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The Pulpit Commentary - Malachi 3:12

Shall call you blessed; or, happy, as Malachi 3:15 (comp. Deuteronomy 33:29 ; Zechariah 8:13 , Zechariah 8:23 ). A delightsome land; γῆ θελητή ; literally, a land of good pleasure— a land in which God is well pleased (comp. Isaiah 62:4 ; Jeremiah 3:19 ). read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Malachi 3:7

Even from the days of your fathers - Back to those days and from them ye are gone away from My ordinances. “I am not changed from good; ye are not changed from evil. I am unchangeable in holiness; ye are unchangeable in perversity.”Return unto Me - The beginning of our return is from the preventing grace of God. Jeremiah 31:18; Lamentations 5:21, “turn Thou me, and I shall be turned, for Thou art the Lord my God,” is the voice of the soul to God, preparing for His grace; Psalms 85:4, “turn us,... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Malachi 3:8

Shall a man rob or cheat - , defraud God? God answers question by question, but thereby drives it home to the sinner’s soul, and appeals to his conscience. The conscience is steeled, and answers again, “In what?” God specifies two things only, obvious, patent, which, as being material things, they could not deny. “In tithes and offerings.” The offerings included several classes of dues to God:(a) the first fruits ;(b) the annual half-shekel Exodus 30:13-15;(c) the offerings made for the... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Malachi 3:9

Ye have been cursed with the curse - (not “with a curse”). The curse threatened had come upon them: but, as fore-supposed in Leviticus by the repeated burden, “If ye still walk contrary to Me,” they had persevered in evil. God had already shown His displeasure. But they, so far from being amended by it, were the more hardened in their sin. Perhaps as men do, they pleaded their punishment, as a reason why they should not amend. They defrauded God, under false pretences. They were impoverished by... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Malachi 3:10

Bring the whole tithes - , not a part only, keeping back more or less, and, as he had said, defrauding God, offering, like Ananias, apart, as if it had been the whole; into the treasury, where they were collected in the time of Hezekiah and again, at this time, by the direction of Nehemiah, “so that there shall be food,” not superfluity, in My house “for those who minister in the house of My sanctuary.” Nehemiah 13:10-23. “The Levites and singers had, before the reformation, fled every one to... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Malachi 3:11

And I will rebuke the devourer - , the locust, caterpillar, or any like scourge of God. It might be, that when the rain watered the fields, the locust or caterpillar etc. might destroy the grain, so that the labors of man should perish; wherefore he adds, “I will rebuke the devourer. Neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time,” holding out a fair promise, but cut off by the frost-wind or the hail; the blossoms or the unripe fruit strewing the earth, as a token of God’s displeasure. read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Malachi 3:12

All nations shall call you blessed - The promise goes beyond the temporal prosperity of their immediate obedience. Few could know or think much of the restored prolificalness of Judaea; none could know of its antecedents. A people, as well as individuals, may starve, and none know of it. Had the whole population of Judah died out, their Persian masters would not have cared for it, but would have sent fresh colonists to replace them and pay the tribute to the great king. The only interest, which... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Malachi 3:7

Malachi 3:7. Even from the days of your fathers, &c. Here the discourse is again addressed to the wicked, and from hence to the end of Mal 3:12 the people are reprehended for slighting the institutions of divine worship, and for withholding the legal tithes and oblations; are assured that they are under a curse for these violations of the law, and that an opposite conduct would bring on them the divine blessing. Ye are gone away from mine ordinances Those which directed you respecting... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Malachi 3:8-9

Malachi 3:8-9. Will a man rob God Grotius reads, “Would any one dare to rob his judges as ye have robbed me?” the word rendered God sometimes meaning judges or magistrates. Some others render the clause, Is it right that God should be robbed (or defrauded) by man? Here God gives them an answer to their question in the foregoing verse, Wherein shall we return; or, repent and amend? But ye have robbed me Notwithstanding it is so unjust and presumptuous to defraud God, that men in... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Malachi 3:10-12

Malachi 3:10-12. Bring ye all the tithes Make a punctual and full payment of all tithes: and in this instance make good your solemn engagement with Nehemiah, mentioned Nehemiah 10:29. Into the storehouse This was one or more large rooms built on purpose for this use; that there may be meat That there may be provision for the daily sacrifices, and for the maintenance of my ministers, the priests and Levites, who attend upon the service of my temple. And prove me now herewith Make the... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Malachi 3:12

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Malachi 3:7

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Malachi 3:8

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Malachi 3:9

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Malachi 3:10

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Malachi 3:11

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Malachi 3:12

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Malachi 3:7

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Malachi 3:8-9

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Malachi 3:10-12

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