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Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Malachi 1:6

O priests — Had undutifulness been found among the ignorant people, it might have been a little excusable. But you, O priests, whose business is to know me, have like Eli's sons despised me yourselves, and made others do so too.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Malachi 1:6. _A SON HONOURETH HIS FATHER_] I am your _Father _- where, then, is my honour? Where your filial obedience? _IF I_ BE _A MASTER, WHERE_ IS _MY FEAR?_] The respect due to me....

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    A SON HONORETH HIS FATHER, AND A SLAVE HIS LORD - Having spoken of the love of God, he turns to the thanklessness of man. God appeals to the first feelings of the human heart, the relation of parent a...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    THE REBUKE OF THE PRIESTS CHAPTER 1:6-2:9 The priests, the religious leaders of the people, are described first in their evil ways, and rebuked. But the rebuke includes the entire people, for it is t...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    MALACHI 1:6 TO MALACHI 2:16. ISRAEL'S DISREGARD OF THIS LOVE. This section falls into two parts, one dealing with the priesthood (Malachi 1:6 to Malachi 2:9),

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    A SON, &c. Ref to Pentateuch (Exodus 20:12), App-92. Note the Figure of speech _Anacoenosis_ (App-6). An appeal to opponents as having. common interest. Compare Isaiah 5:4.Luke 11:19;...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Malachi 1:6 to Malachi 3:6. Rebuke and threatened punishment of the Priests and People Ch. Malachi 1:6-14. Rebuke of the Priests _O priests_ On them first the rebuke justly falls, because they were c...

  • Charles Box Commentaries

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  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

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  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    A SON HONOURETH HIS FATHER, &C.— "Those degrees of respect which were due to human authority, are in a more eminent manner to be paid to the supreme Lord of all. So the priests, who are dedicated to m...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    ISRAEL IS UNFAITHFUL. Malachi 1:6 to Malachi 2:9 RV. A son honoreth his father, and a servant his master; if then I am a father, whereis mine honor? and if I am a master, where is my fear? saith Jehov...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    A son honoureth his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is mine honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear? saith the LORD of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    בֵּ֛ן יְכַבֵּ֥ד אָ֖ב וְ עֶ֣בֶד אֲדֹנָ֑יו וְ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    After the introductory word, which really constitutes the title page of the prophecy, the message begins almost abruptly with the tender and sensitive word of Jehovah to His people, "I have loved you....

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    A son honoureth [his] father, and a servant his master: if then I [be] a father, where [is] mine honour? and if I [be] a master, where [is] my fear? saith the LORD of hosts unto you, (d) O priests, th...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Father. God sometimes took this title, Exodus iv. 32. But he was oftener represented as a master; and the old law was a law of fear. (Calmet) --- Servant et mertuunt jus. (Juvenal xiv.)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    These are very strong expressions of expostulation. God appeals to the common principles and laws of nature. Children and servants do reverence to them that have the rule over them. How much more is d...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    Lectures on the Minor Prophets. W. Kelly. The Lord has not been pleased to give us much express information of the prophets in general, with the exception of Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Daniel, and in a me...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    God as already proved that he had by many favors been a Father to the Jews. They must have felt that he had indeed bound them to himself, provided they possessed any religion or gratitude. He now then...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

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  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    A SON HONOURETH [HIS] FATHER, AND A SERVANT HIS MASTER,.... Or, "will honour", or "should honour"; it is their duty to do so, both according to the laws of God and man; and so the Targum, "lo concern...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    A son honoureth [his] father, and a servant his master: if then I [be] a father, where [is] mine honour? and if I [be] a master, where [is] my fear? saith the LORD of hosts unto you, O priests, that d...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    A REBUKE OF THE PRIESTS...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

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  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

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  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

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  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Scofield's Bible Commentary

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  • Summarized Bible Commentary

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  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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  • The Biblical Illustrator

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  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

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  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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  • The Pulpit Commentaries

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  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now let's turn to Malachi, the final word of God in the Old Testament period. God's final message before the coming of Jesus Christ. Who Malachi was, where he came from, we know nothing. Some believe...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Peter 1:17; 1 Peter 2:17; 1 Samuel 2:28; 1 Timothy 6:1; 1 Timothy

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

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