Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Malachi 1:1-5
1:1-5 GOD’S LOVE FOR ISRAELPeople may pride themselves that they are God’s people, yet displease him through living to please themselves. Malachi learns through experience that when such people are rebuked, they usually take offence. Their reaction is to point out, in a hurt tone of voice, that they are innocent and have been treated unfairly. Malachi’s method of dealing with them is to quote their complaints (note the number of times he says, ‘You say . . .’ or something similar; e.g. 1:2,6-7;... read more
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Malachi 1:4-5
Malachi 1:4-5. Edom saith, We are empoverished, [or, brought low, ] but we will return and build the desolate places This they accordingly did, as we learn from the history of those times; and undoubtedly thought to become a flourishing people again, and to continue so. But God had determined otherwise, as is here declared. Thus saith the Lord, They shall build, but I will throw down This was accordingly done by God’s giving success, first to the arms of Judas Maccabæus, and afterward... read more