Your borders will reach from the desert in the south to the Lebanon Mountains in the north; from the great Euphrates River in the east, through the Hittite country, to the Mediterranean Sea in the west.

The Lord had made the Syrians hear what sounded like the advance of a large army with horses and chariots, and the Syrians thought that the king of Israel had hired Hittite and Egyptian kings and their armies to attack them.

"I spoke to the prophets and gave them many visions, and through the prophets I gave my people warnings.

This is the message that the LORD gave Malachi to tell the people of Israel.