The same Hebrew word is translated my messenger in Malachi 3:1.
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The book gives Malachi no father, no king and no date. It speaks of a governor and of offerings at the temple, and says little more about its setting. Through Malachi the word of the Lord came to Israel as a run of charges that the people answer by asking how it can be so. The Lord says he has loved them, rebukes priests who bring blind and lame animals to his altar, and promises a messenger to prepare his way. He calls for the tithes. The book closes the Old Testament as most Christian Bibles arrange it, ending on the law of Moses and the sending of Elijah.
Key Scripture AppearancesKJV
Malachi 1:1
The burden of the word of the LORD to Israel by Malachi.Malachi 1:1, KJV
Malachi 1:6
A son honoureth his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is mine honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear? saith the LORD of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name?Malachi 1:6, KJV
Malachi 3:1
Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts.Malachi 3:1, KJV
Malachi 3:10
Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.Malachi 3:10, KJV
Malachi 4:5
Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD:Malachi 4:5, KJV
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