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Maleakhi 3:8
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Bolehkah manusia menipu Allah? Maka kamu hendak menipu Aku! Jikalau katamu: Dengan apa gerangan kami hendak menipu Engkau? Yaitu dengan segala perpuluhan dan persembahan tatangan!
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
a man: Psalms 29:2, Proverbs 3:9, Proverbs 3:10, Matthew 22:21, Mark 12:17, Luke 20:25, Romans 13:7
In: Malachi 1:8, Malachi 1:13, Leviticus 5:15, Leviticus 5:16, Leviticus 27:2-34, Numbers 18:21-32, Joshua 7:11, Nehemiah 13:4-14, Romans 2:22
Reciprocal: Genesis 14:20 - tithes Leviticus 5:19 - trespassed Leviticus 19:25 - General Leviticus 27:30 - General Numbers 5:9 - offering Numbers 18:24 - General Deuteronomy 12:6 - tithes 2 Chronicles 31:4 - the portion Nehemiah 5:3 - because Nehemiah 10:35 - General Nehemiah 10:37 - and the tithes Nehemiah 12:47 - gave Nehemiah 13:10 - the portions Nehemiah 13:11 - Why is the house Psalms 32:5 - iniquity Proverbs 20:25 - a snare Isaiah 43:23 - hast not Ezekiel 18:10 - that is Ezekiel 24:19 - General Ezekiel 48:14 - for Haggai 1:9 - Ye looked Haggai 2:15 - consider Zechariah 5:3 - every one Malachi 1:2 - Wherein Malachi 1:6 - And ye Malachi 2:14 - Wherefore Malachi 2:17 - Wherein Malachi 3:13 - What Mark 10:20 - General Luke 11:42 - and not Luke 18:12 - I give Acts 5:2 - kept 1 Corinthians 9:11 - sown
Cross-References
And the serpent was suttiller then euery beast of the fielde which ye lord God hadde made, and he sayde vnto the woman: yea, hath God saide, ye shall not eate of euery tree of the garden?
And the woman sayde vnto the serpent: We eate of ye fruite of the trees of the garden.
But as for the fruite of the tree which is in the myddes of the garden, God hath sayde, ye shall not eate of it, neither shal ye touche of it, lest peraduenture ye dye.
And the Lorde called Adam, & sayde vnto hym: where art thou?
Which sayde: I hearde thy voyce in the garden, and was afrayde because I was naked, and hyd my selfe.
And Adam said: The woman whom thou gauest [to be] with me, she gaue me of the tree, and I dyd eate.
Unto Adam also and to his wyfe dyd the Lorde God make garments of skynnes, and he put them on.
And the Lorde God sayde: Beholde, the man is become as one of vs, in knowing good and euyll: And now lest peraduenture he put foorth his hande, and take also of the tree of lyfe and eate, and lyue for euer.
Dyd euer any people heare the voyce of God speakyng out of the middes of a fire, as thou hast hearde, and yet lyued?
Nowe therfore why shoulde we dye? that this great fire shoulde consume vs: If we heare the voyce of the Lord our God any more, we shall dye:
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Will a man rob God?.... Or "the gods"; the false gods, the idols of the Gentiles; the Heathens will not do that, accounting sacrilege a great sin, and yet this the Jews were guilty of: or "the judges" c, as the Targum; civil magistrates; will any dare to defraud them of their due? see Malachi 1:8.
Yet ye have robbed me; keeping back from the priests and Levites, his ministers, what was due to them; and which, being no other than a spoiling or robbing of them, might be interpreted a robbing of God:
But ye say, wherein have we robbed thee? as not being conscious of any such evil; or, however, impudently standing in it, that they were not guilty: to which is returned the answer,
In tithes and offerings; that is, they robbed God in not giving the tithes, and not offering sacrifices, according as the law required: but it may be objected, that the Jews in Christ's time did pay tithes, even of all things; yea, of more than the law required, Matthew 23:23 to which it may be replied, that though they gave tithes, yet it was
בעין רעה, "with an evil eye", as Aben Ezra says; grudgingly, and not cheerfully, and with an evil intention; not to show their gratitude to God, and their acknowledgment of him as their Lord, from whom they had their all, but in order to merit at his hands; besides, our Lord suggests that they did not give to God the things that were God's, Matthew 22:21 and the apostle charges them with being guilty of sacrilege, Romans 2:22 and, moreover, the priests might not give it to the Levites, as they ought; and which is what they are charged with in Nehemiah 13:10 and Grotius says that they were guilty of this before the destruction by Vespasian, as appears by Josephus.
c אלהים "deos, vel judices", Calvin, Drusius, Grotius.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Shall a man rob or cheat - , defraud God? God answers question by question, but thereby drives it home to the sinner’s soul, and appeals to his conscience. The conscience is steeled, and answers again, “In what?” God specifies two things only, obvious, patent, which, as being material things, they could not deny. “In tithes and offerings.” The offerings included several classes of dues to God:
(a) the first fruits ;
(b) the annual half-shekel Exodus 30:13-15;
(c) the offerings made for the tabernacle Exodus 25:2-3; Exodus 35:5, Exodus 35:21, Exodus 35:24; Exodus 36:3, Exodus 36:6 and the second temple Ezra 8:25 at its first erection; it is used of ordinary offerings;
(d) of the tithes of their own tithes, which the Levites paid to the priests Numbers 18:26, Numbers 18:28-29;
(e) of the portions of the sacrifice which accrued to the priests Leviticus 7:14.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Malachi 3:8. Will a man rob God? — Here is one point on which ye are guilty; ye withhold the tithes and offerings from the temple of God, so that the Divine worship is neglected.
