| 3:1 | Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the LORD, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts. |
| 3:2 | But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner's fire, and like fullers' soap: |
| 3:3 | And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the LORD an offering in righteousness. |
| 3:4 | Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant unto the LORD, as in the days of old, and as in former years. |
| 3:5 | And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts. |
| 3:6 | For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed. |
| 3:7 | Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the LORD of hosts. But ye said, Wherein shall we return? |
| 3:8 | Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings. |
| 3:9 | Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation. |
| 3:10 | Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it. |
| 3:10 | 萬軍之耶和華說、你們要將當納的十分之一、全然送入倉庫、使我家有糧、以此試試我、是否為你們敞開天上的窗戶、傾福與你們、甚至無處可容。 |
| 3:10 | 万军之耶和华说，你们要将当纳的十分之一，全然送入仓库，使我家有粮，以此试试我，是否为你们敞开天上的窗户，倾福与你们，甚至无处可容。 |
| neh:10:38 | And the priest the son of Aaron shall be with the Levites, when the Levites take tithes: and the Levites shall bring up the tithe of the tithes unto the house of our God, to the chambers, into the treasure house. |
| neh:13:12 | Then brought all Judah the tithe of the corn and the new wine and the oil unto the treasuries. |
| 1ch:26:20 | And of the Levites, Ahijah was over the treasures of the house of God, and over the treasures of the dedicated things. |
| 2ch:31:11 | Then Hezekiah commanded to prepare chambers in the house of the LORD; and they prepared them, |
| pro:3:9 | Honour the LORD with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase: |
| pro:3:10 | So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine. |
| gen:7:11 | In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. |
| 2ki:7:2 | Then a lord on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, Behold, if the LORD would make windows in heaven, might this thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof. |
| 2ch:31:10 | And Azariah the chief priest of the house of Zadok answered him, and said, Since the people began to bring the offerings into the house of the LORD, we have had enough to eat, and have left plenty: for the LORD hath blessed his people; and that which is left is this great store. |
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| 3:11 | And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith the LORD of hosts. |
| 3:12 | And all nations shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a delightsome land, saith the LORD of hosts. |
| 3:13 | Your words have been stout against me, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, What have we spoken so much against thee? |
| 3:14 | Ye have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts? |
| 3:15 | And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered. |
| 3:16 | Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name. |
| 3:17 | And they shall be mine, saith the LORD of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him. |
| 3:18 | Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not. |
