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Malachi 2:3

Behold, I will rebuke your seed, and spread dung upon your faces, the dung of your feasts; and they shall take you away with it.

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces, even the dung of your solemn feasts; and one shall take you away with it.

In Context

2If ye do not hear, and if ye do not lay [it] to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith Jehovah of hosts, I will even send the curse among you, and I will curse your blessings: yea, I have already cursed them, because ye do not lay [it] to heart.

4And ye shall know that I have sent this commandment unto you, that my covenant might be with Levi, saith Jehovah of hosts.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 2:29Wherefore do ye trample upon my sacrifice and upon mine oblation which I have commanded [in my] habitation? And thou honourest thy sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the primest of all the oblations of Israel my people.

1 Kings 14:10therefore behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam every male, him that is shut up and left in Israel, and will take away the house of Jeroboam, as a man taketh away dung, till it be all gone.

Job 20:7Like his own dung doth he perish for ever; they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?

Psalms 83:10Who were destroyed at Endor; they became as dung for the ground.

Joel 1:10The field is laid waste, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted, the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.

Nahum 3:6And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazing stock.

Matthew Henry on Malachi 2:2-10

The Office of the Priesthood; Charge against the Priests; The Priests Censured and Threatened. ( b. c. 400.) 1 And now, O ye priests, this commandment is for you. 2 If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith the Lord of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings: yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay it to heart. 3 Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces, even the dung of your solemn feasts;… Read the whole commentary →

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