Thematic Bible
Malachi 1:1 (show verse)
An oracle: The word of the Lord to Israel through Malachi.
Malachi 1:2 (show verse)
“I have loved you,” says the Lord.
But you ask: “How have You loved us?”
“Wasn’t Esau Jacob’s brother?” This is the Lord’s declaration. “Even so, I loved Jacob,
But you ask: “How have You loved us?”
“Wasn’t Esau Jacob’s brother?”
Malachi 1:3 (show verse)
but I hated Esau. I turned his mountains into a wasteland, and gave his inheritance to the desert jackals.”
Malachi 1:4 (show verse)
Though Edom says: “We have been devastated, but we will rebuild the ruins,” the Lord of Hosts says this: “They may build, but I will demolish. They will be called a wicked country and the people the Lord has cursed forever.
No Themes for this verse.
Malachi 1:5 (show verse)
Your own eyes will see this, and you yourselves will say, ‘The Lord is great, even beyond the borders of Israel.’
No Themes for this verse.
Malachi 1:6 (show verse)
“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. But if I am a father, where is My honor? And if I am a master, where is your fear of Me? says Yahweh of Hosts to you priests, who despise My name.”
Yet you ask: “How have we despised Your name?”
Yet you ask: “How have we despised Your name?”
Malachi 1:7 (show verse)
“By presenting defiled food on My altar.”
You ask: “How have we defiled You?”
When you say: “The Lord’s table is contemptible.”
You ask: “How have we defiled You?”
When you say: “The Lord’s table is contemptible.”
Altar of burnt-offering » Nothing polluted or defective to be offered on
Offerings » Whose offering the lord will not accept
Prayer, answers to » Denied to those who » Offer unworthy service to God
Presumption » Instances of » In reviling God
Tables » An article of furniture » Figurative » Of the altar
Offerings » Whose offering the lord will not accept
Prayer, answers to » Denied to those who » Offer unworthy service to God
Presumption » Instances of » In reviling God
Tables » An article of furniture » Figurative » Of the altar
Malachi 1:8 (show verse)
“When you present a blind animal for sacrifice, is it not wrong? And when you present a lame or sick animal, is it not wrong? Bring it to your governor! Would he be pleased with you or show you favor?” asks the Lord of Hosts.
Altar of burnt-offering » Nothing polluted or defective to be offered on
Blindness » Of animals » Sacrifice
Offerings » Whose offering the lord will not accept
Offerings » The jews often » Gave the worst they had as
Prayer, answers to » Denied to those who » Offer unworthy service to God
Presents » When small or defective, refused
Sacrifices » Required to be perfect and without blemish
Blindness » Of animals » Sacrifice
Offerings » Whose offering the lord will not accept
Offerings » The jews often » Gave the worst they had as
Prayer, answers to » Denied to those who » Offer unworthy service to God
Presents » When small or defective, refused
Sacrifices » Required to be perfect and without blemish
Malachi 1:9 (show verse)
“And now ask for God’s favor. Will He be gracious to us? Since this has come from your hands, will He show any of you favor?” asks the Lord of Hosts.
Malachi 1:10 (show verse)
“I wish one of you would shut the temple doors, so you would no longer kindle a useless fire on My altar! I am not pleased with you,” says the Lord of Hosts, “and I will accept no offering from your hands.
Malachi 1:11 (show verse)
“For My name will be great among the nations, from the rising of the sun to its setting. Incense and pure offerings will be presented in My name in every place because My name will be great among the nations,” says Yahweh of Hosts.
Malachi 1:12 (show verse)
But you are profaning it when you say: “The Lord’s table is defiled, and its product, its food, is contemptible.”
Malachi 1:13 (show verse)
You also say: “Look, what a nuisance!” “And you scorn it,” says the Lord of Hosts. “You bring stolen, lame, or sick animals. You bring this as an offering! Am I to accept that from your hands?” asks the Lord.
Malachi 1:14 (show verse)
“The deceiver is cursed who has an acceptable male in his flock and makes a vow but sacrifices a defective animal to the Lord. For I am a great King,” says Yahweh of Hosts, “and My name will be feared among the nations.
Deception » Deceivers
Dedication » Must be without blemish
Gentiles/heathen » What is dreadful among the heathen
Offerings » Required to be » The best of their kind
Sacrifices » Required to be perfect and without blemish
Sacrifices » The jews » Condemned for bringing defective and blemished
Vows » Of things corrupt or blemished an insult to God
Dedication » Must be without blemish
Gentiles/heathen » What is dreadful among the heathen
Offerings » Required to be » The best of their kind
Sacrifices » Required to be perfect and without blemish
Sacrifices » The jews » Condemned for bringing defective and blemished
Vows » Of things corrupt or blemished an insult to God