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Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Malachi 3:8

Will a man rob God— "Pretend what you will to the reverence and fear of God, if you take away what is consecrated, according to the law of Moses, to the service of God and his temple, you do no better than rob God himself."

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See also Malachi 3:8 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Malachi 3:8. _WILL A MAN ROB GOD?_] Here is one point on which ye are guilty; ye withhold the _tithes_ and _offerings_ from the temple of God, so that the Divine worship is neglected....

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    SHALL A MAN ROB OR CHEAT - , defraud God? God answers question by question, but thereby drives it home to the sinner’s soul, and appeals to his conscience. The conscience is steeled, and answers again...

  • 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

    TITHES AND THE DIVINE BLESSING. The people cannot hope to win God's favour so long as they Withhold God's dues. When the tithes (Deuteronomy 12:17 f; Deuteronomy 14:22 *, Numbers 18:21 *,...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _ye_have _robbed_ Rather, ROB; lit. ARE ROBBING: it is still going on. _tithes_ By the Law of Moses (1) "the tenth of all produce, as well as of flocks and cattle, belongs to Jehovah and must be offer...

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _THE SIN OF INGRATITUDE -- MALACHI 3:6-12:_ The people did not see that they had any need to repent. Malachi moved to discuss in more details two specific sins of the Jews. The first was that they wer...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 1274 SIN A ROBBERY OF GOD Malachi 3:8. _Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me_. FIDELITY in Ministers, how unacceptable soever it may be to their hearers, is their indispensable duty....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    IF THE PEOPLE WILL RETURN IN DEVOTION TO GOD HE WILL YET BLESS THEM. Malachi 3:7-12 RV. From the days of your fathers ye have turned aside from mine ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto me...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the LORD of hosts. But ye said, Wherein shall we re...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    3 The Speedy Judgment 1. This v. is closely connected with the preceding. It is the answer to the question, 'Where is the God of judgment?' The messenger is evidently a prophet or a succession of pro...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    MY *MESSENGER MALACHI _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ CHAPTER 3 V1 ‘Look at me! I will send my *messenger. He will prepare the way for me. Then, suddenly, the *Lord that you are looking for will come to his...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    REBUKE OF INFIDELITY. THE ADVENT OF THE LORD FORETOLD (MALACHI 2:17 TO MALACHI 3:18). (17) A new section of the prophecy begins with this verse. The prophet now directs his reproofs against the people...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    ROBBED ME. — Because the tithes are said to be offered to Jehovah, and then He gives them to the Levites in place of an inheritance (Numbers 18:24). IN TITHES AND OFFERINGS. — See Notes on Exodus 23:1...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    הֲ יִקְבַּ֨ע אָדָ֜ם אֱלֹהִ֗ים כִּ֤י אַתֶּם֙ ק

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    6. REPENTANCE BY TITHES Malachi 3:6 This section ought perhaps to follow on to the preceding. Those whom it blames for not paying the Temple tithes may be the skeptics addressed in the previous secti...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    Malachi 2:1; Malachi 3:1; Malachi 4:1 PROPHECY WITHIN THE LAW "MALACHI" 1-4 BENEATH this title we may gather all the eight sections of the Book of "Malachi." They contain many things of perennial i...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    A PURGING FROM EVIL Malachi 3:1-12 The opening verses of this chapter stir the heart like the call of a trumpet. We remember how literally they were fulfilled in the presentation of our Lord in the T...

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

    The last division of the Book contains the prophet's announcement of the coming of Messiah. It falls into three sections, one dealing with the coming One, one dealing with the Coming Day, and one utte...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Will a (h) man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In (i) tithes and offerings. (h) There are none of the heathen so barbarous, that will defraud their gods of th...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Afflict. Literally, "pierce." Septuagint, "supplant," (Haydock) or kick at, 1 Kings ii. 29. But the term applied to Heli is different. Here it signifies to nail or irritate. (Calmet) --- Tithes: the...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Reader! look at those charges spiritually, and then ask, in what doth the robbery of God now consist? Is it not in denying, or disbelieving his covenant relations, and word, and oath, and promises? Is...

  • 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

    _Will a man defraud the gods? _Some give this version, “Will a man defraud God?” But it is strained and remote from the Prophet’s design; and they pervert the meaning. For I do not see what can be eli...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 1 THROUGH 4. The prophecy of Malachi deals with the people brought back from the captivity of Babylon, and is most important as shewing the moral condition of...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    WILL A MAN ROB GOD?.... Or "the gods"; the false gods, the idols of the Gentiles; the Heathens will not do that, accounting sacrilege a great sin, and yet this the Jews were guilty of: or "the judges...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings. Ver. 8. _Will a man rob God?_] Adam pillage Elohim? frail weak man seek to supplant (so th...

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

    _Will a man rob God_ Grotius reads, “Would any one dare to rob his judges as ye have robbed me?” the word rendered _God_ sometimes meaning judges or magistrates. Some others render the clause, _Is it...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Will a man rob God, defraud Him? Is not the very idea preposterous and revolting?. YET YE HAVE ROBBED ME, actually trying to defraud Jehovah of the service which He rightly expected. BUT YE SAY, WHERE...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE PEOPLE REBUKED...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    7-12 The men of that generation turned away from God, they had not kept his ordinances. God gives them a gracious call. But they said, Wherein shall we return? God notices what returns our hearts mak...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    WILL A MAN ROB GOD? among the many deviations from God's law (which they do not, because they will not, see) the prophet chargeth them with this kind of sacrilegious theft; they had detained his tithe...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Malachi 3:8 man H120 rob H6906 (H8799) God H430 robbed H6906 (H8802) say H559 (H8804) robbed...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    YHWH BRINGS A FURTHER CHARGE AGAINST HIS PEOPLE. THEY HAVE FAILED IN THEIR OFFERING OF TITHES (MALACHI 3:7). There were no doubt some who could still feel pretty pleased with themselves. They could in...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Malachi 3:8 I. (1) Heaven is not the only domain of God's vast property. All here on earth belongs to Him as well. If all belongs to God, then comes in the liability to commit robbery against Him. For...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Malachi 3:1. _Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me:_ The name Malachi means «my messenger.» The reference here is, of course, to John the Baptist, who was to prepa...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Mission of John the Baptist, and Christ's first advent foretold. Israel exhorted to return to God. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Malachi, John the Baptist. CONCLUSION: Those who deny God His pa...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Malachi 3:1. _Behold, I send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me._ John the baptist, as our Saviour himself expounds this passage. Matthew 11:7. _The Lord whom ye seek,_ and for whom...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    MALACHI 3:6 Fifth Dispute: How Shall We Repent? Can a Man Rob God? Malachi returns to the subject of Israel’s offerings, which he first addressed in the second dispute (Malachi 1:6). When Israe

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    MALACHI—NOTE ON MALACHI 3:8 YOU ARE ROBBING ME. The people were not giving to God the offerings that rightly belonged to him. ⇐...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES. Malachi 3:6. I Jehovah] am unchangeable in gifts and calling, therefore sons of JACOB] (contrasted with Jehovah) will not be destroyed. “The Divine immutability secured the preservati...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION MALACHI 3:1 BEHOLD, I WILL SEND (_I send_) MY MESSENGER. God answers that he is coming to show himself the God of judgment and justice. Are they ready to meet him and to bear his sentence?...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now the promise of the coming of John the Baptist as the forerunner to Jesus Christ. Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenl...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Joshua 7:11; Leviticus 27:2; Leviticus 5:15; Leviticus 5:16; Luke 20:2

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    VITAL QUESTIONS Malachi 1:1; Malachi 2:1; Malachi 3:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The Book of Malachi presents questions asked by God. In response, instead of a direct answer, the chosen people, Israel, ask...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    THE TITHE CHAPTER Malachi 3:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS When one reads the Book of Malachi he would think that the Holy Spirit was writing a message to the churches of the twentieth century, especially to...

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