Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
ye offer, etc.--God's answer to their challenge (Malachi 1:6), "Wherein have we despised?"
polluted bread--namely, blemished sacrifices (Malachi 1:8, Malachi 1:13-14; Deuteronomy 15:21). So "the bread of thy God" is used for "sacrifices to God" (Leviticus 21:8).
polluted thee--that is, offered to thee "polluted bread."
table of the Lord--that is, the altar (Ezekiel 41:22) (not the table of showbread). Just as the sacrificial flesh is called "bread."
contemptible-- (Malachi 1:12-13). Ye sanction the niggardly and blemished offerings of the people on the altar, to gain favor with them. Darius, and probably his successors, had liberally supplied them with victims for sacrifice, yet they presented none but the worst. A cheap religion, costing little, is rejected by God, and so is worth nothing. It costs more than it is worth, for it is worth nothing, and so proves really dear. God despises not the widow's mite, but he does despise the miser's mite [MOORE].
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Micah 1:5
Malachi 1:1
Malachi 1:12
Malachi 3:3
1 Corinthians 10:21
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