Malachi 4:5 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁵Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD:

Malachi 4:5 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Luke 1:17
And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.
Matthew 17:10-13
And his disciples asked him, saying, Why then say the scribes that Elias must first come? …
Mark 9:11-13
And they asked him, saying, Why say the scribes that Elias must first come? …
Matthew 11:13-14
For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John. …
Malachi 3:1
Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 4-6)

This is doubtless intended for a solemn conclusion, not only of this prophecy, but of the canon of the Old Testament, and is a plain information that they were not to expect any more sayings nor writing by divine inspiration, any more of the dictates of the Spirit of prophecy, till the beginning of the gospel of the Messiah, which sets aside the Apocrypha as no part of holy writ, and which therefo…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 5)

5. I send you Elijah--as a means towards your “remembering the law” (Mal 4:4). the prophet--emphatical; not “the Tishbite”; for it is in his official, not his personal capacity, that his coming is here predicted. In this sense, John the Baptist was an Elijah in spirit (Lu 1:16, 17), but not the literal Elijah; whence when asked, “Art thou Elias?” (Joh 1:21), He answered, “I am not.” “Art thou that…