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John Gill
INTRODUCTION TO Malachi 3 This chapter begins with a prophecy of John the Baptist, the forerunner of Christ; and of the coming of Christ, and the effects and consequences of it, with respect both to the righteous and the wicked; and it contains accusations and charges of sin against the Jews, intermixed with exhortations to repentance. John the Baptist is promised to be sent, and is described by...
John Gill
Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another,.... Abarbinel thinks this is a continuation of the speech of the wicked; observing, that while they that work wickedness were set up, and they that tempted God escaped punishment, they that were religious, and feared God, "were destroyed one with another", particularly by the plague; so he would have the word נדברו rendered, which we...
Matthew Henry
In this chapter we have, I. A promise of the coming of the Messiah, and of his forerunner; and the errand he comes upon is here particularly described, both the comfort which his coming brings to his church and people and the terror which it will bring to the wicked, ver. 1-6. II. A reproof of the Jews for their corrupting God's ordinances and sacrilegiously robbing him of his dues, with a charge...
Charles H. Spurgeon
Then — At that very time, — Mal_3:16. They that feared the LORD spake often one to another: They could not bear to hear their God thus spoken of, so they went to one another’s houses, they found one another out, and talked to one another. Mal_3:16. And the Lord hearkened, — He loves to listen to the holy talk of a holy people: “The Lord hearkened,” — Mal_3:16. And heard it, and a book of...