Malachi 1:3

God's love for Jacob is contrasted with His rejection of Esau, whose land Edom He left desolate.

Cross-references · 20

• Joel 3:19Egypt will be a desolation, and Edom will be a desolate wilderness, for the violence done to the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.
• Obad 1:10For the violence done to your brother Jacob, shame will cover you, and you will be cut off forever.
• Jer 49:16–18As for your terror, the pride of your heart has deceived you, O you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, who hold the height of the hill, though you should make your nest as high as the eagle, I will bring you down from there,” says Yahweh.
• Ezek 35:3–4and tell it, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against you, Mount Seir, and I will stretch out my hand against you, and I will make you a desolation and an astonishment.
• Ezek 36:14–15therefore you shall devour men no more, neither bereave your nation any more, says the Lord Yahweh;
• Jer 51:37Babylon will become heaps, a dwelling place for jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.
• Isa 34:9–14Its streams will be turned into pitch, its dust into sulfur, And its land will become burning pitch.
• Jer 49:10But I have made Esau bare, I have uncovered his secret places, and he will not be able to hide himself. His offspring is destroyed, with his brothers and his neighbors; and he is no more.
• Ezek 36:9For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn into you, and you shall be tilled and sown;
• Isa 13:21–22But wild animals of the desert will lie there, and their houses will be full of jackals. Ostriches will dwell there, and wild goats will frolic there.
• Gen 29:30–31He went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.
• Ezek 25:13–14therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh, I will stretch out my hand on Edom, and will cut off man and animal from it; and I will make it desolate from Teman; even to Dedan shall they fall by the sword.
• Ezek 36:3–4therefore prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because, even because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that you might be a possession to the residue of the nations, and you are taken up in the lips of talkers, and the evil report of the people;
• Luke 14:26“If anyone comes to me, and doesn’t disregard his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can’t be my disciple.
• Isa 35:7The burning sand will become a pool, and the thirsty ground springs of water. Grass with reeds and rushes will be in the habitation of jackals, where they lay.
• Obad 1:18–21The house of Jacob will be a fire, the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble. They will burn among them, and devour them. There will not be any remaining to the house of Esau.” Indeed, Yahweh has spoken.
• Jer 9:11“I will make Jerusalem heaps, a dwelling place of jackals. I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.”
• Ezek 36:7therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: I have sworn, Surely the nations that are around you, they shall bear their shame.
• Ezek 35:7–8Thus will I make Mount Seir an astonishment and a desolation; and I will cut off from it him who passes through and him who returns.
• Deut 21:15–16If a man has two wives, the one beloved, and the other hated, and they have borne him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son is hers who was hated;

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