Bible Strands
Malachi 2:10
Do we not all have one Father? Did not one God create us? Why then do we break faith with one another so as to profane the covenant of our fathers?
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The prophet addresses the priests and the people of Judah, bridging the rebuke of the priests (2:9) with the charge against Judah's intermarriage (2:11). The moment is a rhetorical indictment: shared origin is invoked to expose broken faith.
The words — בְּרָאָנוּ (bĕrā'ānû), "did he create us," uses בָּרָא (bārā'), the verb reserved for God as the sole subject in Hebrew Scripture. Its presence here anchors the argument in the uniqueness of divine authorship.
The thread — Psalms 100:3 states the same premise: "He made us, and we are His." 1 Corinthians 8:6 echoes it in Pauline form: "one God the Father, from whom all things came."
Why it lands — The verse makes a logical demand: if one Father and one Creator ground the community, then breaking faith with one another is not merely a social failure but a contradiction of origin. It asks the reader to treat covenant obligation as a consequence of shared being, not a matter of preference.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us? why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, by profaning the covenant of our fathers?
Cross-references
- Psalms 100:3 Know that the LORD is God. It is He who made us, and we are His; we are His people, and the sheep of His pasture.
- Malachi 2:11 Judah has broken faith; an abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem. For Judah has profaned the LORD’s beloved sanctuary by marrying the daughter of a foreign god.
- 1 Corinthians 8:6 yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we exist. And there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and through whom we exist.
- Ephesians 4:6 one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.
- Isaiah 63:16 Yet You are our Father, though Abraham does not know us and Israel does not acknowledge us. You, O LORD, are our Father; our Redeemer from Everlasting is Your name.
- Isaiah 64:8 But now, O LORD, You are our Father; we are the clay, and You are the potter; we are all the work of Your hand.
- Micah 7:2 The godly man has perished from the earth; there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; they hunt one another with a net.
- Malachi 2:14 Yet you ask, “Why?” It is because the LORD has been a witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have broken faith, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant.
- Matthew 3:9 And do not presume to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I tell you that out of these stones God can raise up children for Abraham.
- Acts 7:26 The next day he came upon two Israelites who were fighting, and he tried to reconcile them, saying, ‘Men, you are brothers. Why are you mistreating each other?’