Discovery BoxMalachi 3:14 
Context3:14 You have said, ‘It is useless to serve God. How have we been helped 1 by keeping his requirements and going about like mourners before the Lord who rules over all? 2
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.
Malachi 4:1
Context4:1 (3:19) 4 “For indeed the day 5 is coming, burning like a furnace, and all the arrogant evildoers will be chaff. The coming day will burn them up,” says the Lord who rules over all. “It 6 will not leave even a root or branch.
1 tn Heb “What [is the] profit”; NIV “What did we gain.”
2 sn The people’s public display of self-effacing piety has gone unrewarded by 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
4 sn Beginning with 4:1, the verse numbers through 4:6 in the English Bible differ from the verse numbers in the Hebrew text (BHS), with 4:1 ET = 3:19 HT, 4:2 ET = 3:20 HT, etc., through 4:6 ET = 3:24 HT. Thus the book of Malachi in the Hebrew Bible has only three chapters, with 24 verses in ch. 3.
5 sn This day is the well-known “day of the
6 tn Heb “so that it” (so NASB, NRSV). For stylistic reasons a new sentence was begun here in the translation.
