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Mal 2:14 King James Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the LORD hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
Wherefore?--Why does God reject our offerings?

Lord . . . witness between thee and . . . wife--(so Gen 31:49-50).

of thy youth--The Jews still marry very young, the husband often being but thirteen years of age, the wife younger (Pro 5:18; Isa 54:6).

wife of thy covenant--not merely joined to thee by the marriage covenant generally, but by the covenant between God and Israel, the covenant-people, whereby a sin against a wife, a daughter of Israel, is a sin against God [MOORE]. Marriage also is called "the covenant of God" (Pro 2:17), and to it the reference may be (Gen 2:24; Mat 19:6; Co1 7:10).
 
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10 And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:
6 Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
17 Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.
6 For the LORD hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when thou wast refused, saith thy God.
18 Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
49 And Mizpah; for he said, The LORD watch between me and thee, when we are absent one from another.
50 If thou shalt afflict my daughters, or if thou shalt take other wives beside my daughters, no man is with us; see, God is witness betwixt me and thee.
17 Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.
6 Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
49 And Mizpah; for he said, The LORD watch between me and thee, when we are absent one from another.
50 If thou shalt afflict my daughters, or if thou shalt take other wives beside my daughters, no man is with us; see, God is witness betwixt me and thee.