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Malachi 1:7

King James Version (KJV)

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Malachi 1:7

Verse 7 of 14

Scripture focus

Ye offer polluted bread upon mine altar; and ye say, Wherein have we polluted thee? In that ye say, The table of the LORD [is] contemptible.

Malachi 1:7 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Malachi 1:7

Theological / Devotional

Bread. Heb. lechem, sometimes used of food in general (see Gen. 3:19; 43:32; Ex. 2:20). “Bread” could not refer to the shewbread, for it was not offered on the altar. Possibly “bread” here refers to the flesh of the sacrificial victims (see Lev. 3:9-11, 15, 16). This is probably but one example of many that might be given of their carelessness in following the ritual law.

Wherein? See on v. 2. In their state of spiritual blindness the priests did not see that by offering “polluted [common] bread” they had dishonored the Lord.

In that ye say. They probably did not openly express contempt for the altar of the Lord by their words, but rather by their actions, namely, by bringing “polluted bread” to the altar. See p. 1122.

Table of the Lord. Evidently a reference to the altar of sacrifice.

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