Haggai 2:16
in Haggai 2from that time, when one came expecting a heap of twenty ephahs of grain, there were but ten. When one came to the winepress to draw out fifty baths, there were but twenty.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Through all that time, when one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were but ten; when one came to the winevat to draw out fifty vessels, there were but twenty.
KJV
Since those days were, when one came to an heap of twenty measures, there were but ten: when one came to the pressfat for to draw out fifty vessels out of the press, there were but twenty.
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This verse in Haggai 2
Commentary
7 notes on this verseA commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
Since those days were--from the time that those days of your neglect of the temple work have been. when one came to an heap of twenty measures--that is, to a heap which he had expected would be one of twenty measures, there were but ten. fifty vessels out of the press--As the Septuagint translates "measure," and Vulgate "a flagon," and as we should rather expect vat than press.
This site's exposition
consider from this day and upward, from before a stone was laid
on Haggai 2:15-17
Consider from this day and upward, from before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of the Lord, turns the nation back to its own recent history for the evidence: when one came to a heap expecting twenty measures there were but ten, when one came to the winepress for fifty vessels there were but twenty, the harvest shrinking under the Lord's own hand. I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the labours of your hands, yet ye turned not to me repeats the covenant-curse vocabulary of chapter 1 and echoes the same refrain Amos had used a century earlier of a people disciplined again and again who still would not return (Amos 4:6-11), the bench naming the shared formula.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening4 voices
Note, It is our folly that we are apt to raise our expectation from the creature, and to think tomorrow must needs be as this day and much more abundant, but we are commonly disappointed, and the more we expect the more grievous the disappointment is. In the stores and treasures of the new covenant we need not fear being disappointed when we come by faith to draw from them.
Since - All the while the temple lay neglected. When one came - Men are disappointed half in half. But ten - Which he expected would prove twenty measures, ephahs or bushels.
Since those days were,....
In the third he assures Zerubbabel that, as a reward of his pious zeal and activity herein, he should be a favourite of Heaven, and one of the ancestors of Messiah the Prince, whose kingdom should be set up on the ruins of all opposing powers,
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
Since those days were - I have shown my displeasure against you, by sending blasting and mildew; and so poor have been your crops that a heap of corn which should have produced twenty measures produced only ten; and that quantity of grapes which in other years would have produced fifty measures, through their poverty, smallness, etc., produced only twenty.
The words behind it
15 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| מִֽהְיוֹתָ֥ם | mihyotam | from when were they | H1961 → | 3559 times |
| בָּא֙ | ba' | someone came | H935 → | 2568 times |
| אֶל־ | ʾel- | to | H413 → | 5510 times |
| עֲרֵמַ֣ת | ʾaremat | a heap of | H6194 → | |
| עֶשְׂרִ֔ים | ʾesrim | twenty [measures] | H6242 → | 315 times |
| וְהָיְתָ֖ה | vehayetah | and it was | H1961 → | 3559 times |
| עֲשָׂרָ֑ה | ʾasarah | ten | H6235 → | |
| בָּ֣א | ba' | someone came | H935 → | 2568 times |
| אֶל־ | ʾel- | to | H413 → | 5510 times |
| הַיֶּ֗קֶב | haiyekev | the wine vat | H3342 → | |
| לַחְשֹׂף֙ | lachsof | to draw | H2834 → | |
| חֲמִשִּׁ֣ים | chamishim | fifty [measures] | H2572 → | |
| פּוּרָ֔ה | purah | a winepress | H6333 → | |
| וְהָיְתָ֖ה | vehayetah | and it was | H1961 → | 3559 times |
| עֶשְׂרִֽים׃ | ʾesrim | twenty | H6242 → | 315 times |
מִֽהְיוֹתָ֥םfrom when were they
mihyotamH1961 →3559 times
בָּא֙someone came
ba'H935 →2568 times
אֶל־to
ʾel-H413 →5510 times
עֲרֵמַ֣תa heap of
ʾarematH6194 →
עֶשְׂרִ֔יםtwenty [measures]
ʾesrimH6242 →315 times
וְהָיְתָ֖הand it was
vehayetahH1961 →3559 times
עֲשָׂרָ֑הten
ʾasarahH6235 →
בָּ֣אsomeone came
ba'H935 →2568 times
אֶל־to
ʾel-H413 →5510 times
הַיֶּ֗קֶבthe wine vat
haiyekevH3342 →
לַחְשֹׂף֙to draw
lachsofH2834 →
חֲמִשִּׁ֣יםfifty [measures]
chamishimH2572 →
פּוּרָ֔הa winepress
purahH6333 →
וְהָיְתָ֖הand it was
vehayetahH1961 →3559 times
עֶשְׂרִֽים׃twenty
ʾesrimH6242 →315 times
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 1:6You 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…
it leads to
- Haggai 1:9
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…
- Deuteronomy 28:38–40
You will sow much seed in the field but harvest little, because the locusts will consume it.
- Hosea 4:10
They will eat but not be satisfied; they will be promiscuous but not multiply. For they have stopped obeying the LORD.
- Hosea 8:7
For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. There is no standing grain; what sprouts fails to yield flour. Even if it should produce, the foreigners would swallow it up.
- Malachi 3:9–11
You are cursed with a curse, yet you—the whole nation—are still robbing Me.
- Haggai 1:9
Through
Malachi 2:2If you do not listen, and if you do not take it to heart to honor My name,” says the LORD of Hosts, “I will send a curse among you, and I will curse…
it leads to
- Revelation 14:7
And he said in a loud voice, “Fear God and give Him glory, because the hour of His judgment has come. Worship the One who made the heavens and the earth and the sea…
- Luke 17:18
Was no one found except this foreigner to return and give glory to God?”
- Psalms 81:11–12
But My people would not listen to Me, and Israel would not obey Me.
- Revelation 14:7
Where this verse is studied
About Haggai
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Carl Friedrich Keil, The Twelve Minor Prophets; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; 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.