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Malachi 1:2

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I have: The prophet shows in Malachi 1:2-5 how much Jacob and the Israelites were favoured by Jehovah, more than Esau and the Edomites. Through every period of the history of Jacob's posterity, they could not deny that God had remarkably appeared on their behalf; but he had rendered the heritage of Esau's descendants, by wars and various other means, barren and waste forever. Deuteronomy 7:6-8, Deuteronomy 10:15, Deuteronomy 32:8-14; Isaiah 41:8-9, Isaiah 43:4; Jeremiah 31:3; Romans 11:28-29

Wherein: Malachi 1:6-7, Malachi 2:17, Malachi 3:7-8, Malachi 3:13-14; Jeremiah 2:5, Jeremiah 2:31; Luke 10:29

yet I: Genesis 25:23, Genesis 27:27-30, Genesis 27:33, Genesis 28:3-4, Genesis 28:13-14, Genesis 32:28-30, Genesis 48:4; Romans 9:10-13

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