Bible Commentary

And if ye offer the blind for sacrifice, [is it] not evil? and if ye offer the lame and sick, [is it] not evil? offer it now unto thy governor; will he be pleased with thee, or accept thy person? saith the LORD of hosts. 8. if ] Rather, When. Their poverty since the return … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Malachi 1:8”

Ye offer polluted bread upon mine altar; and ye say, Wherein have we polluted thee? In that ye say, The table of the LORD [is] contemptible. 7. Ye offer polluted bread ] i.e. sacrifices. The word is often used in this sense and rendered food; e.g. Lev 3:11; Lev 3:16. Elsewhere the sacrifices are called, … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Malachi 1:7”

A son honoreth [his] father, and a servant his master: if then I [be] a father, where [is] mine honor? and if I [be] a master, where [is] my fear? saith the LORD of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name? Ch. Mal 1:6 … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Malachi 1:6”

And your eyes shall see, and ye shall say, The LORD will be magnified from the border of Israel. 5. your eyes shall see ] Unharmed and in safety yourselves you shall witness the overthrow of Edom (comp. Psa 91:7-8). will be magnified from ] Rather, be magnified over. It is an ascription of praise … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Malachi 1:5”

Whereas Edom saith, We are impoverished, but we will return and build the desolate places; thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall build, but I will throw down; and they shall call them, The border of wickedness, and, The people against whom the LORD hath indignation forever. 4. impoverished ] Rather (with R.V. text, … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Malachi 1:4”

And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness. 3. for the dragons ] Rather, jackals. The unusual form of the word here (fem. instead of masc. as elsewhere) has led many to render, dwellings (LXX. ; and Syr.). But the derivation and meaning are not … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Malachi 1:3”

I have loved you, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? [Was] not Esau Jacob’s brother? saith the LORD: yet I loved Jacob, 2. I have loved you ] I have loved you with an everlasting (Jer 31:3) and unchangeable (Rom 11:29) love. This is the keynote of all that follows. … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Malachi 1:2”

The burden of the word of the LORD to Israel by Malachi. Ch. Mal 1:1. Title 1. burden ] either burden, from its weighty character as a Divine announcement, or oracle as that which is ‘taken up’ (Exo 20:17: Num 23:18) by the speaker. See note on Zec 9:1 in this Series. Malachi ] See … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Malachi 1:1”

Yea, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holiness unto the LORD of hosts: and all they that sacrifice shall come and take of them, and seethe therein: and in that day there shall be no more the Canaanite in the house of the LORD of hosts. 21. take of them ] All … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Zechariah 14:21”

In that day shall there be upon the bells of the horses, HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD; and the pots in the LORD’s house shall be like the bowls before the altar. 20. Holiness unto the Lord ] Holy unto the Lord, R. V., and so in Zec 14:21; Exo 28:36. pots in the Lord’s house … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Zechariah 14:20”