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Malachi 1

Mal. 1:7 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Ye ηoffer
nagash (Hebrew #5066)
to be or come (causatively, bring) near (for any purpose); euphemistically, to lie with a woman; as an enemy, to attack; relig. to worship; causatively, to present; figuratively, to adduce an argument; by reversal, to stand back
KJV usage: (make to) approach (nigh), bring (forth, hither, near), (cause to) come (hither, near, nigh), give place, go hard (up), (be, draw, go) near (nigh), offer, overtake, present, put, stand.
Pronounce: naw-gash'
Origin: a primitive root
polluted
ga'al (Hebrew #1351)
to soil or (figuratively) desecrate
KJV usage: defile, pollute, stain.
Pronounce: gaw-al'
Origin: a primitive root, (rather identified with 1350, through the idea of freeing, i.e. repudiating)
bread
lechem (Hebrew #3899)
food (for man or beast), especially bread, or grain (for making it)
KJV usage: ((shew-))bread, X eat, food, fruit, loaf, meat, victuals. See also 1036.
Pronounce: lekh'-em
Origin: from 3898
upon mine altar
mizbeach (Hebrew #4196)
an altar
KJV usage: altar.
Pronounce: miz-bay'-akh
Origin: from 2076
; and ye say
'amar (Hebrew #559)
to say (used with great latitude)
KJV usage: answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, + (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, X desire, determine, X expressly, X indeed, X intend, name, X plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), X still, X suppose, talk, tell, term, X that is, X think, use (speech), utter, X verily, X yet.
Pronounce: aw-mar'
Origin: a primitive root
, Wherein have we polluted
ga'al (Hebrew #1351)
to soil or (figuratively) desecrate
KJV usage: defile, pollute, stain.
Pronounce: gaw-al'
Origin: a primitive root, (rather identified with 1350, through the idea of freeing, i.e. repudiating)
thee? In that ye say
'amar (Hebrew #559)
to say (used with great latitude)
KJV usage: answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, + (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, X desire, determine, X expressly, X indeed, X intend, name, X plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), X still, X suppose, talk, tell, term, X that is, X think, use (speech), utter, X verily, X yet.
Pronounce: aw-mar'
Origin: a primitive root
, Thek table
shulchan (Hebrew #7979)
a table (as spread out); by implication, a meal
KJV usage: table.
Pronounce: shool-khawn'
Origin: from 7971
of the Lord
Yhovah (Hebrew #3068)
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
KJV usage: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare 3050, 3069.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vaw'
Origin: from 1961
is contemptible
bazah (Hebrew #959)
to disesteem
KJV usage: despise, disdain, contemn(-ptible), + think to scorn, vile person.
Pronounce: baw-zaw'
Origin: a primitive root
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η
or, bring unto.
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1 Cor. 10:21• 21Ye cannot drink the Lord's cup, and the cup of demons: ye cannot partake of the Lord's table, and of the table of demons. (1 Cor. 10:21)

More on:

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Altar,
Bread,
Offering; Offering Up,
Table

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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Ye offer, etc.
or, Bring unto my, etc.
polluted.
LEV 2:11, 21:6;
Deut. 15:21• 21But if there be a defect therein, if it be lame, or blind, or have any evil defect, thou shalt not sacrifice it to Jehovah thy God. (Deut. 15:21)
The table.
Mal. 1:12• 12But ye profane it, in that ye say, The table of the Lord is polluted; and the fruit thereof, his food, is contemptible. (Mal. 1:12)
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1 Sam. 2:15‑17• 15Even before they burned the fat, the priest's servant came, and said to the man that sacrificed, Give flesh to roast for the priest, and he will not accept sodden flesh of thee, but raw.
 16If the man said to him, They will immediately burn the fat entire, then take as thy soul desires; he would say to him, No, but thou shalt give it now; and if not, I will take it by force.
 17And the sin of the young men was very great before Jehovah, for men despised the offering of Jehovah. (1 Sam. 2:15‑17)
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Ezek. 41:22• 22The altar was of wood, three cubits high, and its length two cubits; and its corners, and its length, and its walls were of wood. And he said unto me, This is the table which is before Jehovah. (Ezek. 41:22)
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1 Cor. 10:21• 21Ye cannot drink the Lord's cup, and the cup of demons: ye cannot partake of the Lord's table, and of the table of demons. (1 Cor. 10:21)
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1 Cor. 11:21‑22,27‑32• 21For each one in eating takes his *own* supper before others, and one is hungry and another drinks to excess.
 22Have ye not then houses for eating and drinking? or do ye despise the assembly of God, and put to shame them who have not? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you? In this point I do not praise.
 27So that whosoever shall eat the bread, or drink the cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty in respect of the body and of the blood of the Lord.
 28But let a man prove himself, and thus eat of the bread, and drink of the cup.
 29For the eater and drinker eats and drinks judgment to himself, not distinguishing the body.
 30On this account many among you are weak and infirm, and a good many are fallen asleep.
 31But if we judged ourselves, so were we not judged.
 32But being judged, we are disciplined of the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world. (1 Cor. 11:21‑22,27‑32)
• It should be noted that the altar and the table of the Lord, in this scripture, are one and the same thing. The altar is thus denominated because the sacrifices were termed, as also Christ whom these typified, God’s bread. (See Lev. 21:6,8,17,21-22; Num. 28:2; John 6:33.) Hence the priests here are charged with offering polluted bread upon God’s altar in proof that they despised Jehovah’s name; for in so doing they plainly showed that they had lost all conception of the holiness of Him to whom they professed to sacrifice. (“Malachi 1” by E. Dennett)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Ye offerf polluted bread upon mine altar; and ye say, Wherein have we polluted thee? In that ye say, The table of Jehovah is contemptible.

JND Translation Notes

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Lit. "bring near," as vers. 8,11; chs. 2.12; 3.3, Lev. 2.8. see 1 Sam. 13.9, "hither."