What does Malachi 3:10 mean?

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.
Malachi 3:10, King James Version

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The verse in its chapter

Malachi 3:8-12

  1. 8 Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.
  2. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 12 And all nations shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a delightsome land, saith the LORD of hosts.

Study note

Tyndale Open Study Notes (CC BY-SA 4.0).

3:10 Put me to the test! The divine invitation to test the Lord offers the restoration community an opportunity to prove his faithfulness to his covenant promises.

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About the book of Malachi

Author
Malachi (Malachi 1:1)
When
c. 450 to 430 BC
Period
Volta do exílio, 538 a c. 430 a.C. (in Portuguese)

Authorship: the book itself or Christian tradition. Approximate dates, as in Carson and Moo, An Introduction to the New Testament, and Longman and Dillard, An Introduction to the Old Testament.

In the Mercy Bible Atlas (in Portuguese)

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