Malachi 1:7
Ye offer polluted bread upon my altar. And ye say, How have we polluted thee? In that ye say, The table of LORD is contemptible.
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Leviticus 2:11No meal-offering, which ye shall offer to LORD, shall be made with leaven, for ye shall burn no leaven, nor any honey, as an offering made by fire to LORD.
Deuteronomy 15:21And if it has any blemish, [as] lame or blind, any ill blemish whatever, thou shall not sacrifice it to LORD thy God.
Ezekiel 41:22The altar was of wood, three cubits high, and the length of it two cubits, and the corners of it, and the length of it, and the walls of it, were of wood. And he said to me, This is the table that is before LORD.
Malachi 1:12But ye profane it, in that ye say, The table of LORD is polluted. And the fruit of it, even its food, is contemptible.
1 Corinthians 11:21For each man proceeds to eat his own meal, and one is hungry and another is drunken.
Matthew Henry on Malachi 1:7-14
God's Remonstrance with the Priests; Judgment of Wicked Priests. ( b. c. 400.) 6 A son honoureth his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is mine honour? 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? 7 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. 8 And if ye offer the blind for sacrifice,… Read the whole commentary →