Malachi 1

Chap. I. Ver. 11. The book of the generation.—This term is here generally

Ver. 11. Josias begat Jechonias.—{The marginal reading is found in many MSS., and should probably be received into the text; for Josiah was the immediate father of Jojakim and his brethren, ((Malachi 3:15);) and Joiakim was the father of Jechoniah about the time of the first Babylonian captivity; and it also completes the number of fourteen in this second class of generations, and forty-two in the whole. |—Bagster. —It is well known that the Jews espoused very young, but it was often several months, and even years, before the parties came together, according as it was settled by their parents.

Ver. 19. To put her away privily—That is, by a private divorce, in which no reason is required to be assigned, nor is the dowry forfeited, or the character defamed.

Selden and Lightfoot, in ROSA.