Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Presumption » Instances of » In reviling God
Your words have prevailed against me, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, What have we spoken against thee?
The son honours his father and the slave his master; if then I am a father, where is my honour? and if I am a master, where is my fear? said the LORD of the hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, In what have we despised thy name? Ye offer polluted bread upon my altar; and ye say, In what have we polluted thee? In that ye say, We die of hunger in the service of the LORD.
And ye have profaned it when ye say, We die of hunger at the service of the LORD and when ye speak that his food is contemptible.
Even from the days of your fathers, ye had departed from my ordinances and had never kept them. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, said the LORD of the hosts. But ye said, In what shall we return? Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, In what have we robbed thee? In the tithes and the offerings.
Sacrifices » The jews » Condemned for not treating with respect
Why do ye trample my sacrifices and my offerings which I have commanded to be offered in my tabernacle and honor thy sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the chiefest of all the offerings of Israel my people?
And ye have profaned it when ye say, We die of hunger at the service of the LORD and when ye speak that his food is contemptible.
Tables » An article of furniture » Figurative » Of the altar
And ye have profaned it when ye say, We die of hunger at the service of the LORD and when ye speak that his food is contemptible.
Ye offer polluted bread upon my altar; and ye say, In what have we polluted thee? In that ye say, We die of hunger in the service of the LORD.