Haggai 1:15
in Haggai 1on the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month, in the second year of King Darius.
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ASV
in the four and twentieth day of the month, in the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king.
KJV
In the four and twentieth day of the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king.
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This verse in Haggai 1
Commentary
7 notes on this verseA commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
In the four and twentieth day of the month - The interval of twenty-three days must have been spent in preparation, since the message came on the first of the month, and the obedience was immediate.
This site's exposition
the Lord stirred up the spirit
on Haggai 1:14-15
The chapter closes on the source of the obedience just recorded: the Lord stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel, the spirit of Joshua, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people, so that they came and did work in the house of the Lord of hosts. The bench reads the stirring as prevenient, the Lord moving the will before the will moves the hands, the same verb used of Cyrus at Ezra 1:1 and 5. The date closes the chapter exactly as it opened it, the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month, twenty-three days after the first oracle, marking how short a span stood between the rebuke and the resumed work.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening4 voices
Note, Those that have lost time have need to redeem time; and the longer we have loitered in that which is good the more haste we should make when we are convinced of our folly. How God met them in a way of mercy.
5 ); for, though God makes use of prophets, he needs them not, he can do his work without them. But the lamp of Old-Testament prophecy shall yet make some bright and glorious efforts before it expire; and Haggai is the first that appears under the character of a special messenger from heaven, when the word of the Lord had been long precious (as when prophecy began, 1 Sam. iii.
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Ye run - You with eagerness carry on your own particular buildings. Is stayed - God hath forbidden them, to drop down dew. Upon men - The very blood, and constitutions of men were changed, and many diseases afflicted them.
In the four and twentieth day of the sixth month,.... Or, "in the four and twentieth of the month, in the sixth"; in that sixth month before mentioned, Hag 1:
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
In the four and twentieth day - Haggai received his commission on the first day of this month and by the twenty-fourth day he had so completely succeeded that he had the satisfaction to see the whole people engaged heartily in the Lord’s work; they left their own houses to build that of the Lord. Here was a faithful reprover, and he found obedient ears; and the Lord’s work was done, for the people had a mind to work.
How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
On the verses either side of this one
and they came and performed labor They commenced cutting stones and sawing trees in the sixth month, on the twenty fourth of the month; and in the seventh month, on the twenty-first day, the word of the Lord came to Haggai.
This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.
Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 4 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.
The words behind it
9 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| בְּי֨וֹם | beyom | on day | H3117 → | 2304 times |
| עֶשְׂרִ֧ים | ʾesrim | twenty | H6242 → | 315 times |
| וְאַרְבָּעָ֛ה | vearbaah | and four | H702 → | 318 times |
| לַחֹ֖דֶשׁ | lachodesh | of the month | H2320 → | 284 times |
| בַּשִּׁשִּׁ֑י | bashishi | in the sixth [month] | H8345 → | |
| בִּשְׁנַ֥ת | bishnat | in year | H8141 → | 877 times |
| שְׁתַּ֖יִם | shetayim | two | H8147 → | 768 times |
| לְדָרְיָ֥וֶשׁ | ledareyavesh | of Darius | H1867 → | 10 times |
| הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃ | hamelekh | the king | H4428 → |
בְּי֨וֹםon day
beyomH3117 →2304 times
עֶשְׂרִ֧יםtwenty
ʾesrimH6242 →315 times
וְאַרְבָּעָ֛הand four
vearbaahH702 →318 times
לַחֹ֖דֶשׁof the month
lachodeshH2320 →284 times
בַּשִּׁשִּׁ֑יin the sixth [month]
bashishiH8345 →
בִּשְׁנַ֥תin year
bishnatH8141 →877 times
שְׁתַּ֖יִםtwo
shetayimH8147 →768 times
לְדָרְיָ֥וֶשׁof Darius
ledareyaveshH1867 →10 times
הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃the king
hamelekhH4428 →
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Haggai 2:10On the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of the LORD came to Haggai the prophet, saying,
it leads to
- Haggai 2:20
For the second time that day, the twenty-fourth day of the month, the word of the LORD came to Haggai, saying,
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Haggai 1:1
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…
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Haggai 2:20
Through
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…
it leads to
- Ezra 2:2
accompanied by Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, and Baanah. This is the count of the men of Israel:
- Ezra 3:8
In 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…
- Ezra 3:2
Then 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,…
- Haggai 1:12
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…
- Nehemiah 7:7
accompanied by Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, and Baanah. This is the count of the men of Israel:
- Ezra 2:2
Through
Haggai 2:1On the twenty-first day of the seventh month, the word of the LORD came through Haggai the prophet, saying:
it leads to
- 2 Peter 1:21
For no such prophecy was ever brought forth by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.
- 2 Peter 1:21
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Carl Friedrich Keil, The Twelve Minor Prophets; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.