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Presumption » Instances of » In reviling God
"You have spoken arrogant words against me," says the LORD. "Yet you ask, "What did we say against you?'
"A son honors his father and a servant his master. So if I'm a father, where is my honor? And if I'm a master, where is my respect?" says the LORD of the Heavenly Armies to you priests who are despising my name. "But you ask, "How have we despised your name?' By presenting defiled food on my altar. And you ask, "How have we defiled you?' By saying, "The Table of the LORD is contemptible.'
"But you are profaning my name by saying that the Table of the LORD is defiled and that its fruit and its food are contemptible.
"Ever since the time of your ancestors, you have turned away from my decrees and haven't kept them. Return to me and I'll return to you," says the LORD of the Heavenly Armies. "But you ask, "How will we return?' "Will a person rob God? Yet you are robbing me! But you ask, "How are we robbing you?' "By the tithe and the offering.
Sacrifices » The jews » Condemned for not treating with respect
Why, then, do all of you show contempt for my sacrifice and offering that I've commanded for my dwelling? And you honor your sons more than me in order to fatten yourselves from the best of all the offerings of my people Israel.'
"But you are profaning my name by saying that the Table of the LORD is defiled and that its fruit and its food are contemptible.
Tables » An article of furniture » Figurative » Of the altar
"But you are profaning my name by saying that the Table of the LORD is defiled and that its fruit and its food are contemptible.
By presenting defiled food on my altar. And you ask, "How have we defiled you?' By saying, "The Table of the LORD is contemptible.'