Malachi 1:7 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁷Ye 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 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Malachi 1:12
But ye have profaned it, in that ye say, The table of the LORD is polluted; and the fruit thereof, even his meat, is contemptible.
1 Corinthians 11:27-32
Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. …
1 Corinthians 10:21
Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of devils.
Malachi 1:8
And if ye offer the blind for sacrifice, is it not evil? and if ye offer the lame and sick, is it not evil? offer it now unto thy governor; will he be pleased with thee, or accept thy person? saith the LORD of hosts.
1 Samuel 2:15-17
Also before they burnt the fat, the priest's servant came, and said to the man that sacrificed, Give flesh to roast for the priest; for he will not have sodden flesh of thee, but raw. …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 6-14)

The prophet is here, by a special commission, calling the priests to account, though they were themselves appointed judges, to call the people to an account. Let the rulers in the house of God know that there is one above them, who will reckon with them for their mal-administrations. Thus saith the Lord of hosts to you, O priests! Mal. 1:6. God will have a saying to unfaithful ministers; and it co…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 7)

7. ye offer, &c.--God’s answer to their challenge (Mal 1:6), “Wherein have we despised?” polluted bread--namely, blemished sacrifices (Mal 1:8, 13, 14; De 15:21). So “the bread of thy God” is used for “sacrifices to God” (Le 21:8). polluted thee--that is, offered to thee “polluted bread.” table of the Lord--that is, the altar (Eze 41:22) (not the table of showbread). Just as the sacrificial flesh…