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万 军 之 耶 和 华 说 ： 从 你 们 列 祖 的 日 子 以 来 ， 你 们 常 常 偏 离 我 的 典 章 而 不 遵 守 。 现 在 你 们 要 转 向 我 ， 我 就 转 向 你 们 。 你 们 却 问 说 ： 我 们 如 何 才 是 转 向 呢 ？
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
from the: Deuteronomy 9:7-21, Deuteronomy 31:20, Deuteronomy 31:27-29, Nehemiah 9:16, Nehemiah 9:17, Nehemiah 9:26, Nehemiah 9:28-30, Psalms 78:8-10, Ezekiel 20:8, Ezekiel 20:13, Ezekiel 20:21, Ezekiel 20:28, Luke 11:48-51, Acts 7:51, Acts 7:52
Return unto me: Leviticus 26:40-42, Deuteronomy 4:29-31, Deuteronomy 30:1-4, 1 Kings 8:47-49, Nehemiah 1:8, Nehemiah 1:9, Isaiah 55:6, Isaiah 55:7, Jeremiah 3:12-14, Jeremiah 3:22, Ezekiel 18:30-32, Hosea 14:1, Zechariah 1:3, James 4:8
Wherein: Malachi 3:13, Malachi 1:6, Isaiah 65:2, Matthew 23:27, Luke 15:16, Romans 7:9, Romans 10:3, Romans 10:21
Reciprocal: Psalms 6:4 - Return Psalms 80:14 - Return Isaiah 43:27 - first father Ezekiel 18:17 - he shall not Ezekiel 24:19 - General Daniel 9:5 - departing Malachi 1:2 - Wherein
Cross-References
The man and his wife were naked, but they were not ashamed.
God knows that if you eat the fruit from that tree, you will learn about good and evil and you will be like God!"
The man answered, "I heard you walking in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid."
God asked, "Who told you that you were naked? Did you eat fruit from the tree from which I commanded you not to eat?"
The things you see will cause you to go mad.
After they entered Samaria, Elisha said, " Lord , open these men's eyes so they can see." So the Lord opened their eyes, and the Aramean army saw that they were inside the city of Samaria!
You will be like the person who tried to sleep on a bed that was too short and with a blanket that was too narrow to wrap around himself.
The webs they make cannot be used for clothes; you can't cover yourself with those webs. The things they do are evil, and they use their hands to hurt others.
In the place of the dead, he was in much pain. The rich man saw Abraham far away with Lazarus at his side.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances,.... Here begins an enumeration of the sins of the Jews, which were the cause of their ruin; and here is first a general charge of apostasy from the statutes and ordinances of the law, which they made void by the traditions of the fathers; and therefore this word is used as referring to this evil, as well as to express their early, long, and continued departure from the ways of God; which as it was an aggravation of their sin, that they should have so long ago forsook the ordinances of God,
and have not kept [them], but transgressed them by observing the traditions of men, Matthew 15:3 so it is an instance of the patience and forbearance of God, that they were not as yet consumed; and of his grace and goodness, that he should address them as follows:
Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the Lord of hosts; this message was carried to them by John the Baptist, the forerunner of Christ, and by Christ himself, who both preached the doctrine of repentance to this people, Matthew 3:2. The Targum is,
"return to my worship, and I will look in my word to do well unto you, saith the Lord of hosts;''
and such who returned, and believed in Christ, and submitted to his ordinances, it was well with them.
But ye said, Wherein shall we return? what have we to turn from, or repent of? what evils have we done, or can be charged on us? what need have we of repentance or conversion, or of such an exhortation to it? do not we keep the law, and all the rituals of it? this is the true language of the Pharisees in Christ's time, who, touching the righteousness of the law, were blameless in their own esteem, and were the ninety and nine just persons that needed not repentance,
Luke 15:7.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Even from the days of your fathers - Back to those days and from them ye are gone away from My ordinances. “I am not changed from good; ye are not changed from evil. I am unchangeable in holiness; ye are unchangeable in perversity.”
Return unto Me - The beginning of our return is from the preventing grace of God. Jeremiah 31:18; Lamentations 5:21, “turn Thou me, and I shall be turned, for Thou art the Lord my God,” is the voice of the soul to God, preparing for His grace; Psalms 85:4, “turn us, O God of our salvation.” For, not in its own strength, but by His grace can the soul turn to God. “Turn thou to Me and I will return unto you,” is the Voice of God, acknowledging our free-will, and promising His favor, if we accept His grace in return.
And ye say, Wherein shall we return? - Strange ignorance of the blinded soul, unconscious that God has aught against it! It is the Pharisaic spirit in the Gospel. It would own itself doubtless in general terms a sinner, but when called on, wholly to turn to God, as being wholly turned from Him, it asks, “In what? What would God have of me?” as if ready to do it.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Malachi 3:7. Gone away from mine ordinances — Never acting according to their spirit and design.
Return unto me — There is still space to repent.
Wherein shall we return? — Their consciences were seared, and they knew not that they were sinners.
