Malachi
Old Testament · translated from the Hebrew
In the Christian order, the last book of the Old Testament. It confronts a people that has grown cold: defective sacrifices, broken marriages, withheld tithes. It announces a messenger who will clear the way before YHWH (3:1).
How it is laid out
Key verses
- Malachi 3:1 — I am sending my messenger, and he will clear the way before me
- Malachi 3:6 — I, YHWH, do not change
- Malachi 3:10 — Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse
Who wrote it
The word of YHWH through Malachi (1:1). In Hebrew the name means “my messenger,” the same expression as in 3:1. The book gives no more details about him.
When it was written
Probably in the 5th century BC, in Persian times: the temple had been rebuilt and there was a governor (1:8).
For whom, and in what situation
For Judah after the exile: priests who offered blind, lame and sick animals (1:8), men who betrayed the wife of their youth (2:14), and a people who robbed Elohim in the tithe (3:8).
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