Internet Verse Search Commentaries Word Analysis ITL - draft

Malachi 1:10

Context
NETBible

“I wish that one of you would close the temple doors, 1  so that you no longer would light useless fires on my altar. I am not pleased with you,” says the Lord who rules over all, “and I will no longer accept an offering from you.

XREF

Job 1:9-11; Isa 1:11-15; Isa 56:11,12; Jer 6:13; Jer 6:20; Jer 8:10; Am 5:21-24; Mic 3:11; Joh 10:12; 1Co 9:13; Php 2:21; Heb 10:38; 1Pe 5:2

NET © Notes

sn The rhetorical language suggests that as long as the priesthood and people remain disobedient, the temple doors may as well be closed because God is not “at home” to receive them or their worship there.



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