from the living God.

1 Samuel 2:17

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

1 Samuel 2:24

No, my sons! For this is not a good report that I hear Adonai’s people spreading around.

1 Samuel 2:30

Therefore Adonai God of Israel declares, I indeed said that your house and your father’s house should walk before Me forever. But now declares Adonai, far be it from Me! For I will honor those who honor Me, but those who despise Me will be disdained.