Cross references

Malachi 1:3

but Esau I have hated, and I have made his mountains a wasteland and left his inheritance to the desert jackals.”

Malachi 1:3 BSB
  1. a Cited in Romans 9:13
  2. b Or to the serpents of the wilderness or to the dragons of the wilderness

Malachi 1:3 has 20 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 2 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Joel 3:19 (4 votes) and Obadiah 1:10 (4 votes). 36 other verses point back to it. It links with 17 other books, from Genesis 25 to Romans 9.

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Which verses does Malachi 1:3 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. Joel 3:194 votes

    Egypt will become desolate, and Edom a desert wasteland, because of the violence done to the people of Judah, in whose land they shed innocent blood.

  2. Because of the violence against your brother Jacob, you will be covered with shame and cut off forever.

  3. The terror you cause and the pride of your heart have deceived you, O dwellers in the clefts of the rocks, O occupiers of the mountain summit. Though you elevate your nest like the eagle, even from there I will bring you down,” declares the LORD. “Edom will become an object of horror. All who pass by will be appalled and will scoff at all her wounds. …

  4. and declare that this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, I am against you, O Mount Seir. I will stretch out My hand against you and make you a desolate waste. I will turn your cities into ruins, and you will become a desolation. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

  5. Jacob slept with Rachel as well, and indeed, he loved Rachel more than Leah. So he worked for Laban another seven years. When the LORD saw that Leah was unloved, He opened her womb; but Rachel was barren.

  6. But desert creatures will lie down there, and howling creatures will fill her houses. Ostriches will dwell there, and wild goats will leap about. Hyenas will howl in her fortresses and jackals in her luxurious palaces. Babylon’s time is at hand, and her days will not be prolonged.

  7. Edom’s streams will be turned to tar, and her soil to sulfur; her land will become a blazing pitch. It will not be quenched—day or night. Its smoke will ascend forever. From generation to generation it will lie desolate; no one will ever again pass through it. …

  8. The parched ground will become a pool, the thirsty land springs of water. In the haunt where jackals once lay, there will be grass and reeds and papyrus.

  9. “And I will make Jerusalem a heap of rubble, a haunt for jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.”

  10. But I will strip Esau bare; I will uncover his hiding places, and he will be unable to conceal himself. His descendants will be destroyed along with his relatives and neighbors, and he will be no more.

  11. Luke 14:262 votes

Which verses point to Malachi 1:3?

The 10 strongest of 36.