Mal 1:2-3 | EE | STEP | ‘I have loved you’, says the LORD. ‘But you ask, “How have you loved us?”’ ‘Esau was Jacob‘s brother’, the LORD says. ‘I have loved Jacob and all his descendants.

Malachi 1:2-3

2 ‘I have loved you’, says the LORD. ‘But you ask, “How have you loved us?”’ ^{▼▼1:2 God says that he loves all Israelites. They are his special people.}

‘Esau was Jacob‘s brother’, the LORD says. ‘I have loved Jacob and all his descendants.

3 But I have not loved Esau and his descendants.

Esau is like my enemy and I have caused trouble for him. Esau’s mountains are now empty. Nobody uses the land any longer. There are only jackals there now. They have the things that Esau used there.’ ^{▼▼1:3 Esau and Jacob were brothers who were born at the same time. Esau came out of his mother’s body first. So he should have received God’s special blessing. But Esau sold this special blessing to Jacob.}