Zechariah and Malachi share the covenant call, “Return to me ... and I will return to you,” linking the restoration prophets around repentance and renewed covenant fellowship. Zechariah and Malachi use the same restoration call: return to God and he will return to the people.

Numbers assigns Israel’s tithes to the Levites as the inheritance supporting their sanctuary service. Malachi’s charge that the people rob God in tithes and offerings assumes this Torah-shaped system of worship support.

Deuteronomy locates tithing within worship, Levite support, communal rejoicing, and care for strangers, orphans, and widows; that broader Torah context keeps Malachi 3 from becoming a detached money formula.

Nehemiah 13 describes Levites abandoning service because their portions were withheld and then restores the chambers and tithes; Malachi 3 calls the people to bring the full tithe into the storehouse so there may be provision in God’s house. The close overlap gives the prophetic rebuke a concrete restoration-era institutional setting.