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God’s View of Marriage
Dishonoring the covenant VERSE 10
The connection
Father of all of Israel
Creator of all of Israel
The covenant (Overall but specifically the marriage covenant)
Treacherously
be unfaithful, be faithless, break faith, i.e., not trustworthy or reliable to a person or standard (1Sa 14:33); 2. LN 88.271–88.282
(qal) commit adultery, be unfaithful, i.e., have sex with partner that is not one’s married spouse (Jer 3:9), note: this refers to a spiritual unfaithfulness to other gods; 3. LN 37.111–37.113
(qal) betray, act.
treacherously, i.e., to be faithless to a principle, person or group, often with a result of handing someone into control of another, with justification (Isa 21:2)
Profaning
defile, profane, treat with contempt, i.e., ceremonially or ritually be common and impure in the eyes of deity and/or society, seen as a violation of covenant (Lev 19:8), see also LN 88.256–88.261;
(nif) defiled, profaned, desecrated (Lev 21:4, 9; Isa 48:11; Eze 7:24; 20:9, 14, 22; 22:16, 26; 25:3+)
The injured party (brothers in KJV, one another in NKJV)
Particularly the Jewish wives divorced by their husbands so the husbands could marry foeign wives
An abomination has been committed in Israel VERSE 11
An abomination by a holy people (Judah) in a holy land (Israel) in a holy city (Jerusalem)
Abomination
detestable thing, abomination, repulsion, i.e., an object which is loathsome and abhorrent (Dt 7:26), note: the object may be a concrete “thing” or a “way” or “practice,” as lifestyle behavior;
The profaning of the Lord’s holy Temple
Profane see above
Holy = sanctuary, holy object, holiness, sacredness
God loves His place designated for worship
The abomination was the unholy union in marriage
At the expense of their Jewish wives whom they divorced
In direct disobedience to the Lord’s command
Israel was to be a separate people
God’s command forbidding Israel to marry foreign women was connected with idolatry
Exodus 34:11-
Deuteronomy 7:
Joshua 23:
Deuteronomy
2 Corinthians 6
Dealing with the offender VERSE 12
Calling for the Lord to take action
The offender identified
awake
aware
hypocrisy
God’s View of Divorce
Unacceptable offerings VERSE 13
False worship when one has unconfessed sin
Rejected worship
The reason is for the unacceptable divorcing of their wife VERSE 14
The LORD witnesses our marriage vows
God protects the wife from a treacherously dealing husband
The wife of his youth
His companion
Wife by covenant
Marriage is not a contract
Marriage is not a contract
Malachi: Messenger of rebuke and Renewal David Levy
Page 55 Jewish Marriage
Marriage is created by God VERSE 15 (see Feinberg Notes)
God made the man and woman one by His breath
God made them one so they might have godly children
Take heed and do not divorce your wife from your youth
God’s warning
God hates divorce
Divorce reveals one’s character
He repeats the warning
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