Malachi 1:2
“I have loved you,” says the Lord. But you ask, “How have You loved us?” “Was not Esau Jacob’s brother?” declares the Lord. “Yet Jacob I have loved,
I have loved you, saith the Lord. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob’s brother? saith the Lord: yet I loved Jacob,
“I have loved you,” says the Lord. Yet you say, “How have you loved us?” “Wasn’t Esau Jacob’s brother?” says the Lord, “Yet I loved Jacob;
I have loved you, saith Jehovah. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob’s brother? saith Jehovah: yet I loved Jacob;
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- I have
- The prophet shows in these verses (ver. 2-5) how much Jacob and the Israelites were favoured by Jehovah, more than Esau and the Edomites. Through every period of the history of Jacob's posterity, they could not deny that God had remarkably appeared on their behalf; but he had rendered the heritage of Esau's descendants, by wars and various other means, barren and waste for ever.
- Deuteronomy 7:6–8; Deuteronomy 10:15; Deuteronomy 32:8–14; Isaiah 41:8, 9; Isaiah 43:4; Jeremiah 31:3; Romans 11:28, 29
- Wherein
- Malachi 1:6, 7; Malachi 2:17; Malachi 3:7, 8, 13, 14; Jeremiah 2:5, 31; Luke 10:29
- yet I.
- Genesis 25:23; Genesis 27:27–30, 33; Genesis 28:3, 4, 13, 14; Genesis 32:28–30; Genesis 48:4; Romans 9:10–13