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An Exegetical Commentary - Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi is unavailable, but you can change that!

The books of Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi are particularly relevant and beneficial to modern Christians, for they can see in them the covenant faithfulness of God to His ancient people--a faithfulness exhibited in the coming of Jesus Christ--and they can take heart in the realization that the God who restored Israel long ago can also restore them in times of spiritual decline and personal...

Both “son” and “slave” are terms characteristic of suzerainty treaties, suggestive of subordination and yet mutual affection.1 Evidence of their disdain is the fact that the priests despise the name of YHWH. The verb used (בּוּז, bûz) here fundamentally means “to hold in contempt,” that is, to view as unimportant. How unimportant may be seen in the application of the same verb to the “table” of YHWH (v. 7). The word here (שֻׁלְחַן, šulḥan) refers, in fact, to the altar, as the parallelism to מִזְבֵּחַ
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