‏ Deuteronomy 15:21

‏ Malachi 1:8

8. Your earthly ruler would feel insulted, if offered by you the offering with which ye put off God (see Le 22:22, 24).

is it not evil?--Maurer translates, "There is no evil," in your opinion, in such an offering; it is quite good enough for such a purpose.

‏ Malachi 1:13-14

13. what a weariness is it!--Ye regard God's service as irksome, and therefore try to get it over by presenting the most worthless offerings. Compare Mi 6:3, where God challenges His people to show wherein is the "weariness" or hardship of His service. Also Is 43:22-24, wherein He shows that it is they who have "wearied" Him, not He who has wearied them.

snuffed at--despised.

it--the table of the Lord, and the meat on it (Mal 1:12).

torn--namely, by beasts, which it was not lawful to eat, much less to offer (Ex 22:31).

thus ... offering--Hebrew, mincha; the unbloody offering of flour, &c. Though this may have been of ordinary ingredients, yet the sacrifices of blemished animals accompanying it rendered it unacceptable.

14. deceiver--hypocrite. Not poverty, but avarice was the cause of their mean offerings.

male--required by law (Le 1:3, 10).

great King--(Psa 48:2; Mt 5:35).

my name ... dreadful among ... heathen--Even the heathen dread Me because of My judgments; what a reproach this is to you, My people, who fear Me not (Mal 1:6)! Also it may be translated, "shall be feared among," &c. agreeing with the prophecy of the call of the Gentiles (Mal 1:11).
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