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Malachi 3:10-12

MALACHI—NOTE ON Malachi 3:10 God promises that if his people faithfully present their full tithe, then the desperately needed rain will come (v. Malachi 3:10). Crop failure will cease (v. Malachi 3:11), and the promise to Abraham that all nations will call you blessed (v. Malachi 3:12; Psalms 72:17) will be fulfilled. By saying, “put me to the test,” God challenges the people to give the tithe they owe him and then watch to see if he will keep his promise. God promises to meet all their needs, but not necessarily all their wishes. This is not a promise of wealth in return for obedience.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

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  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    BRING THE WHOLE TITHES - , not a part only, keeping back more or less, and, as he had said, defrauding God, offering, like Ananias, apart, as if it had been the whole; into the treasury, where they we...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    REBUKE FOR DEFRAUDING THE LORD CHAPTER 3:7-15 Another rebuke is administered. They were alway a stiff-necked people, never obedient to His ordinances. His gracious call to return unto Him, and the pr...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

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  • Charles Box Commentaries

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  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

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  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    3:10 it. (i-48) Or 'a blessing, to superabundance.'...

  • 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

    הָבִ֨יאוּ אֶת ־כָּל ־הַֽ מַּעֲשֵׂ֜ר אֶל ־בֵּ֣

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

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  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

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  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

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  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

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  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

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  • John Darby's Synopsis

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  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

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  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

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  • 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

    THE PEOPLE REBUKED...

  • 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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  • Sermon Bible Commentary

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  • Spurgeon'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 Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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  • The Pulpit Commentaries

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  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

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  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

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  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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