““I have loved you,” says the LORD. But you ask, “How have You loved us?” “Was not Esau Jacob’s brother?” declares the LORD. “Yet Jacob I have loved,”
Malachi 1:2
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What do loved and hated mean here?
Loved here is ahav (H157), and hated in Malachi 1:3 is sane (H8130). Israel's inheritance law uses exactly that pair of words (Deuteronomy 21:15), which helps explain this hard line about Jacob and Esau.
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Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated
“So it is written: “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.””
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