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Malachi 3

Mal. 3:10 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Bring
bow' (Hebrew #935)
to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
KJV usage: abide, apply, attain, X be, befall, + besiege, bring (forth, in, into, to pass), call, carry, X certainly, (cause, let, thing for) to come (against, in, out, upon, to pass), depart, X doubtless again, + eat, + employ, (cause to) enter (in, into, -tering, -trance, -try), be fallen, fetch, + follow, get, give, go (down, in, to war), grant, + have, X indeed, (in-)vade, lead, lift (up), mention, pull in, put, resort, run (down), send, set, X (well) stricken (in age), X surely, take (in), way.
Pronounce: bo
Origin: a primitive root
ye all the tithes
ma`aser (Hebrew #4643)
and (in plural) feminine maasrah {mah-as-raw'}; from 6240; a tenth; especially a tithe
KJV usage: tenth (part), tithe(-ing).
Pronounce: mah-as-ayr'
Origin: or maasar {mah-as-ar'}
into the storehouse
'owtsar (Hebrew #214)
a depository
KJV usage: armory, cellar, garner, store(-house), treasure(-house) (-y).
Pronounce: o-tsaw'
Origin: from 686
, that there may be meat
tereph (Hebrew #2964)
something torn, i.e. a fragment, e.g. a fresh leaf, prey, food
KJV usage: leaf, meat, prey, spoil.
Pronounce: teh'-ref
Origin: from 2963
in mine house
bayith (Hebrew #1004)
a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
KJV usage: court, daughter, door, + dungeon, family, + forth of, X great as would contain, hangings, home(born), (winter)house(-hold), inside(-ward), palace, place, + prison, + steward, + tablet, temple, web, + within(-out).
Pronounce: bah'-yith
Origin: probably from 1129 abbreviated
, and prove
bachan (Hebrew #974)
to test (especially metals); generally and figuratively, to investigate
KJV usage: examine, prove, tempt, try (trial).
Pronounce: baw-khan'
Origin: a primitive root
me now herewith
zo'th (Hebrew #2063)
this (often used adverb)
KJV usage: hereby (-in, -with), it, likewise, the one (other, same), she, so (much), such (deed), that, therefore, these, this (thing), thus.
Pronounce: zothe'
Origin: irregular feminine of 2089
, saith
'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
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
of hosts
tsaba' (Hebrew #6635)
from 6633; a mass of persons (or figuratively, things), especially reg. organized for war (an army); by implication, a campaign, literally or figuratively (specifically, hardship, worship)
KJV usage: appointed time, (+) army, (+) battle, company, host, service, soldiers, waiting upon, war(-fare).
Pronounce: tsaw-baw'
Origin: or (feminine) tsbadah {tseb-aw-aw'}
, if I will not open
pathach (Hebrew #6605)
to open wide (literally or figuratively); specifically, to loosen, begin, plough, carve
KJV usage: appear, break forth, draw (out), let go free, (en-)grave(-n), loose (self), (be, be set) open(-ing), put off, ungird, unstop, have vent.
Pronounce: paw-thakh'
Origin: a primitive root
you the windows
'arubbah (Hebrew #699)
a lattice; (by implication) a window, dove-cot (because of the pigeon-holes), chimney (with its apertures for smoke), sluice (with openings for water)
KJV usage: chimney, window.
Pronounce: ar-oob-baw'
Origin: feminine participle passive of 693 (as if for lurking)
of heaven
shamayim (Hebrew #8064)
from an unused root meaning to be lofty; the sky (as aloft; the dual perhaps alluding to the visible arch in which the clouds move, as well as to the higher ether where the celestial bodies revolve)
KJV usage: air, X astrologer, heaven(-s).
Pronounce: shaw-mah'-yim
Origin: dual of an unused singular shameh {shaw-meh'}
, and ζpour you out
ruwq (Hebrew #7324)
to pour out (literally or figuratively), i.e. empty
KJV usage: X arm, cast out, draw (out), (make) empty, pour forth (out).
