Malachi 4:5 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

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

Malachi 4:5 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Behold I will send (I send, as a future, proximate in the prophet’s mind) you Elijah the prophet - The Archangel Gabriel interprets this for us, to include the sending of John the Immerser. For h...
Malachi 4:5 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Behold, I will send you (e) Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and (f) dreadful day of the LORD: (e) This Christ interprets of John the Baptist, who both for his zeal, and restoring o...
Malachi 4:5 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Conclusion. The book closes with an exhortation to observe the Torah or instruction given through Moses; the mention of Horeb, a Deuteronomic trait (P prefers Sinai) perhaps indicates that Malachi...
Malachi 4:5 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

The Prophet continues the same subject; for having testified to the Jews, that though God would for a time suspend the course of prophetic teaching, they yet had in the law what was sufficient...
Malachi 4:5 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 1277 ELIJAH TO PRECEDE OUR LORD Malachi 4:5-6 . Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord: and he shall turn the heart of...
Malachi 4:5 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD: Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet - This is meant alone of John the Baptist, as we lea...
Malachi 4:5 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Behold, I will send you Elijah, &c.— This prophesy, says Bishop Chandler, is a repetition of that in chap. Malachi 3:1 only the name of the messenger is added to it, with the manner of his...
Malachi 4:5 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD: Behold, I will send you Elijah - as a means toward your "remembering the law" ( Malachi...
Malachi 4:5 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

4 The New Elijah 1. The comparison is to an oven heated by a fire lighted within it: cp. Matthew 6:30 . This passage is closely connected with the preceding. Stubble ] rather, 'straw.' 2 . 'T...
Malachi 4:5 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

CONCLUDING ADMONITION. (4-6) As the prophetical books began ( Joshua 1:2 ; Joshua 1:8 ) with “ Moses my servant is dead... this book of the Law shall not be removed from thy mouth, &c.,” s...
Malachi 4:5 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

4; Malachi 2:1-17 ; Malachi 3:1-18 ; Malachi 4:1-6 PROPHECY WITHIN THE LAW "MALACHI" 1-4 BENEATH this title we may gather all the eight sections of the Book of "Malachi." They contain many...
Malachi 4:5 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Wickedness and Pride Shall Find Judgment Malachi 3:13-18 ; Malachi 4:1-6 The day cometh! either in the fall of Jerusalem or in some terrible catastrophe yet future. Whenever it comes may we be...
Malachi 4:5 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

All this leads to his great declaration concerning the coming day. This day he described in its twofold effect. Toward the wicked it would be a day of burning and of destruction. Toward the righteous...
Malachi 4:5 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

I cannot but suppose that Elijah, and not John the Baptist, is intended here. I do not presume to say so much, but I venture to think it. Malachi had already declared the coming of John the Baptist,...
Malachi 4:5 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

THE SECOND ELIJAH ‘Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord … lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.’ Malachi 4:5-6 Let u...
Malachi 4:5 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet ,.... Not the Tishbite, as the Septuagint version wrongly inserts instead of prophet; not Elijah in person, who lived in the times of Ahab; but John the Ba...
Malachi 4:5 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD: Ver. 5. Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet ] Not Elijah the Tishbite, as the Septuag...
Malachi 4:5 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet The first prophet that I shall send to you, after him who now speaks to you, will be Elijah the messenger, that shall go before the Messiah to prepare his...
Malachi 4:5 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Evangelical Predictions. B. C. 400. 4 Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I...
Malachi 4:5 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

I will send; though the spirit of propheey cease for four hundred years, yet at the expiring of those years you shall have one sent, as great as Elijah, and therefore he is now called Elijah, that...
Malachi 4:5 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Final Exhortation ( Malachi 4:4-6 ). YHWH finalises Malachi's prophecy by pointing to ‘the Law and the prophets. Firstly He turns their thoughts to His Instruction given through Moses, and the...
Malachi 4:5 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES.] The ungodly admonished for the day ] of judgment. Results to the wicked awful. Burn ] as an oven ] or furnace (cf. Matthew 6:30 ). “A fire burns more fiercely in a furnace than...
Malachi 4:5 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Malachi 4:4-5 Notice: I. Some points of resemblance between Moses and Elijah in their respective histories. (1) Moses and Elijah were both witnesses for God in a wicked age. They were confessors...
Malachi 4:5 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Malachi 4:1-2 . For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LO...
Malachi 4:5 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Malachi 4:1 . Behold, the day cometh that shall burn as an oven. The anger of God against the jews for crucifying “the Lord of glory,” and persecuting his saints. The sin of rejecting the remedy i...
Malachi 4:5 - The Biblical Illustrator

Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet. Malachi’s predictions Of the prophecies relating to the Messias some were so obscure, and had such an appearance of inconsistency, if applied to one...
Malachi 4:5 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Malachi 4:1-39 4. The final separation of the evil and the good at the day of judgment. Malachi 4:1 Burn as an oven ( a furnace ) . Fire is often spoken of in connecti...
Malachi 4:5 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Sun of Righteousness and His Forerunner. The prophet, having addressed the scoffers in words of warning, in conclusion describes the results of the Lord's appointing that day of which He had s...
Malachi 4:5 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Acts 2:19 ; Acts 2:20 ; Isaiah 40:3 ; Joel 2:31 ; John 1:21 ; John 1:25 ; Luke 1:17 ; Luke 7:26-28 ; Luke 9:30 ; Malachi 3:1 ; Malachi 4:1 ; Mark 9:11-13 ; Matthew 11:13 ; Matthew 11:14...
Malachi 4:5 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Behold I will send — Though the spirit of prophecy cease for four hundred years, yet at the expiring of those years, you shall have one sent, as great as Elijah. Elijah — Namely John the Baptist, w...

Malachi 4:5 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Malachi 4:5 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Malachi 4:5 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Malachi 4:5 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Malachi 4:5 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Malachi 4:5 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Malachi 4:5 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Malachi 4:5 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Malachi 4:5 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Malachi 4:5 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Malachi 4:5 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Malachi 4:5 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Malachi 4:5 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Malachi 4:5 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Malachi 4:5 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

Malachi 4:5 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Malachi 4:5 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Malachi 4:5 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Malachi 4:5 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Malachi 4:5 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Malachi 4:5 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Malachi 4:5 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Malachi 4:5 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Malachi 4:5 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Malachi 4:5 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Malachi 4:5 - The Biblical Illustrator

Malachi 4:5 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Malachi 4:5 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Malachi 4:5 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Malachi 4:5 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes