Malachi 2:4

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And you will be certain that I have sent this order to you, so that it might be my agreement with Levi, says the Lord of armies.

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Referenced Verses

  • Num 3:12 : 12 See, I have taken the Levites out of the children of Israel to be mine in place of the first sons of the children of Israel;
  • Num 3:45 : 45 Take the Levites in place of all the first sons of the children of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites in place of their cattle; the Levites are to be mine; I am the Lord.
  • 1 Kgs 22:25 : 25 And Micaiah said, Truly, you will see on that day when you go into an inner room to keep yourself safe.
  • Neh 13:29 : 29 Keep them in mind, O my God, because they have put shame on the priests' name and on the agreement of the priests and the Levites.
  • Isa 1:24-28 : 24 For this reason the Lord, the Lord of armies, the Strong One of Israel, has said, I will put an end to my haters, and send punishment on those who are against me; 25 And my hand will again be on you, washing away what is unclean as with soap, and taking away all your false metal; 26 And I will give you judges again as at the first, and wise guides as in the past; then you will be named, The Town of Righteousness, the true town. 27 Upright acts will be the price of Zion's forgiveness, and by righteousness will men be living there. 28 But a common destruction will overtake sinners and evil-doers together, and those who have gone away from the Lord will be cut off.
  • Isa 26:11 : 11 Lord, your hand is lifted up, but they do not see: let them see ... yes, your haters will be burned up in the fire.
  • Isa 27:9 : 9 So by this will the sin of Jacob be covered, and this is all the fruit of taking away his punishment; when all the stones of the altar are crushed together, so that the wood pillars and the sun-images will not be put up again.
  • Jer 28:9 : 9 The prophet whose words are of peace, when his words come true, will be seen to be a prophet whom the Lord has sent.
  • Ezek 20:38-41 : 38 Clearing out from among you all those who are uncontrolled and who are sinning against me; I will take them out of the land where they are living, but they will not come into the land of Israel: and you will be certain that I am the Lord. 39 As for you, O children of Israel, the Lord has said: Let every man completely put away his images and give ear to me: and let my holy name no longer be shamed by your offerings and your images. 40 For in my holy mountain, in the high mountain of Israel, says the Lord, there all the children of Israel, all of them, will be my servants in the land; there I will take pleasure in them, and there I will be worshipped with your offerings and the first-fruits of the things you give, and with all your holy things. 41 I will take pleasure in you as in a sweet smell, when I take you out from the peoples and get you together from the countries where you have been sent in flight; and I will make myself holy in you before the eyes of the nations.
  • Ezek 33:33 : 33 And when this comes about (see, it is coming), then it will be clear to them that a prophet has been among them.
  • Ezek 38:23 : 23 And I will make my name great and make myself holy, and I will make myself clear to a number of nations; and they will be certain that I am the Lord.
  • Ezek 44:9-9 : 9 For this cause the Lord has said, No man from a strange land, without circumcision of heart and flesh, of all those who are living among the children of Israel, is to come into my holy place. 10 But as for the Levites, who went far from me, when Israel went out of the right way, turning away from me to go after their images; their punishment will come on them. 11 But they may be caretakers in my holy place, and overseers at the doors of the house, doing the work of the house: they will put to death the burned offering and the beasts offered for the people, and they will take their place before them as their servants. 12 Because they did this work for them before their images, and became a cause of sin to the children of Israel; for this cause my hand has been lifted up against them, says the Lord, and their punishment will be on them. 13 And they will not come near me to do the work of priests to me, or come near any of my holy things, or the things which are most holy: but their shame will be on them, and the punishment for the disgusting things which they have done. 14 But I will make them responsible for the care of the house and all its work and everything which is done in it. 15 But as for the priests, the sons of Zadok, who took care of my holy place when the children of Israel were turned away from me, they are to come near me to do my work, they will take their places before me, offering to me the fat and the blood, says the Lord; 16 They are to come into my holy place and they are to come near to my table, to do my work and have the care of my house.
  • Matt 3:12 : 12 In whose hand is the instrument with which he will make clean his grain; he will put the good grain in his store, but the waste will be burned up in the fire which will never be put out.
  • Luke 10:11 : 11 Even the dust of your town, which is on our feet, we put off as a witness against you; but be certain of this, that the kingdom of God is near.
  • John 15:2 : 2 He takes away every branch in me which has no fruit, and every branch which has fruit he makes clean, so that it may have more fruit.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Mal 2:5
    80%

    5 My agreement with him was on my side life and peace, and I gave them to him; on his side fear, and he had fear of me and gave honour to my name.