Pronounce: rook
Origin: a primitive root
a blessing
Brakah (Hebrew #1293)
benediction; by implication prosperity
KJV usage: blessing, liberal, pool, present.
Pronounce: ber-aw-kaw'
Origin: from 1288
, thatk there shall not be room enough
day (Hebrew #1767)
enough (as noun or adverb), used chiefly with preposition in phrases
KJV usage: able, according to, after (ability), among, as (oft as), (more than) enough, from, in, since, (much as is) sufficient(-ly), too much, very, when.
Pronounce: dahee
Origin: of uncertain derivation
to receive it.
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empty out.
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2 Chron. 31:10• 10And Azariah the chief priest of the house of Zadok spoke to him and said, Since they began to bring the heave-offerings into the house of Jehovah, we have eaten and been satisfied and have left plenty; for Jehovah has blessed his people; and what is left is this great store. (2 Chron. 31:10)

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Ministry on This Verse

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2 Chron. 31:4‑10• 4And he commanded the people that dwelt in Jerusalem to give the portion of the priests and the Levites, that they might be encouraged in the law of Jehovah.
 5And as soon as the commandment was published, the children of Israel gave in abundance the firstfruits of corn, new wine and oil and honey, and of all the increase of the field; and they brought in abundantly the tithe of all things.
 6And the children of Israel and of Judah, that dwelt in the cities of Judah, they also brought the tithe of oxen and sheep, and the tithe of holy things which were consecrated to Jehovah their God, and laid them by heaps.
 7In the third month they began to lay the heaps, and finished them in the seventh month.
 8And Hezekiah and the princes came and saw the heaps, and they blessed Jehovah, and his people Israel.
 9And Hezekiah questioned the priests and the Levites concerning the heaps.
 10And Azariah the chief priest of the house of Zadok spoke to him and said, Since they began to bring the heave-offerings into the house of Jehovah, we have eaten and been satisfied and have left plenty; for Jehovah has blessed his people; and what is left is this great store. (2 Chron. 31:4‑10)
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Neh. 10:33‑39• 33for the bread to be set in rows, and for the continual oblation, and for the continual burnt-offering, for that of the sabbaths and of the new moons, for the set feasts and for the holy things, and for the sin-offerings to make an atonement for Israel, and for all the work of the house of our God.
 34And we cast the lots among the priests, the Levites, and the people, for the wood-offering, to bring it into the house of our God, according to our fathers' houses, at times appointed year by year, to burn upon the altar of Jehovah our God, as it is written in the law;
 35and to bring the first-fruits of our land, and the first-fruits of all fruit of all trees, year by year to the house of Jehovah,
 36and the firstborn of our sons and of our cattle, as it is written in the law; and to bring the firstlings of our herds and of our flocks to the house of our God, to the priests that minister in the house of our God;
 37and that we should bring the first-fruits of our coarse meal and our heave-offerings, and the fruit of all manner of trees, new wine and oil, to the priests, into the chambers of the house of our God, and the tithes of our ground to the Levites, that they, the Levites, should take the tithes in all the cities of our tillage.
 38And the priest the son of Aaron shall be with the Levites, when the Levites take tithes; and the Levites shall bring up the tithe of the tithes to the house of our God, into the chambers of the treasure-house.
 39For the children of Israel and the children of Levi shall bring the heave-offering of the corn, of the new wine and the oil, into the chambers, where are the vessels of the sanctuary, and the priests that minister, and the doorkeepers and the singers. And we will not forsake the house of our God. (Neh. 10:33‑39)
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Prov. 3:9‑10• 9Honour Jehovah with thy substance, and with the first-fruits of all thine increase;
 10so shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy vats shall overflow with new wine. (Prov. 3:9‑10)
the storehouse.
1 Chron. 26:20• 20And the Levites: Ahijah was over the treasures of the house of God, and over the treasures of the dedicated things. (1 Chron. 26:20)
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2 Chron. 31:11‑19• 11And Hezekiah commanded to prepare chambers in the house of Jehovah; and they prepared them,
 12and brought in the heave-offerings and the tithes and the dedicated things faithfully; and over these Cononiah the Levite was ruler, and Shimei his brother was second.
