Discovery BoxMalachi 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 1 instruction.”
Malachi 2:13
Context2:13 You also do this: You cover the altar of the Lord with tears 2 as you weep and groan, because he no longer pays any attention to the offering nor accepts it favorably from you.
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 “in the instruction” (so NASB). The Hebrew article is used here as a possessive pronoun (cf. NRSV, NLT).
2 sn You cover the altar of the
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
