Matthew Poole and continuators on Malachi 2:5

5 My covenant was with him of life and peace , and I gave them to him for the fear wherewith he feared me, and was afraid before my Name .

Here is one Covenant that is more particular than any; a Covenant of Priesthood between God, and a particular Tribe.

Levi is named ver. 4. and I will rest there, though I know some would have it be Aaron, or Phineas.

Of long Life, and prosperous, by covenant under the provisoes therein contained, assured to the Levites in their due ministrations before God,

Both Lifes, the word is dual, or Life and Prosperity;

Religious fear, or that gracious qualification which appeared in the acts of it, for he feared before God.

Behaved himself with Reverence and trembling before God. It is the same repeated for confirmation of the former, or perhaps it may imply the habitual frame of Reverence from a contrite heart, which is here pointed at, and commended in this person under the name of Levi.

Marginal references: Num. 25 11, 12.; Deut. 33.8, 9.