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Malachi 3:13-15

The sin of speaking against God -- Malachi 3:13-15: The Jews denied that they were doing anything wrong. This amounted to saying that God was making false charges against them. The attitude of these Jews was terrible. They felt that God was wrong in His dealings with them. They said very disrespectful things to God. They even denied that it is worthwhile to obey the will of God. God said,"Your words have been (insolent) harsh against Me," Says the LORD." These people thought that God owed them something for living under His law. They even said the arrogant were blessed by the Lord and that the wicked prospered. We do well to remember that God always looks at the hearts of those who come before Him.

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See also Malachi 3:13-15 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Malachi 3:13. _YOUR WORDS HAVE BEEN STOUT AGAINST ME_] He speaks here to _open infidels_ and _revilers_. _WHAT HAVE WE SPOKEN_] They are ready either to deny the whole, or impudently to maintai...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    YOUR WORDS HAVE BEEN STOUT AGAINST ME - , probably “oppressive to Me,” as it is said, the famine was strong upon the land. And ye have said, “What have we spoken among ourselves against Thee?” Again,...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    REBUKE FOR DEFRAUDING THE LORD CHAPTER 3:7-15 Another rebuke is administered. They were alway a stiff-necked people, never obedient to His ordinances. His gracious call to return unto Him, and the pr...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    MALACHI 3:13 TO MALACHI 4:3. THE FINAL TRIUMPH OF RIGHTEOUSNESS. The prophet here returns to the complaint of those who thought that religion did not pay (with Malachi 3:14; cf....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Malachi 3:13 to Malachi 4:3 The righteous judgment of God 13. _have been stout_ See Malachi 2:17. Comp. Job 21:14-15;...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    IF THE PEOPLE WILL RETURN IN DEVOTION TO GOD HE WILL YET BLESS THEM. Malachi 3:7-12 RV. From the days of your fathers ye have turned aside from mine ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto me...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Your words have been stout against me, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, What have we spoken so much against thee? He notices the complaint of the Jews, that it is of no profit to serve Yahweh, for that...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    3 The Speedy Judgment 1. This v. is closely connected with the preceding. It is the answer to the question, 'Where is the God of judgment?' The messenger is evidently a prophet or a succession of pro...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    MY *MESSENGER MALACHI _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ CHAPTER 3 V1 ‘Look at me! I will send my *messenger. He will prepare the way for me. Then, suddenly, the *Lord that you are looking for will come to his...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    REBUKE OF INFIDELITY. THE ADVENT OF THE LORD FORETOLD (MALACHI 2:17 TO MALACHI 3:18). (17) A new section of the prophecy begins with this verse. The prophet now directs his reproofs against the people...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    YOUR WORDS... AGAINST ME. — Better, _your words put a constraint on me_: viz., to prove myself to you to be “the God of judgment.” SPOKEN. — Or rather, _conversed together._ (Comp. Malachi 3:16.) They...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    חָזְק֥וּ עָלַ֛י דִּבְרֵיכֶ֖ם אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֑ה וַ...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    7. THE JUDGMENT TO COME Malachi 3:13; Hebrews 3:13; Hebrews 4:1 This is another charge to the doubters among the pious remnant of Israel, who, seeing the success of the wicked, said it is vain to ser...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    Malachi 2:1; Malachi 3:1; Malachi 4:1 PROPHECY WITHIN THE LAW "MALACHI" 1-4 BENEATH this title we may gather all the eight sections of the Book of "Malachi." They contain many things of perennial i...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    WICKEDNESS AND PRIDE SHALL FIND JUDGMENT Malachi 3:13-18; Malachi 4:1-6 The day cometh! either in the fall of Jerusalem or in some terrible catastrophe yet future. Whenever it comes may we be reckone...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    The last division of the Book contains the prophet's announcement of the coming of Messiah. It falls into three sections, one dealing with the coming One, one dealing with the Coming Day, and one utte...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Your words have been stout (m) against me, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, What have we spoken [so much] against thee? (m) The Prophet condemns them of double blasphemy against God: first, in that they s...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    I include the whole of these verses under one reading, in order to observe in them what the last verse expresseth, the discerning between the righteous and the wicked. And what can more strikingly set...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    Lectures on the Minor Prophets. W. Kelly. The Lord has not been pleased to give us much express information of the prophets in general, with the exception of Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Daniel, and in a me...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    Here again God expostulates with the Jews on account of their impious and wicked blasphemy in saying, that he disappointed his servants, and that he made no difference between good and evil, because h...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 1 THROUGH 4. The prophecy of Malachi deals with the people brought back from the captivity of Babylon, and is most important as shewing the moral condition of...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    YOUR WORDS HAVE BEEN STOUT AGAINST ME, SAITH THE LORD,.... Hard and strong; they bore very hardly upon him, were exceeding impudent and insolent; murmuring at his providence; arraigning his justice an...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Your words have been stout against me, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, What have we spoken [so much] against thee? Ver. 13. _Your words have been stout against me_] Or, re-enforced, or strongly confirmed...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Your words_, &c. “From this verse to the end of Malachi 4:3, the prophet expostulates with the wicked for their hard speeches; and declares that God will make a fearful distinction between them and t...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Your words have been stout against Me, salth the Lord, namely, in the murmuring which He has rebuked above. YET YE SAY, WHAT HAVE WE SPOKEN SO MUCH AGAINST THEE? The Lord's answer through His prophet...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE WAYS OF GOD VINDICATED...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    13-18 Among the Jews at this time, some plainly discovered themselves to be children of the wicked one. The yoke of Christ is easy. But those who work wickedness, tempt God by presumptuous sins. Judg...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    YOUR WORDS; your discourses concerning my providences over you and others, your reasonings, censures, and verdicts passed on your own ways, and on the ways of your God. HAVE BEEN STOUT; proudly justif...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Malachi 3:13 words H1697 harsh H2388 (H8804) Says H559 (H8804) LORD H3068 say H559 (H8804) spoken...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Malachi 3:1. _Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me:_ The name Malachi means «my messenger.» The reference here is, of course, to John the Baptist, who was to prepa...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Mission of John the Baptist, and Christ's first advent foretold. Israel exhorted to return to God. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Malachi, John the Baptist. CONCLUSION: Those who deny God His pa...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Malachi 3:1. _Behold, I send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me._ John the baptist, as our Saviour himself expounds this passage. Matthew 11:7. _The Lord whom ye seek,_ and for whom...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES. Malachi 3:13.] Impatient murmuring is most unreasonable; the day is coming which will bring to light the distinction between the righteous and the wicked. MALACHI 3:13. STOUT] (bold)...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION MALACHI 3:1 BEHOLD, I WILL SEND (_I send_) MY MESSENGER. God answers that he is coming to show himself the God of judgment and justice. Are they ready to meet him and to bear his sentence?...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now the promise of the coming of John the Baptist as the forerunner to Jesus Christ. Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenl...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Chronicles 32:14; 2 Thessalonians 2:4; Exodus 5:2; Isaiah 28:14;...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    VITAL QUESTIONS Malachi 1:1; Malachi 2:1; Malachi 3:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The Book of Malachi presents questions asked by God. In response, instead of a direct answer, the chosen people, Israel, ask...

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