Malachi 1:6 BSB — MannaFest

Malachi 1:6

“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. But if I am a father, where is My honor? And if I am a master, where is your fear of Me?” says the LORD of Hosts to you priests who despise My name. “But you ask, ‘How have we despised Your name?’

BSB

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ASV

A son honoreth his father, and a servant his master: if then I am a father, where is mine honor? and if I am a master, where is my fear? saith Jehovah of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name?

KJV

A son honoureth his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is mine honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear? saith the Lord of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name?

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Commentary

3 voices

Jerome

LETTER 52.7 (420)

Be obedient to your bishop and obey him as your spiritual father. Sons love and slaves fear. "If I am a father," he says, "where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is my fear?" In your case one man combines in himself many titles to your respect. He is at once monk, bishop and uncle. But the bishops also should know themselves to be priests, not lords. Let them render to the clergy the honor that is their due that the clergy may offer to them the respect which belongs to bishops.

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The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

O priests - Had undutifulness been found among the ignorant people, it might have been a little excusable. But you, O priests, whose business is to know me, have like Eli's sons despised me yourselves, and made others do so too.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

He addresses the priests because they ought to be leaders in piety to the rest of the people, whereas they are foremost in "despising His name." Wherein have we despised, &c.--The same captious spirit of self-satisfied insensibility as prompted their question (Mal 1:2), "Wherein hast Thou loved us?" They are blind alike to God's love and their own guilt.

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Original language & word study

27 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
בֵּ֛ן	ben	a son	H1121 →
יְכַבֵּ֥ד	ye.kha.Bed	he honors	H3513 →
אָ֖ב	'av	a father	H1 →
וְעֶ֣בֶד	ve.'E.ved	and a servant	H5650 →
אֲדֹנָ֑יו	'a.do.Nav	master<s> his	H113 →
וְאִם־	ve.'im-	and if	H518 →
אָ֣ב	'av	[am] a father	H1 →
אָ֣נִי	'A.ni	I	H589 →
אַיֵּ֣ה	'ai.Yeh	where?	H346 →
כְבוֹדִ֡י	khe.vo.Di	[is] honor my	H3519 →
וְאִם־	ve.'im-	and if	H518 →
אֲדוֹנִ֣ים	'a.do.Nim	[am] a master<s>	H113 →
אָנִי֩	'a.Ni	I	H589 →
אַיֵּ֨ה	'ai.Yeh	where?	H346 →
מוֹרָאִ֜י	mo.ra.'I	[is] fear my	H4172 →
אָמַ֣ר׀	'a.Mar	he says	H559 →
יְהוָ֣ה	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
צְבָא֗וֹת	tze.va.'ot	of hosts	H6635 →
לָכֶם֙	la.Khem	to you
הַכֹּֽהֲנִים֙	ha.ko.ha.Nim	O priests	H3548 →
בּוֹזֵ֣י	bo.Zei	[who] despise	H959 →
שְׁמִ֔י	she.Mi	<of> name my	H8034 →
וַאֲמַרְתֶּ֕ם	va.'a.mar.Tem	and you say	H559 →
בַּמֶּ֥ה	ba.Meh	<in> how?	H4100 →
בָזִ֖ינוּ	va.Zi.nu	have we despised	H959 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
שְׁמֶֽךָ׃	she.Me.kha	name your	H8034 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Exodus 20:12
Honor your father and mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
leads to
- Ephesians 6:1–3
  Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
- Colossians 3:20
  Children, obey your parents in everything, for this is pleasing to the Lord.
- Deuteronomy 5:16
  Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, so that your days may be long and that it may go well with you in the land that the…
- Mark 7:10
  For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother’ and ‘Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.’
- Proverbs 23:22–25
  Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.
Through
Luke 6:46
Why do you call Me ‘Lord, Lord,’ but not do what I say?
leads to
- Matthew 7:21–23
  Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of My Father in heaven.
- Galatians 6:7
  Do not be deceived: God is not to be mocked. Whatever a man sows, he will reap in return.
- Luke 13:25–27
  After the master of the house gets up and shuts the door, you will stand outside knocking and saying, ‘Lord, open the door for us.’ But he will reply, ‘I do not know where…

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The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Malachi