You offer polluted bread on my altar. You say, ‘How have we polluted you?’ In that you say, ‘Yahweh’s table is contemptible.’
⛓ Read Malachi 1 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Echo2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
"Polluted food" offered on the altar links idol/improper offering with defilement, paralleling the "defiled" conscience over idol-food in v.7. Faint verbal contact through defiled food; offered as a secondary resonance to Daniel 1:8. Contested.
Low confidence'The table of the LORD' as the altar offers the only OT 'table of the Lord' phrase behind v.21's 'table of the Lord.' Low volume and uncertain, but the unique idiom warrants noting.
Low confidence