Haggai 1:4 KJV — MannaFest

Haggai 1:4

Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house lie waste?

KJV

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ASV

Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your ceiled houses, while this house lieth waste?

WEB

“Is it a time for you yourselves to live in your paneled houses, while this house lies in ruins?”

YLT

Is it time for you--you! To dwell in your covered houses, And this house to lie waste?

DBT

Is it time for you that ye should dwell in your wainscoted houses, while this house lieth waste?

About this book

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Haggai — Two chapters prodding the returned exiles back to the Temple project. Four dated oracles in one year — short, sharp, and effective.

Author: Haggai the prophet (1:1)
Date: The second year of Darius (520 BC); four oracles across three months

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29 verses on the floor

Proverbs 3:9
Honour the Lord with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase:
2 Samuel 7:2
That the king said unto Nathan the prophet, See now, I dwell in an house of cedar, but the ark of God dwelleth within curtains.
Psalms 132:3–5
Surely I will not come into the tabernacle of my house, nor go up into my bed;
Philippians 2:21
For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ’s.
Haggai 1:9
Ye looked for much, and, lo, it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the Lord of hosts. Because of mine house that is waste, and ye run every man unto his own house.

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"It is high time," says one, "that my house were wainscoted." "It is high time," says another, "that mine were painted." And God's house, all this time, lies waste, and nothing is done at it.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

The good success of this sermon, appearing in the people's return and close application to that work, wherein the prophet, in God's name, animated and encouraged them, assuring them that God was with them,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Is it time--It is not time (Hag 1:2), ye say, to build Jehovah's house; yet how is it that ye make it a fit time not only to build, but to "dwell" at ease in your own houses? you, O ye--rather, for "you, you"; the repetition marking the shameful contrast between their concern for themselves, and their unconcern for God [MAURER].

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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