Discovery BoxMalachi 1:9 
Context1:9 But now plead for God’s favor 1 that he might be gracious to us. 2 “With this kind of offering in your hands, how can he be pleased with you?” asks the Lord who rules over all.
Malachi 3:17
Context3:17 “They will belong to me,” says the Lord who rules over all, “in the day when I prepare my own special property. 3 I will spare them as a man spares his son who serves him.
1 tn Heb “seek the face of God.”
2 tn After the imperative, the prefixed verbal form with vav conjunction indicates purpose (cf. NASB, NRSV).
3 sn The Hebrew word סְגֻלָּה (sÿgullah, “special property”) is a technical term referring to all the recipients of God’s redemptive grace, especially Israel (Exod 19:5; Deut 7:6; 14:2; 26:18). The
