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Text -- Malachi 1:1-11 (NET)
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Introduction and God’s Election of Israel
1:1 What follows is divine revelation . The word of the Lord came to Israel through Malachi :
1:2 “I have shown love to you,” says the Lord , but you say , “How have you shown love to us?” “Esau was Jacob’s brother ,” the Lord explains , “yet I chose Jacob
1:3 and rejected Esau . I turned Esau’s mountains into a deserted wasteland and gave his territory to the wild jackals .”
1:4 Edom says , “Though we are devastated , we will once again build the ruined places .” So the Lord who rules over all responds , “They indeed may build , but I will overthrow . They will be known as the land of evil , the people with whom the Lord is permanently displeased .
1:5 Your eyes will see it, and then you will say , ‘May the Lord be magnified even beyond the border of Israel !’”
The Sacrilege of Priestly Service
1:6 “A son naturally honors his father and a slave respects his master . If I am your father , where is my honor ? If I am your master , where is my respect ? The Lord who rules over all asks you this, you priests who make light of my name ! But you reply , ‘How have we made light of your name ?’
1:7 You are offering improper sacrifices on my altar , yet you ask , ‘How have we offended you?’ By treating the table of the Lord as if it is of no importance !
1:8 For when you offer blind animals as a sacrifice , is that not wrong ? And when you offer the lame and sick , is that not wrong as well? Indeed, try offering them to your governor ! Will he be pleased with you or show you favor ?” asks the Lord who rules over all .
1:9 But now plead for God’s favor that he might be gracious to us. “With this kind of offering in your hands , how can he be pleased with you?” asks the Lord who rules over all .
1:10 “I wish that one of you would close the temple doors , so that you no longer would light useless fires on my altar . I am not pleased with you,” says the Lord who rules over all , “and I will no longer accept an offering from you.
1:11 For from the east to the west my name will be great among the nations . Incense and pure offerings will be offered in my name everywhere, for my name will be great among the nations ,” says the Lord who rules over all .
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Malachi |
Malachi, Prophecies of |
Hypocrisy |
NABATAEANS; NABATHAEANS |
OBADIAH, BOOK OF |
Minister |
Edomites |
LAME |
Formalism |
Dragon |
RESPECT OF PERSONS |
SACRIFICE, IN THE OLD TESTAMENT, 2 |
God |
Edom |
Table |
Frankincense |
Jackal |
Incense |
Presumption |
Quotations and Allusions |
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NET Notes: Mal 1:1 Heb “The word of the Lord to Israel by the hand of Malachi.” There is some question as to whether מַלְא...
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NET Notes: Mal 1:4 Heb “and they will call them.” The third person plural subject is indefinite; one could translate, “and people will call them.”...
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NET Notes: Mal 1:6 The pronoun “your” is supplied in the translation for clarification (also a second time before “master” later in this verse).
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NET Notes: Mal 1:7 The word table, here a synonym for “altar,” has overtones of covenant imagery in which a feast shared by the covenant partners was an impo...
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NET Notes: Mal 1:9 After the imperative, the prefixed verbal form with vav conjunction indicates purpose (cf. NASB, NRSV).
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NET Notes: Mal 1:10 The rhetorical language suggests that as long as the priesthood and people remain disobedient, the temple doors may as well be closed because God is n...
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