Discovery BoxMalachi 2:6 
Context2:6 He taught what was true; 1 sinful words were not found on his lips. He walked with me in peace and integrity, and he turned many people away from sin.
Malachi 2:9
Context2:9 “Therefore, I have caused you to be ignored and belittled before all people to the extent to which you are not following after me and are showing partiality in your 2 instruction.”
Malachi 3:7
Context3:7 From the days of your ancestors you have ignored 3 my commandments 4 and have not kept them! Return to me, and I will return to you,” says the Lord who rules over all. “But you say, ‘How should we return?’
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. 5 I will spare them as a man spares his son who serves him.
1 tn Heb “True teaching was in his mouth”; cf. NASB, NRSV “True instruction (doctrine NAB) was in his mouth.”
2 tn Heb “in the instruction” (so NASB). The Hebrew article is used here as a possessive pronoun (cf. NRSV, NLT).
3 tn Heb “turned aside from.”
4 tn Or “statutes” (so NAB, NASB, NRSV); NIV “decrees”; NLT “laws.”
5 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
