Matthew Poole and continuators on Malachi 3:8

8 ¶ Will a man rob God ? yet ye have robbed me : but ye say, Wherein have we rob bed thee ? In tithes and offerings .

Among the many deviations from Gods Law (which they do not, because they will not, see) the Prophet chargeth them with this kind of Sacrilegious Theft, they had detained his Tithes, shortned him in that portion which he had reserved to himself, and for his Service, which is as our Version expresseth it a Robbing of God. And as the words lie in the original, they do by arguing from the less to the greater aggravate this sin; as they may be read, will a man rob a great man? or, a Judge? for the word us'd will bear these Notions. Or, will a man rob the Gods? i. e. do not Heathens abhor the foulness of such a fault, and fear the punishment of Sacriledge, and therefore would not rob their Idols? as an other Prophet ask'd once the question, have any of the nations changed their Gods, which yet are no Gods? Ier. 2.11. so now, have the Nations rob'd their Gods?

But, blush ye shameless Priests! and Jewes! you have rob'd not a great man, but the great God; not Judges, but the Judge of Judges; not an Idol, but the Living God. How great is your crime!

A question just like those chap. 1.7. and 2.17. and 3.7. which see.

The People rob'd God not paying the full Tenth, which God appointed should be paid to him. The Priests rob'd God in Tithes while they took too much, or it may be all for their own particular, and family use, and did not distribute them to all that by Gods Law had a right to a proportion of them.

Either first fruits, or other oblations and gifts, which were appointed to be brought to the Temple for the service of God; in all which the People, and Priests had given him less then his due.

Marginal references: Neh. 13.10.