Malachi 3:9
What meaning of the malachi 3:9 in the Bible?
What does Malachi 3:9 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation."
What does Malachi 3:9 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation."
Verse Malachi 3:9. _YE_ ARE _CURSED WITH A CURSE_] The whole nation is under my displeasure. The curse of God is upon you....
YE HAVE BEEN CURSED WITH THE CURSE - (not “with a curse”). The curse threatened had come upon them: but, as fore-supposed in Leviticus by the repeated burden, “If ye still walk contrary to Me,” they h...
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...
TITHES AND THE DIVINE BLESSING. The people cannot hope to win God's favour so long as they Withhold God's dues. When the tithes (Deuteronomy 12:17 f; Deuteronomy 14:22 *, Numbers 18:21 *, Leviticus 27...
_a curse_ Rather, THE CURSE. The threatened curse has already fallen upon you. See ch. Malachi 2:2 with Malachi 3:11. have _robbed_ Rather ROB, as in Malachi 3:8. The pronouns in the Hebrew are emph...
_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...
YE ARE CURSED WITH A CURSE— _Ye have been under a curse through want, because,_ &c. Houbigant....
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...
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 re...
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 pr...
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...
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 peopl...
בַּ † מְּאֵרָה֙ אַתֶּ֣ם נֵֽאָרִ֔ים וְ אֹתִ֖י אַתֶּ֣ם קֹבְעִ֑ים הַ גֹּ֖וי כֻּלֹּֽו׃...
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...
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...
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...
_Want. Hebrew, "malediction." St. Jerome specifies the kind. (Calmet) --- Septuagint, "and you obstinately turn away your eyes, and supplant me," &c. (Haydock)_...
Reader! look at those charges spiritually, and then ask, in what doth the robbery of God now consist? Is it not in denying, or disbelieving his covenant relations, and word, and oath, and promises? Is...
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 m...
Malachi pursues the same subject; for he answers the Jews in the name of God — that they unjustly complained of his rigour as being immoderate, since they themselves were the cause of all their evils....
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 o...
YE [ARE] CURSED WITH A CURSE,.... Or "with penury", as the Vulgate Latin version; which, though not a proper rendering of the word, is the meaning of the curse they were cursed with; rain was withheld...
Ye [are] cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, [even] this whole nation. Ver. 9. _Ye are cursed with a curse_] Vulgate: Ye are cursed with penury and scarcity of victuals, according to Deuteron...
_Will a man rob God_ Grotius reads, “Would any one dare to rob his judges as ye have robbed me?” the word rendered _God_ sometimes meaning judges or magistrates. Some others render the clause, _Is it...
THE PEOPLE REBUKED...
7-12 The men of that generation turned away from God, they had not kept his ordinances. God gives them a gracious call. But they said, Wherein shall we return? God notices what returns our hearts make...
YE, O priests, your sin, your sacrilege, of which you are guilty, hath provoked me. ARE CURSED WITH A CURSE; are greatly cursed, and are likely still to be cursed, the curse shall continue whilst you...
Malachi 3:9 cursed H779 (H8737) curse H3994 robbed H6906 (H8802) nation H1471 Malachi 2:2; Deuteronomy 28:15-19; Joshua 7:12-13, Joshua 22:20; Isaiah 43:28;...
YHWH BRINGS A FURTHER CHARGE AGAINST HIS PEOPLE. THEY HAVE FAILED IN THEIR OFFERING OF TITHES (MALACHI 3:7). There were no doubt some who could still feel pretty pleased with themselves. They could in...
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...
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...
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...
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 retur...
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...
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?...
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 sudden...
Deuteronomy 28:15; Haggai 1:6; Haggai 2:14; Isaiah 43:28; Joshua 22:20; Joshua 7:12; Joshua 7:13; Malachi 2:2...
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...
Cursed with a curse — Are greatly cursed....