Cross references

Malachi 2:8

But you have departed from the way, and your instruction has caused many to stumble. You have violated the covenant of Levi,” says the LORD of Hosts.

Malachi 2:8 BSB

Malachi 2:8 has 23 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 3 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Nehemiah 13:29 (7 votes) and Jeremiah 17:5 (4 votes). 38 other verses point back to it. It links with 21 other books, from Leviticus 21 to Hebrews 3.

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Which verses does Malachi 2:8 point to?

The 20 strongest of 23, ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood and the covenant of the priesthood and of the Levites.

  2. This is what the LORD says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind, who makes mere flesh his strength and turns his heart from the LORD.

  3. Yet My people have forgotten Me. They burn incense to worthless idols that make them stumble in their ways, leaving the ancient roads to walk on rutted bypaths instead of on the highway.

  4. Thus the sin of these young men was severe in the sight of the LORD, for they were treating the LORD’s offering with contempt.

  5. Get out of the way; turn off the road. Rid us of the Holy One of Israel!”

  6. Surely the Levites who wandered away from Me when Israel went astray, and who wandered away from Me after their idols, will bear the consequences of their iniquity.

  7. “My covenant with him was one of life and peace, which I gave to him; it called for reverence, and he revered Me and stood in awe of My name.

  8. so that he does not defile his offspring among his people, for I am the LORD who sanctifies him.”

  9. No, my sons; it is not a good report I hear circulating among the LORD’s people.

  10. Therefore, the LORD, the God of Israel, declares: ‘I did indeed say that your house and the house of your father would walk before Me forever. But now the LORD declares: Far be it from Me! For I will honor those who honor Me, but those who despise Me will be disdained.

  11. “So I in turn have made you despised and humiliated before all the people, because you have not kept My ways, but have shown partiality in matters of the law.” Do we not all have one Father? Did not one God create us? Why then do we break faith with one another so as to profane the covenant of our fathers?

Which verses point to Malachi 2:8?

The 10 strongest of 38.