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Malachi 3:6-12

Malachi 3:6 Fifth Dispute: How Shall We Repent? Can a Man Rob God? Malachi returns to the subject of Israel’s offerings, which he first addressed in the second dispute (Malachi 1:6). When Israel returned from exile, they neglected to offer their tithes (see Nehemiah 13:10). Crop failure and disease did not excuse their unfaithfulness (Malachi 3:10). These natural disasters were the result of, not the cause of, the nation’s disobedience (v. Malachi 3:8).

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Malachi 3:6. _I_ am _the Lord, I change not_] The new dispensation of grace and goodness, which is _now_ about to be introduced, is not the effect of any _change_ in my _counsels_; it is, on th...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    I AM THE LORD, I CHANGE NOT - , better, more concisely, “I, the Lord I CHANGE NOT - . The proper name of God, “He who Is,” involves His unchangeableness. For change implies imperfection; it changes to...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    4. THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE MESSENGER AND THE DAY OF THE LORD CHAPTER 3:1-6 In this chapter and in the next we have the prophecies of Malachi as to the Messiah and His forerunner. The last verse of th...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    MALACHI 2:17 TO MALACHI 3:6. THE COMING OF JUDGMENT. This passage is addressed to those of the prophet's contemporaries who were so perplexed by the state of things around them that they had become sc...

  • B. W. Johnson's Bible Commentary

    AM THE LORD,. CHANGE NOT; THEREFORE YE SONS OF JACOB ARE NOT CONSUMED. Of old the Lord had made. covenant in which he had promised that in the seed of Abraham all nations should be blessed. The Lord,...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _For I am the Lord, I change not_ Rather: FOR I, THE LORD, CHANGE NOT: THEREFORE (lit. AND) YE, SONS OF JACOB, ARE NOT CONSUMED. The unchangeableness of Him, whose name, Jehovah, " I AM," is the expon...

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _THE SIN OF INGRATITUDE -- MALACHI 3:6-12:_ The people did not see that they had any need to repent. Malachi moved to discuss in more details two specific sins of the Jews. The first was that they wer...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 1273 THE IMMUTABILITY OF GOD Malachi 3:6. _I, the Lord, change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed_. THERE is not any thing in the whole creation that is in itself immutable....

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    FOR I AM THE LORD, I CHANGE NOT— "Because I am the same yesterday, to-day, and for ever, and am true to the promises given to your fathers, therefore you still continue a people, and are not consumed...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    CHAPTER XLV THE COMING DAY OF THE LORD THE LORD WILL SEND A MESSENGER TO PREPARE FOR HIS DAY. Malachi 2:17 to Malachi 3:6. RV. Ye have wearied Jehovah with your words. Yet ye say, Wherein have we we...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed. FOR I AM THE LORD - Yahweh: a name implying his immutable faithfulness in fulfilling His promises: the covenant-name o...

  • 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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    I CHANGE NOT] better, 'I have not changed.' The THEREFORE in the following clause is wrong: the Heb. has 'but you' (emphatic) 'are not consumed.' As this yields no antithesis, it is not improbable tha...

  • 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

    FOR I AM THE LORD, I CHANGE NOT. — Better, _For I Jehovah change not._ Because it is the Eternal’s unchangeable will that the sons of Jacob, His chosen people, should not perish as a nation, He will p...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    כִּ֛י אֲנִ֥י יְהוָ֖ה לֹ֣א שָׁנִ֑יתִי וְ אַתֶּ

  • 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...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    6. REPENTANCE BY TITHES Malachi 3:6 This section ought perhaps to follow on to the preceding. Those whom it blames for not paying the Temple tithes may be the skeptics addressed in the previous secti...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    A PURGING FROM EVIL Malachi 3:1-12 The opening verses of this chapter stir the heart like the call of a trumpet. We remember how literally they were fulfilled in the presentation of our Lord in the T...

  • 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

    For I [am] the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob (f) are not consumed. (f) They murmured against God, because they did not see his help which was ever present to defend them: and therefo...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Change. Hebrew also, (Haydock) "hate or recommence." I do not strike the fallen. Did I spare Sennacherib? &c. Have I not protected the posterity of Jacob? How then can you say that I am indifferent a...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Here we have the confirmation of that glorious truth, which is the distinguishing character of Jehovah, his unchangeableness. And, Reader! amidst the perpetual fluctuating, dying, and perishing circum...

  • 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 the Prophet more clearly reproves and checks the impious waywardness of the people; for God, after having said that he would come and send a Redeemer, though not such as would satisfy the Jews, n...

  • 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

    FOR I [AM] THE LORD,.... Or Jehovah; a name peculiar to the most High, and so a proof of the deity of Christ, who here speaks; and is expressive of his being; of his self-existence; of his purity and...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    For I [am] the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed. Ver. 6. _For I am the Lord, I change not_] I am Jehovah. This is God's proper and incommunicable name. It imports three...

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

    _I am the Lord_ Hebrew, _Jehovah; I change not_ In my nature or perfections there is no change, or _shadow of turning_, and therefore I have and always must have an unchangeable hatred to all sin: and...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE GREAT DAY OF THE LORD. Jehovah's Messenger and the Angel of the Covenant....

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    For I am the Lord, I change not, the name Jehovah itself indicating that He is the same from everlasting to everlasting; THEREFORE YE SONS OF JACOB ARE NOT CONSUMED, literally, "and ye, the Sons of Ja...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-6 The first words of this chapter seem an answer to the scoffers of those days. Here is a prophecy of the appearing of John the Baptist. He is Christ's harbinger. He shall prepare the way before hi...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    This introduceth the final and full confirmation of what hath been foretold in the verses before, the God of judgment will come, &c. I CHANGE NOT: as he loved righteousness, and hath purposed to defen...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Malachi 3:6 LORD H3068 change H8138 (H8804) consumed H3615 (H8804) sons H1121 Jacob H3290 I am -...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE COMING ACTIVITY OF GOD (MALACHI 3:1) The question, ‘Where is the God of Justice?' (Malachi 2:17) was obviously a two-edged one, but it is questionable whether the people of Judah wanted God to be...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Malachi 3:6 We can all of us, perhaps, look back to occasions when, if God had been pleased suddenly to call us away, in the state in which we were living at that moment, we could only have put our ha...

  • 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 Biblical Illustrator

    _For I am the Lord, I change not; therefore, ye sons of Jacob are not consumed._ THE DIVINE UNCHANGEABLENESS Here, in the land of our exile, we must live by faith, not by sight. Fear of Him who is th...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Behold, I will send My messenger._ MESSIAH’S MESSENGER The coming of the Messiah was in the time of the world’s deepest wants. As in all instances of national degeneracy, two special causes bore th...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES. Malachi 3:6. I Jehovah] am unchangeable in gifts and calling, therefore sons of JACOB] (contrasted with Jehovah) will not be destroyed. “The Divine immutability secured the preservati...

  • 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

    1 Samuel 15:29; 2 Thessalonians 2:13; 2 Thessalonians 2:14; Exodus 3:14;...

  • 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...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    THE TITHE CHAPTER Malachi 3:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS When one reads the Book of Malachi he would think that the Holy Spirit was writing a message to the churches of the twentieth century, especially to...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    I change not — I have an unchangeable hatred to sin: and my long suffering also changeth not, therefore you are not consumed in your sins. Not consumed — God is the same in his wisdom to order the rew...

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