OUTLINE OF CONTENTS

1

• Jehovah’s love for his people (1-5)

• Priests presenting inferior sacrifices (6-14)

  • God’s name to be great among the nations (11)

2

• Priests’ failure to instruct the people (1-9)

  • Priests’ lips should safeguard knowledge (7)

• People guilty of unjust divorcing (10-17)

  • “‘I hate divorce,’ says Jehovah” (16)

3

• The true Lord comes to cleanse his temple (1-5)

  • The messenger of the covenant (1)

• Encouragement to return to Jehovah (6-12)

  • Jehovah does not change (6)

  • “Return to me, and I will return to you” (7)

  • ‘Bring the entire tithe, and Jehovah will pour out blessings’ (10)

• The righteous and the wicked (13-18)

  • A book of remembrance written before God (16)

  • Distinction between the righteous and the wicked (18)

4

• The coming of Elijah before Jehovah’s day (1-6)

  • “The sun of righteousness will shine” (2)