Malachi 1:13

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Ye said also, Behold, what a weariness is it! and ye have snuffed at it, saith the LORD of hosts; and ye brought that which was torn, and the lame, and the sick; thus ye brought an offering: should I accept this of your hand? saith the LORD.

Behold

Mark 14:4

Torn

Ezekiel 44:31

Should i accept

Matthew 6:1

General references

Leviticus 22:20

Bible References

Behold

Wherefore will ye trample upon my sacrifice and upon my gifts which I commanded to my habitation? and thou wilt honor thy sons above me to fatten yourselves from the chief of all the gifts of Israel my people.

And thou calledst me not, O Jacob; and thou overt weary of me, O Israel.

Saying, When will the month pass through, and we will sell grain? and the Sabbath, and we will open wheat to diminish the ephah, and to enlarge the shekel, and to make crooked the balance of deceit?

My people, what did I to thee? and in what did I weary thee? answer to me.

And there were some displeased in themselves, and saying, For what has been the loss of this perfumed oil?

Torn

Bringing polluted bread upon mine altar; and ye said, In what did we pollute thee? In your saying, The table of Jehovah it was despised.

A carcass or torn of wild beast, he shall not eat to be defiled with it: I Jehovah.

And when a blemish shall be in it, lame or blind, any evil blemish, thou shalt not sacrifice it to Jehovah thy God.

And saying, Ah, Lord Jehovah behold, my soul not being defiled: and a carcass and the torn in pieces I ate not from my youth and even till now; there came not flesh of uncleanness into my mouth.

Every carcass or torn from bind and from cattle, the priests shall not eat.

Should i accept

And this ye will do the second time, covering with tears the altar of Jehovah, with weepings and shrieks, from not any more looking to the gift, and to take delight from your hand.

When ye shall come to be seen before me who sought this from your hand to tread my enclosure.

In the smoothnesses of the torrent they thy portion, they thy lot; also to them thou didst pour out a libation, thou didst bring up a gift Shall I be comforted with these?

Stealing, killing, and committing adultery, and swearing for falsehood, and burning incense to Baal, and going after other gods which ye knew not;

I hated, I rejected your festivals, and I will not smell in your assemblies.

Say to all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and in the seventh, and this seventy years, fasting, fasted ye to me, me?

Attend ye not to do your justice before men, to be seen to them; and if otherwise ye have no reward from your Father which in the heavens.

General references

And every one which in it is a blemish ye shall not bring it: for it shall not be for acceptance for you.