 13And Jehiel, and Azaziah, and Nahath, and Asahel, and Jerimoth, and Jozabad, and Eliel, and Jismachiah, and Mahath, and Benaiah were overseers under the hand of Cononiah and Shimei his brother, at the command of Hezekiah the king and Azariah the ruler of the house of God.
 14And Kore the son of Jimnah the Levite, the doorkeeper toward the east, was over the voluntary-offerings of God, to distribute the heave-offerings of Jehovah, and the most holy things.
 15And under him were Eden and Miniamin and Jeshua and Shemaiah, Amariah and Shecaniah, in the cities of the priests, in their set trust, to make distributions to their brethren by their divisions, to the great as to the small,
 16besides those from three years old and upward who as males were entered in the genealogical register,--all that came into the house of Jehovah, as the duty of every day required, for their service in their charges, according to their divisions,
 17--both to the priests enregistered according to their fathers' houses, and to the Levites from twenty years old and upward, in their charges, by their divisions;
 18and to all their little ones, their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, the whole congregation of those entered in the register; for in their trust they hallowed themselves to be holy.
 19And for the sons of Aaron the priests who were in the country, in the suburbs of their cities, there were, in every several city, men expressed by name, to give portions to all the males among the priests, and to all the Levites that were entered in the register. (2 Chron. 31:11‑19)
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Neh. 10:38• 38And the priest the son of Aaron shall be with the Levites, when the Levites take tithes; and the Levites shall bring up the tithe of the tithes to the house of our God, into the chambers of the treasure-house. (Neh. 10:38)
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Neh. 12:44,47• 44And at that time men were appointed over the chambers of the treasures for the heave-offerings, for the first-fruits, and for the tithes, to gather into them, out of the fields of the cities, the portions assigned by the law for the priests and the Levites; for Judah rejoiced over the priests, and over the Levites that waited.
 47And all Israel, in the days of Zerubbabel and in the days of Nehemiah, gave the portions of the singers and the doorkeepers, every day what was needed, and they consecrated things for the Levites; and the Levites consecrated for the children of Aaron. (Neh. 12:44,47)
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Neh. 13:5,10‑13• 5had prepared for him a great chamber, where formerly they laid the oblations, the frankincense, and the vessels, and the tithes of the corn, the new wine and the oil, which was commanded for the Levites and the singers and the doorkeepers, and the heave-offerings of the priests.
 10And I perceived that the portions of the Levites had not been given, and that the Levites and the singers that did the work had fled every one to his field.
 11Then I contended with the rulers, and said, Why is the house of God forsaken? And I gathered them together and set them in their place.
 12And all Judah brought the tithe of the corn and the new wine and the oil into the storehouses.
 13And I made storekeepers over the storehouses: Shelemiah the priest, and Zadok the scribe, and of the Levites, Pedaiah; and subordinate to them, Hanan the son of Zaccur, the son of Mattaniah; for they were esteemed faithful, and their office was to distribute to their brethren. (Neh. 13:5,10‑13)
and prove.
1 Kings 17:13‑16• 13And Elijah said to her, Fear not; go, do as thou hast said; but make me thereof a little cake first; and bring it to me; and afterwards make for thee and for thy son.
 14For thus saith Jehovah the God of Israel: The meal in the barrel shall not waste, neither shall the oil in the cruse fail, until the day that Jehovah sendeth rain upon the face of the earth!
 15And she went and did according to the word of Elijah; and she, and he, and her house, ate a whole year.
