Malachi 4:5

KJV1611 – Modern English

Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD.

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  • Luke 1:17 : 17 He will go before Him in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.
  • Rev 6:17 : 17 For the great day of his wrath has come; and who shall be able to stand?
  • Joel 2:31 : 31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of the LORD comes.
  • Mal 3:1 : 1 Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom you seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom you delight in: behold, he shall come, says the LORD of hosts.
  • Matt 17:10-13 : 10 And his disciples asked him, saying, Why then do the scribes say that Elijah must first come? 11 And Jesus answered and said to them, Elijah truly shall first come, and restore all things. 12 But I say to you, That Elijah has already come, and they did not know him, but have done to him whatever they wished. Likewise shall also the Son of Man suffer by them. 13 Then the disciples understood that he spoke to them of John the Baptist.
  • Mark 9:11-13 : 11 And they asked him, saying, Why do the scribes say that Elijah must first come? 12 And he answered and told them, Elijah truly comes first and restores all things; and how it is written of the Son of Man, that he must suffer many things and be treated with contempt. 13 But I say to you, that Elijah has indeed come, and they did to him whatever they wished, as it is written of him.
  • Isa 40:3 : 3 The voice of one crying in the wilderness: Prepare the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
  • Mal 4:1 : 1 For behold, the day comes that shall burn like an oven, and all the proud, yes, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble; and the day that comes shall burn them up, says the LORD of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.
  • John 1:21 : 21 And they asked him, What then? Are you Elijah? And he said, I am not. Are you the Prophet? And he answered, No.
  • John 1:25 : 25 And they asked him, and said to him, Why then do you baptize if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?
  • Acts 2:19-20 : 19 I will show wonders in heaven above and signs on the earth below: blood, fire, and vapor of smoke: 20 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and glorious day of the Lord comes:
  • Luke 7:26-28 : 26 But what did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I say to you, and much more than a prophet. 27 This is he, of whom it is written, Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who shall prepare your way before you. 28 For I say to you, Among those that are born of women there is not a greater prophet than John the Baptist: but he who is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he.
  • Luke 9:30 : 30 And behold, two men talked with him, who were Moses and Elijah,
  • Matt 11:13-14 : 13 For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John. 14 And if you will receive it, this is Elijah, who was to come.
  • Matt 27:47-49 : 47 Some of them that stood there, when they heard that, said, This man calls for Elijah. 48 And immediately one of them ran, and took a sponge, and filled it with vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him to drink. 49 The rest said, Let be, let us see whether Elijah will come to save him.

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  • 6 And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the earth with a curse.

  • 4 Remember the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded to him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments.

  • Mal 3:1-2
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    1 Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom you seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom you delight in: behold, he shall come, says the LORD of hosts.

    2 But who may endure the day of his coming? And who shall stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner's fire and like fullers' soap:

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    10 And his disciples asked him, saying, Why then do the scribes say that Elijah must first come?

    11 And Jesus answered and said to them, Elijah truly shall first come, and restore all things.

    12 But I say to you, That Elijah has already come, and they did not know him, but have done to him whatever they wished. Likewise shall also the Son of Man suffer by them.

  • Luke 1:16-17
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    16 He will turn many of the children of Israel to the Lord their God.

    17 He will go before Him in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.

  • 14 And if you will receive it, this is Elijah, who was to come.

  • 10 For this is he, of whom it is written, Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who shall prepare your way before you.

  • 27 This is he, of whom it is written, Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who shall prepare your way before you.

  • 1 For behold, the day comes that shall burn like an oven, and all the proud, yes, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble; and the day that comes shall burn them up, says the LORD of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.

  • 1 Kgs 17:1-2
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    72%

    1 And Elijah the Tishbite, who was one of the inhabitants of Gilead, said to Ahab, As the LORD God of Israel lives, before whom I stand, there shall be neither dew nor rain for these years, except by my word.

    2 And the word of the LORD came to him, saying,

  • Mark 1:2-3
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    2 As it is written in the prophets, Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who shall prepare your way before you.

    3 The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.

  • 28 And the word of the LORD came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,

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    14 And now you say, Go, tell your lord, Behold, Elijah is here: and he shall slay me.

    15 And Elijah said, As the LORD of hosts lives, before whom I stand, I will surely show myself to him today.

  • 31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of the LORD comes.

  • 11 And they asked him, saying, Why do the scribes say that Elijah must first come?

  • 76 And you, child, will be called the prophet of the Highest, for you will go before the face of the Lord to prepare His ways,

  • 20 And He shall send Jesus Christ, who before was preached to you:

  • 2 Before the decree comes forth, before the day passes like chaff, before the fierce anger of the LORD comes upon you, before the day of the LORD'S anger comes upon you.

  • 15 Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand, and as destruction from the Almighty it shall come.

  • 15 For, behold, the LORD will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.

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    11 And now you say, Go, tell your lord, Behold, Elijah is here.

    12 And it shall come to pass, as soon as I am gone from you, that the Spirit of the LORD shall carry you where I know not; and so when I come and tell Ahab, and he cannot find you, he shall slay me: but I your servant have feared the LORD from my youth.

  • 13 But I say to you, that Elijah has indeed come, and they did to him whatever they wished, as it is written of him.

  • 40 Beware therefore, lest that come upon you, which is spoken of in the prophets;

  • 5 And I will come near to you for judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those who oppress the laborer in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who turn aside the stranger from his right, and do not fear me, says the LORD of hosts.

  • 4 Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

  • 14 The great day of the LORD is near, it is near, and hastens greatly, even the voice of the day of the LORD: the mighty man shall cry out there bitterly.

  • 14 Behold, the days come, says the LORD, that I will perform that good thing which I have promised to the house of Israel and to the house of Judah.

  • 3 For behold, the LORD comes forth out of his place, and will come down and tread upon the high places of the earth.

  • 4 Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets proclaimed, saying, Thus says the LORD of hosts: Turn now from your evil ways and from your evil deeds. But they did not hear nor listen to Me, says the LORD.

  • 4 Then the word of the LORD of hosts came to me, saying,

  • 1 And it came to pass after many days, that the word of the LORD came to Elijah in the third year, saying, Go, show yourself to Ahab; and I will send rain upon the earth.

  • Jer 26:4-5
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    4 And you shall say to them, Thus says the LORD: If you will not listen to me, to walk in my law, which I have set before you,

    5 To listen to the words of my servants the prophets, whom I have sent to you, rising early and sending them, but you have not listened;

  • 1 Blow the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain. Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of the LORD is coming, for it is near at hand;

  • 9 Behold, the day of the LORD comes, cruel with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he will destroy the sinners out of it.

  • 5 And you shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yes, you shall flee, as you fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the LORD my God shall come, and all the saints with you.

  • 46 And the hand of the LORD was on Elijah; and he girded up his loins, and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.

  • 9 And it shall come to pass in that day, says the LORD, that the heart of the king shall perish, and the heart of the princes; and the priests shall be astonished, and the prophets shall wonder.

  • 31 Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:

  • 5 But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.

  • 17 And the word of the LORD came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,

  • 8 Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying,