Malachi 2:5 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Here is one covenant that is more particular than any, a covenant of priesthood between God and a particular tribe. With him: Levi is named Zechariah 2:4, and I will rest there, though I know some would have it be Aaron, or Phinehas. Of life and peace; of long life, and prosperous, by covenant under the provisoes therein contained, assured to the Levites in their due ministrations before God. I gave them, both lives, (the word is dual,) or life and prosperity. For the fear wherewith he feared me; religious fear, or that gracious qualification which appeared in the acts of it, for he feared before God. And was afraid before my name; behaved himself with reverence and trembling before God. It is the same repeated for confirmation of the former, or perhaps it may imply the habitual name of reverence from a contrite heart, which is here pointed at, and commended in this person under the name of Levi.