 16The meal in the barrel did not waste, neither did the oil in the cruse fail, according to the word of Jehovah which he had spoken through Elijah. (1 Kings 17:13‑16)
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Psa. 37:3• 3Confide in Jehovah, and do good; dwell in the land, and feed on faithfulness; (Psa. 37:3)
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Hag. 2:19• 19Is the seed yet in the barn? yea, the vine, and the fig-tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive-tree have not brought forth: from this day will I bless you. (Hag. 2:19)
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Matt. 6:33• 33But seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you. (Matt. 6:33)
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2 Cor. 9:6‑8• 6But this is true, he that sows sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he that sows in the spirit of blessing shall reap also in blessing:
 7each according as he is purposed in his heart; not grievingly, or of necessity; for God loves a cheerful giver.
 8But God is able to make every gracious gift abound towards you, that, having in every way always all-sufficiency, ye may abound to every good work: (2 Cor. 9:6‑8)
open.
Gen. 7:11• 11In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that same day all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. (Gen. 7:11)
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Deut. 28:12• 12Jehovah will open to thee his good treasure, the heavens, to give rain unto thy land in its season, and to bless all the work of thy hand; and thou shalt lend unto many nations, but thou shalt not borrow. (Deut. 28:12)
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2 Kings 7:2,19• 2And the captain on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God and said, Behold, if Jehovah should make windows in the heavens, would this thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.
 19And the captain answered the man of God and said, Behold, if Jehovah should make windows in the heavens, would such a thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof. (2 Kings 7:2,19)
pour you out.
Heb. empty out.
Eccl. 11:3• 3If the clouds be full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth; and if a tree fall toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be. (Eccl. 11:3)
that there.
Lev. 26:10• 10And ye shall eat old store, and clear away the old because of the new. (Lev. 26:10)
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2 Chron. 31:10• 10And Azariah the chief priest of the house of Zadok spoke to him and said, Since they began to bring the heave-offerings into the house of Jehovah, we have eaten and been satisfied and have left plenty; for Jehovah has blessed his people; and what is left is this great store. (2 Chron. 31:10)
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Luke 5:6‑7• 6And having done this, they enclosed a great multitude of fishes. And their net broke.
 7And they beckoned to their partners who were in the other ship to come and help them, and they came, and filled both the ships, so that they were sinking. (Luke 5:6‑7)
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Luke 12:16‑17• 16And he spoke a parable to them, saying, The land of a certain rich man brought forth abundantly.
 17And he reasoned within himself saying, What shall I do? for I have not a place where I shall lay up my fruits. (Luke 12:16‑17)
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John 21:6‑11• 6And he said to them, Cast the net at the right side of the ship and ye will find. They cast therefore, and they could no longer draw it, from the multitude of fishes.
 7That disciple therefore whom Jesus loved says to Peter, It is the Lord. Simon Peter therefore, having heard that it was the Lord, girded his overcoat on him (for he was naked), and cast himself into the sea;
 8and the other disciples came in the small boat, for they were not far from the land, but somewhere about two hundred cubits, dragging the net of fishes.
 9When therefore they went out on the land, they see a fire of coals there, and fish laid on it, and bread.
 10Jesus says to them, Bring of the fishes which ye have now taken.
 11Simon Peter went up and drew the net to the land full of great fishes, a hundred and fifty-three; and though there were so many, the net was not rent. (John 21:6‑11)
• The Lord desires the tithes to be brought that there may be meat in His house; that is, that those whose office it was to attend to the service of the sanctuary might be properly cared for and sustained. (See on this subject Neh. 10:32-39; 13:4-10.) For it was a grievous thing in the eyes of Jehovah that the Levites and priests should be neglected. (“Malachi 3” by E. Dennett)
• It is not, it will be observed, “PRAY, and I will open the windows of heaven,” but, “Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse.” It would be well if this passage were sometimes read and explained at meetings for prayer, as it might be used to remind us of the real hindrances to blessing. To pray is always well, but to pray while we are withholding from God, and without self-judgment on this account, is useless. (“Malachi 3” by E. Dennett)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Bring the whole tithe into the treasure-house, that there may be food in my house, and prove me now herewith, saith Jehovah of hosts, if I open not to you the windows of the heavens, and pour you out a blessing, till there be no place for iti.

JND Translation Notes

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Or "a blessing, to superabundance."