Malachi 3:8
If a man will afflict God, then you greatly afflict me. And you have said, “In what way, do we afflict you?” In tithes and in first-fruits.
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In The King James Version
In Context
9And you have been cursed with privation, and you greatly afflict me, even your entire people.
Cross References
Leviticus 19:25And in the fifth year you shall eat the produce, gathering the fruits which are brought forth. I am the Lord your God.
Numbers 18:21But I have given, to the sons of Levi, all the tithes of Israel as a possession, for the ministry by which they serve me in the tabernacle of the covenant,
Nehemiah 13:4And Eliashib, the priest, was over this task; he had been given charge of the treasury of the house of our God, and he was a close relative of Tobiah.
Psalms 29:2I will extol you, Lord, for you have sustained me, and you have not allowed my enemies to delight over me.
Proverbs 11:24Some distribute their own goods, and they become wealthier. Others seize what is not their own, and they are always in need.
Malachi 1:8If you offer the blind for sacrifice, is this not evil? And if you offer the lame and the sick, is this not evil? Offer it to your leader, if he will be pleased with it, or if he will accept your face, says the Lord of hosts.
Matthew Henry on Malachi 3:8-13
The Sins of the People; Encouragements to Repentance. ( b. c. 400.) 7 Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the Lord of hosts. But ye said, Wherein shall we return? 8 Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings. 9 Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation. 10 Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that… Read the whole commentary →