  • Mal 2:7-9
    3 verses
    77%

    7 For it is right for the priest's lips to keep knowledge, and for men to be waiting for the law from his mouth: for he is the servant sent from the Lord of armies.

    8 But you are turned out of the way; you have made the law hard for numbers of people; you have made the agreement of Levi of no value, says the Lord of armies.

    9 And so I have taken away your honour and made you low before all the people, even as you have not kept my ways, and have given no thought to me in using the law.

  • Mal 2:1-3
    3 verses
    75%

    1 And now, O you priests, this order is for you.

    2 If you will not give ear and take it to heart, to give glory to my name, says the Lord of armies, then I will send the curse on you and will put a curse on your blessing: truly, even now I have put a curse on it, because you do not take it to heart.

    3 See, I will have your arm cut off, and will put waste on your faces, even the waste from your feasts; and you will be taken away with it.

  • Deut 10:8-9
    2 verses
    73%

    8 At that time the Lord had the tribe of Levi marked out to take up the ark of the Lord's agreement, to be before the Lord and to do his work and to give blessings in his name, to this day.

    9 For this reason Levi has no part or heritage for himself among his brothers: the Lord is his heritage, as the Lord your God said to him.)

  • Ezek 16:62
    72%

    62 And I will make my agreement with you; and you will be certain that I am the Lord:

  • Num 18:5-6
    2 verses
    71%

    5 You are to be responsible for the holy place and the altar, so that wrath may never again come on the children of Israel.

    6 Now, see, I have taken your brothers the Levites from among the children of Israel: they are given to you and to the Lord, to do the work of the Tent of meeting.

  • Zech 2:9
    71%

    9 For I, says the Lord, will be a wall of fire round about her, and I will be the glory inside her.

  • Ps 135:20
    71%

    20 Give praise to the Lord, O sons of Levi: let all the worshippers of the Lord give him praise.

  • Lev 22:31
    71%

    31 So then, keep my orders and do them: I am the Lord.

  • Jer 33:21
    71%

    21 Then my agreement with my servant David may be broken, so that he no longer has a son to take his place on the seat of the kingdom; and my agreement with the Levites, the priests, my servants.

  • Num 25:12
    70%

    12 So say to them that I will make with him an agreement of peace:

  • Num 18:2
    70%

    2 Let your brothers, the family of Levi, come near with you, so that they may be joined with you and be your servants: but you and your sons with you are to go in before the ark of witness.

  • Deut 31:25
    70%

    25 Moses said to the Levites who were responsible for taking up the ark of the Lord's agreement,

  • Jer 34:18
    70%

    18 And I will give the men who have gone against my agreement and have not given effect to the words of the agreement which they made before me, when the ox was cut in two and they went between the parts of it,

  • Num 8:14
    70%

    14 So you are to make the Levites separate from the children of Israel, and the Levites will be mine.

  • Num 16:10
    70%

    10 Letting you, and all your brothers the sons of Levi, come near to him? and would you now be priests?

  • Mal 1:14
    70%

    14 A curse on the false man who has a male in his flock, and takes his oath, and gives to the Lord a damaged thing: for I am a great King, says the Lord of armies, and my name is to be feared among the Gentiles.

  • Num 18:21
    70%

    21 And to the children of Levi I have given as their heritage all the tenths offered in Israel, as payment for the work they do, the work of the Tent of meeting.

