Malachi 2:9
Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as ye have not kept my ways, but have been partial in the law.
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Gill's Exposition
Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base,.... When their city and temple were destroyed by the Romans, and they were carried captive by them, and became a taunt and a proverb in all places…
Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870
Barnes' Notes
Therefore have I made you contemptible - They had said in their hearts Mal 1:7, “The table of the Lord is contemptible.” So God would requite them “measure for measure.” Yet not only so, but in their…
What was said in the foregoing chapter was directed to the priests (Mal 1:6): Thus saith the Lord of hosts to you, O priests! that despise my name. But the crimes there charged upon them they were…
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