Malachi 1:13

The priests find God's service wearisome and contemptuously bring stolen, lame, and sick animals, which God refuses to accept.

Cross-references · 22

• Mic 6:3My people, what have I done to you? How have I burdened you? Answer me!
• Mark 14:37–38He came and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, “Simon, are you sleeping? Couldn’t you watch one hour?
• Lev 22:19–23that you may be accepted, you shall offer a male without defect, of the bulls, of the sheep, or of the goats.
• Mal 1:7–8You offer polluted bread on my altar. You say, ‘How have we polluted you?’ In that you say, ‘Yahweh’s table is contemptible.’
• Matt 6:1–2“Be careful that you don’t do your charitable giving before men, to be seen by them, or else you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.
• Isa 43:22–23Yet you have not called on me, Jacob; but you have been weary of me, Israel.
• Matt 6:16“Moreover when you fast, don’t be like the hypocrites, with sad faces. For they disfigure their faces, that they may be seen by men to be fasting. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward.
• Ezek 4:14Then I said, “Ah Lord Yahweh! Behold, my soul has not been polluted; for from my youth up even until now I have not eaten of that which dies of itself, or is torn of animals; neither came there abominable meat into my mouth!”
• Ezek 44:31The priests shall not eat of anything that dies of itself, or is torn, whether it is bird or animal.
• Mark 14:4–5But there were some who were indignant among themselves, saying, “Why has this ointment been wasted?
• Jer 7:21–24Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says: “Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices, and eat meat.
• Isa 57:6Among the smooth stones of the valley is your portion; they, they are your lot. You have even poured a drink offering to them. You have offered an offering. Shall I be appeased for these things?
• Zech 7:5–6“Speak to all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and in the seventh month for these seventy years, did you at all fast to me, really to me?
• 1 Sam 2:29Why do you kick at my sacrifice and at my offering, which I have commanded in my habitation, and honor your sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the best of all the offerings of Israel my people?’
• Isa 1:12When you come to appear before me, who has required this at your hand, to trample my courts?
• Mal 2:13This again you do: you cover Yahweh’s altar with tears, with weeping, and with sighing, because he doesn’t regard the offering any more, neither receives it with good will at your hand.
• Amos 8:5Saying, ‘When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, that we may market wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel large, and dealing falsely with balances of deceit;
• Jer 7:9–11Will you steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense to Baal, and walk after other gods that you have not known,
• Amos 5:21–23I hate, I despise your feasts, and I can’t stand your solemn assemblies.
• Matt 6:5“When you pray, you shall not be as the hypocrites, for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. Most certainly, I tell you, they have received their reward.
• Lev 22:8That which dies of itself, or is torn by animals, he shall not eat, defiling himself by it. I am Yahweh.
• Deut 15:21If it has any defect, is lame or blind, or has any defect whatever, you shall not sacrifice it to Yahweh your God.

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