  • Deut 33:8
    70%

    8 And of Levi he said, Give your Thummim to Levi and let the Urim be with your loved one, whom you put to the test at Massah, with whom you were angry at the waters of Meribah;

  • Hag 2:5
    70%

    5 The agreement which I made with you when you came out of Egypt, and my spirit, are with you still; have no fear.

  • Jer 11:6
    70%

    6 And the Lord said to me, Give out these words in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying, Give ear to the words of this agreement and do them.

  • Jer 11:2-4
    3 verses
    69%

    2 Give ear to the words of this agreement, and say to the men of Judah and to the people of Jerusalem,

    3 The Lord, the God of Israel, has said, Let that man be cursed who does not give ear to the words of this agreement,

    4 To the order which I gave your fathers on the day when I took them out of the land of Egypt, out of the oven of iron, saying, Give ear to my voice, and do all the orders I have given you: so you will be my people, and I will be your God:

  • Mal 4:4
    69%

    4 Keep in mind the law of Moses, my servant, which I gave him in Horeb for all Israel, even the rules and the decisions.

  • Deut 29:12
    69%

    12 With the purpose of taking part in the agreement of the Lord your God, and his oath which he makes with you today:

  • Heb 7:5
    69%

    5 And it is true that by the law, those of the sons of Levi who have the position of priests may take a tenth part of the people's goods; that is to say, they take it from their brothers though these are the sons of Abraham.

  • Num 3:11
    69%

    11 And the Lord said to Moses,

  • Jer 27:4
    69%

    4 And give them orders to say to their masters, This is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: Say to your masters,

  • Judg 17:13
    69%

    13 Then Micah said, Now I am certain that the Lord will do me good, seeing that the Levite has become my priest.

  • 2 Kgs 17:35
    69%

    35 And the Lord made an agreement with them and gave them orders, saying, You are to have no other gods; you are not to give worship to them or be their servants or make them offerings:

  • 2 Chr 31:4
    69%

    4 In addition, he gave orders to the people of Jerusalem to give to the priests and Levites that part which was theirs by right, so that they might be strong in keeping the law of the Lord.

  • 2 Kgs 17:38
    69%

    38 And you are to keep in memory the agreement which I have made with you; and you are to have no other gods.

  • Exod 34:27
    69%

    27 And the Lord said to Moses, Put all these words in writing; for on them is based the agreement which I will make with you.

  • Hos 2:20
    69%

    20 I will take you as my bride in good faith, and you will have knowledge of the Lord.

  • Num 8:22
    69%

    22 And then the Levites went in to do their work in the Tent of meeting before Aaron and his sons: all the orders which the Lord had given Moses about the Levites were put into effect.

  • Deut 4:14
    69%

    14 And the Lord gave me orders at that time to make clear to you these laws and decisions, so that you might do them in the land to which you are going, and which is to be your heritage.

  • Jer 26:4
    69%

    4 And you are to say to them, This is what the Lord has said: If you do not give ear to me and go in the way of my law which I have put before you,

  • Isa 59:21
    68%

    21 And as for me, this is my agreement with them, says the Lord: my spirit which is on you, and my words which I have put in your mouth, will not go away from your mouth, or from the mouth of your seed, or from the mouth of your seed's seed, says the Lord, from now and for ever.

  • Jer 17:4
    68%

    4 And your hand will have to let go your heritage which I gave you; and I will make you a servant to your haters in a land which is strange to you: for you have put my wrath on fire with a flame which will go on burning for ever.

  • Num 3:6
    68%

    6 Make the tribe of Levi come near, and put them before Aaron the priest, to be his helpers,

  • Mal 3:7
    68%

    7 From the days of your fathers you have been turned away from my rules and have not kept them. Come back to me, and I will come back to you, says the Lord of armies. But you say, How are we to come back?

  • Neh 13:29
    68%

    29 Keep them in mind, O my God, because they have put shame on the priests' name and on the agreement of the priests and the Levites.

  • Jer 31:31
    68%

    31 See, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new agreement with the people of Israel and with the people of Judah: