瑪拉基書 2:3 CUNPTS

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Malachi 2:3

Behold. Figure of speech Asterismos App-6 . corrupt = rebuke; as in Malachi 3:11 .Psalms 106:9 . Isaiah 17:13 . Hebrew gaar. Occurs fourteen times. Always rendered rebuke" except here, and Jeremiah 29:27 ("reproved"). dung = refuse; always sacrificial. Occurs seven times. feasts . Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Adjunct), App-6 , for the sacrifices offered at the feasts. it : i.e. the refuse. read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Malachi 2:3

"Behold, I will rebuke your seed, and will spread dung upon your faces, even the dung of your feasts; and ye shall be taken away with it."The idea here relates to the offal and refuse remaining from the butchered animals of the sacrifices. This repulsive figure is an apt description of the final removal of the Jewish priesthood in the overthrow of A.D. 70, in which event the very institution of animal sacrifice was forever terminated. The Law required that this type of animal refuse resulting... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Malachi 2:3

Malachi 2:3. Behold, I will corrupt your seed, &c.— Behold, I am about to take away the shoulder from you [namely, the right shoulder, which, by the law, was the peculiar portion of the priests]; and to throw the fat into your faces, even the fat which is offered in your sacrifices [meaning the fat which covered the intestines, and which was burnt upon the altar]; and it shall take you away with it. God threatens that he will not accept this gift, but will reject it, and throw it with... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Malachi 2:3

3. corrupt, c.—literally, "rebuke," answering to the opposite prophecy of blessing (Malachi 3:11), "I will rebuke the devourer." To rebuke the seed is to forbid its growing. your—literally, "for you" that is, to your hurt. dung of . . . solemn feasts—The dung in the maw of the victims sacrificed on the feast days; the maw was the perquisite of the priests (Malachi 3:11- :), which gives peculiar point to the threat here. You shall get the dung of the maw as your perquisite, instead of the maw.... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Malachi 2:1-9

E. Negative motivation: the results of disobedience 2:1-9Whereas the emphasis in Malachi’s argument shifts at this point somewhat from the sins of the priests (cf. Malachi 1:6; Malachi 2:1) to their possible fate, there is a continuing emphasis on their sins. In the preceding sections (Malachi 1:6-14) the cultic activity of the priests (i.e., offering sacrifices) was prominent, but in this one (Malachi 2:1-9) their teaching ministry is. As with the second hortatory discourse (Malachi 2:10 to... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Malachi 2:2-9

II. THE PRIESTS EXHORTED NOT TO DISHONOR THE LORD (THE THEOLOGICAL ANGLE) 1:2-2:9"Malachi’s first address is governed by the ironic exhortation in Malachi 1:10, ’Oh, that one of you would shut the temple doors.’ It is directed against the priests of the postexilic temple. Despite their responsibility under the covenant of Levi (cf. Malachi 2:4; Malachi 2:8) to be the Lord’s messengers of Torah (Malachi 2:7), they were dishonoring the Lord (Malachi 1:6), particularly in their careless attitude... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Malachi 2:3

Part of this curse involved rebuking the priests’ offspring (Heb. zera’, physical descendants) and spreading (Heb. zarah) refuse from their feasts on their faces (cf. Zechariah 3:3-4). The disgusting picture is of God taking the internal waste of the sacrificial animals and smearing it on the priests’ faces. Consequently both sacrifices and priests would have to be taken outside for disposal. This play on words communicates a double curse (cf. Malachi 2:2). The priests’ descendants would not... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Malachi 2:1-17

2The Degeneracy of the Priesthood1. A reminder to the priests that they are to blame for the laxity denounced in Malachi 1:13, Malachi 1:14. They are responsible for the offering of fit victims, which in some cases it was their duty to provide.3. I will corrupt your seed] RV ’I will rebuke the seed for your sake’; but the threat of a curse on the crops does not appear to be specially applicable to the priests. A very slight change in the Heb. which has been suggested, gives the admirable sense,... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Malachi 2:1-9

II.(1-9) The decree against the priests. read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Malachi 2:3

(3) I will corrupt your seed.—Better, I will destroy for you the seed—viz., of the crops. It must be remembered that because the people neglected to pay the tithes, the Levites were obliged to go and till the fields (Nehemiah 13:10). The LXX. for “seed” reads “corn.”Dung of your solemn feasts.—Or rather, of your festival sacrifices. (Comp. Exodus 23:18; Psalms 118:27.) The dung of the sacrificial animals was to be carried to an unclean place outside the camp, and burnt there. The priests,... read more

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Malachi 2:3

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Malachi 2:3

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Malachi 2:3

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Malachi 2:3

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Malachi 2:1-9

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Malachi 2:2-9

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Malachi 2:3

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Malachi 2:1-17

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Malachi 2:1-9

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Malachi 2:3

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