Book of Malachi•NIV

Outline

The book of Malachi describes six disputations between God and Israel. There is a common pattern in each dispute:

1. God charges his people with bad behavior;
2. he then envisages the people’s response to the charge (“But you say”; 1:2, 6, 7, 13; 2:14, 17; 3:7, 8, 13);
3. God then replies to their presumed response and expands the charge. The chart below shows the subject of each dispute and God’s response to it.