Malachi 3:10 (BSB)
Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in My house. Test Me in this,” says the LORD of Hosts. “See if I will not open the windows of heaven and pour out for you blessing without measure.
From Malachi 3. Also in the ESV.
Commentary on Malachi 3:10
- John Calvin (Reformed), Calvin's Commentaries on Malachi 3:1-18: CHAPTER 3 Malachi 3:1 1. Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, who ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts. 1.
- Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Malachi 3:7-12: We have here God's controversy with the men of that generation, for deserting his service and robbing him - wicked servants indeed, that not only run away from their Master, but run away with their Master's goods. I. They had run away from their Master, and quitted the work he gave them to do (Mal 3:7): You have gone away from my ordinances and have not kept them.
- John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Malachi 3:10: Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse,.... Or "treasury" (e); for there were places in the temple where the tithe was put, and from thence distributed to the priests and Levites, for the support of their families, as they wanted.
- Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Malachi 3:10: (Pro 3:9-10). storehouse-- (Ch2 31:11, Margin; compare Ch1 26:20; Neh 10:38; Neh 13:5, Neh 13:12). prove me . . . herewith--with this; by doing so. Test Me whether I will keep My promise of blessing you, on condition of your doing your part (Ch2 31:10). pour . . . out--literally, "empty out": image from a vessel completely emptied of its contents: no blessing being kept back.