Malachi 3:8. Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me.
They were always ready to deny or question a just accusation, instead of letting it operate upon their conscience, so they asked about this charge.
Malachi 3:8. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.
They had kept back from God’s service the money which was needful for the carrying on of the worship of his house. We read, in Nehemiah 13:10, that "the Levites and the singers, that did the work, were fled every one to his field," for they could not live at Jerusalem, because "the portions of the Levites had not been given them," - their supply of provisions having been stopped through the meanness of the people who had thus robbed the Lord "in tithes and offerings."
Malachi 3:8. Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me.
They were always ready to deny or question a just accusation, instead of letting it operate upon their conscience, so they asked about this charge.
Malachi 3:8. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.
They had kept back from God’s service the money which was needful for the carrying on of the worship of his house. We read, in Nehemiah 13:10, that "the Levites and the singers, that did the work, were fled every one to his field," for they could not live at Jerusalem, because "the portions of the Levites had not been given them," - their supply of provisions having been stopped through the meanness of the people who had thus robbed the Lord "in tithes and offerings."