Haggaichapter 1
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A.You live in paneled houses while my house lies wastevv. 1-6
1 In the second year of the reign of Darius, on the first day of the sixth month, the word of the LORD came through Haggai the prophet to Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, stating 2 that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “These people say, ‘The time has not yet come to rebuild the house of the LORD.’” 3 Then the word of the LORD came through Haggai the prophet, saying: 4 “Is it a time for you yourselves to live in your paneled houses, while this house lies in ruins?” 5 Now this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Consider carefully your ways. 6 You have planted much but harvested little. You eat but never have enough. You drink but never have your fill. You put on clothes but never get warm. You earn wages to put into a bag pierced through.”
B.Consider your ways: you sowed much and brought in littlevv. 7-11
7 This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Consider carefully your ways. 8 Go up into the hills, bring down lumber, and build the house, so that I may take pleasure in it and be glorified, says the LORD. 9 You expected much, but behold, it amounted to little. And what you brought home, I blew away. Why? declares the LORD of Hosts. Because My house still lies in ruins, while each of you is busy with his own house. 10 Therefore, on account of you the heavens have withheld their dew and the earth has withheld its crops. 11 I have summoned a drought on the fields and on the mountains, on the grain, new wine, and oil, and on whatever the ground yields, on man and beast, and on all the labor of your hands.”
C.The people obeyed and the LORD stirred up their spiritvv. 12-15
12 Then Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, as well as all the remnant of the people, obeyed the voice of the LORD their God and the words of the prophet Haggai, because the LORD their God had sent him. So the people feared the LORD. 13 Haggai, the messenger of the LORD, delivered the message of the LORD to the people: “I am with you,” declares the LORD. 14 So the LORD stirred the spirit of Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, as well as the spirit of all the remnant of the people. And they came and began the work on the house of the LORD of Hosts, their God, 15 on the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month, in the second year of King Darius.
Chapter summary
Dated to the day (the second year of Darius, sixth month, first day) and addressed to Zerubbabel the governor and Joshua the high priest.
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Chapter summary
Dated to the day (the second year of Darius, sixth month, first day) and addressed to Zerubbabel the governor and Joshua the high priest.
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Dated to the day (the second year of Darius, sixth month, first day) and addressed to Zerubbabel the governor and Joshua the high priest. The people say it is not the time to build Jehovah's house, and the prophet answers with a question that lands in their own living rooms: 'Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your ceiled houses, while this house lieth waste?' Then the audit: 'Ye have sown much, and bring in little… and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes.' Consider your ways. Twenty-three days later they obey, Jehovah stirs up their spirit, and work resumes, carried by six words: 'I am with you, saith Jehovah' (1:13).
Drawn from Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory, Matthew Henry, Complete Commentary, John Wesley, Notes on the Old Testament and John Calvin, Commentaries.
Context
Prophecy · Haggai — Haggai overview
- A. 1–6 You live in paneled houses while my house lies waste
- B. 7–11 Consider your ways: you sowed much and brought in little
- C. 12–15 The people obeyed and the LORD stirred up their spirit
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Haggai 15 verses
- Haggai 1:1In the second year of the reign of Darius, on the first day of the sixth month, the word of the LORD came through Haggai the prophet to Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, stating
- Haggai 1:4“Is it a time for you yourselves to live in your paneled houses, while this house lies in ruins?”
- Haggai 1:5Now this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Consider carefully your ways.
- Haggai 1:9You expected much, but behold, it amounted to little. And what you brought home, I blew away. Why? declares the LORD of Hosts. Because My house still lies in ruins, while each of you is busy with his own house.
- Haggai 1:14So the LORD stirred the spirit of Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, as well as the spirit of all the remnant of the people. And they came and began the work on the house of the LORD of Hosts, their God,
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Haggai 23 verses
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- Haggai 2:17I struck you—all the work of your hands—with blight, mildew, and hail, but you did not turn to Me, declares the LORD.
- Haggai 2:21“Tell Zerubbabel governor of Judah that I am about to shake the heavens and the earth:
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Deuteronomy 283 verses
- Deuteronomy 28:22The LORD will strike you with wasting disease, with fever and inflammation, with scorching heat and drought, and with blight and mildew; these will pursue you until you perish.
- Deuteronomy 28:23The sky over your head will be bronze, and the earth beneath you iron.
- Deuteronomy 28:38You will sow much seed in the field but harvest little, because the locusts will consume it.
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Ezra 32 verses
- Ezra 3:2Then Jeshua son of Jozadak and his fellow priests, along with Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and his associates, began to build the altar of the God of Israel to sacrifice burnt offerings on it, as it is written in the Law of Moses the man of God.
- Ezra 3:8In the second month of the second year after they had arrived at the house of God in Jerusalem, Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, Jeshua son of Jozadak, and the rest of their associates including the priests, the Levites, and all who had returned to Jerusalem from the captivity, began the work. They appointed Levites twenty years of age or older to supervise the construction of the house of the LORD.
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- Psalms 132:13For the LORD has chosen Zion; He has desired it for His home:
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Ezra 21 verse
- Ezra 2:2accompanied by Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, and Baanah. This is the count of the men of Israel:
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Ezra 41 verse
- Ezra 4:23When the text of the letter from King Artaxerxes was read to Rehum, Shimshai the scribe, and their associates, they went immediately to the Jews in Jerusalem and forcibly stopped them.
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Nehemiah 41 verse
- Nehemiah 4:10Meanwhile, the people of Judah said: “The strength of the laborer fails, and there is so much rubble that we will never be able to rebuild the wall.”
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