Haggai 2:18
in Haggai 2Consider carefully from this day forward—from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, the day the foundation of the LORD’s temple was laid—consider carefully:
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Consider, I pray you, from this day and backward, from the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, since the day that the foundation of Jehovah’s temple was laid, consider it.
KJV
Consider now from this day and upward, from the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, even from the day that the foundation of the Lord’s temple was laid, consider it.
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This verse in Haggai 2
Commentary
9 notes on this verseA commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
Or, translate, "From this day on which the temple is being begun," namely, on the foundations long ago laid [GROTIUS]. MAURER translates, "Consider . . . from the four and twentieth day . . . to (the time which has elapsed) from the day on which the foundation . . . was laid." The Hebrew supports English Version.
This site's exposition
Consider now from this day and upward, from the four and twentieth day of the ninth month
on Haggai 2:18-19
The same call to consider repeats, now dated precisely to the day the temple's foundation was actually laid, and the question turns from past failure to present fact: is the seed yet in the barn, has the vine, the fig tree, the pomegranate, and the olive tree yet brought forth? The crops have not yet ripened when the promise is spoken, which the bench reads as the point, the blessing is dated from this day, not from any harvest already visible, so that when the harvest does come it can be read only as the Lord's answer and not as ordinary seasonal luck. From this day will I bless you closes the oracle on pure futurity, obedience credited before its fruit appears.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers2 voices
I was inflicting various forms of correction on you—sterility, wind, blight, hail—but in your insensitivity you were unaware of the correction. Be mindful of this, then, and take note of the great prosperity you will enjoy after the commencement of the rebuilding, such being the …
(Verse 17 onwards) Now set your hearts from this day and above, before the stone was placed upon stone in the temple of the Lord. When you approached a heap of twenty measures, and it became ten, and you entered the winepress to press out fifty jars, and it became twenty. I struck you with blight and mildew and hail in all the work of your hands, yet you did not return to me, says the Lord.
The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices
Consider now from this day and upward,....
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 fruit-trees do not as yet bud, the vine, and the fig-tree, and the olive-tree, have not as yet brought forth, so that nothing appears to promise a good harvest or vintage next year. Nature does not promise it; but now that you begin to apply in good earnest to your duty, the God of nature promises it; he has said, From this day I will bless you.
2 more voices on this verse
The Nineteenth Century2 voices
Consider now from this day - I will now change my conduct towards you: from, this day that ye have begun heartily to rebuild my temple, and restore my worship, I will bless you. Whatever you sow, whatever you plant, shall be blessed; your land shall be fruitful, and ye shall have abundant crops of all sorts.
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
proposed
From the day that the foundation of the Lord’s house - Zechariah, in a passage corresponding to this, uses the same words Zec 8:9, “the day that the foundation of the house of the Lord of hosts was laid, that the temple might be built,” not of the first foundation, but of the work as resumed in obedience to the words by “the mouth of the prophets,” Haggai and himself, which, Ezra also says, was Ezr 4:24; Ezr 5:1. “in the second year of Darius.” But that work was resumed, not now at the time of this prophecy, but three months before, on the 24th of the sixth month. Since then the word translated here, from, is in no case used of the present time, Haggai gives two dates, the resumption of the work, as marked in these words, and the, actual present. He would then say, that even in these last months, since they had begun the work, there were as yet no signs for the better. There was yet no “seed in the barn,” the harvest having been blighted and the fruit-trees stripped by the hail before the close of the sixth month, when they resumed the work. Yet though there were as yet no signs of change, no earnest that the promise should be fulfilled, God pledges His word, “from this day I will bless you.” Thenceforth, from their obedience, God would give them those fruits of the earth, which in His Providence had been, during their negligence, withheld. “God,” said Paul and Barnabas, Act 14:17. “left not Himself without witness, in that He did good, and gave us rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.” All the Old and New Testament, the Law, the prophets and the Psalms, the Apostles and our Lord Himself, bear witness to the Providence of God who makes His natural laws serve to the moral discipline of His creature, man. […]
The words behind it
19 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| שִׂימוּ־ | simu- | set | H7760 → | 584 times |
| נָ֣א | na' | please | H4994 → | 404 times |
| לְבַבְכֶ֔ם | levavkhem | heart your | H3824 → | 252 times |
| מִן־ | min- | from | H4480 → | 1188 times |
| הַיּ֥וֹם | haiyom | the day | H3117 → | 2304 times |
| הַזֶּ֖ה | hazeh | <the> this | H2088 → | 1180 times |
| וָמָ֑עְלָה | vamaelah | and up -wards | H4605 → | |
| מִיּוֹם֩ | miyom | from day | H3117 → | 2304 times |
| עֶשְׂרִ֨ים | ʾesrim | twenty | H6242 → | 315 times |
| וְאַרְבָּעָ֜ה | vearbaah | and four | H702 → | 318 times |
| לַתְּשִׁיעִ֗י | lateshii | of the ninth [month] | H8671 → | |
| לְמִן־ | lemin- | <to> from | H4480 → | 1188 times |
| הַיּ֛וֹם | haiyom | the day | H3117 → | 2304 times |
| אֲשֶׁר־ | ʾasher- | when | H834 → | 5497 times |
| יֻסַּ֥ד | yusad | it was founded | H3245 → | |
| הֵֽיכַל־ | heikhal- | [the] temple of | H1964 → | |
| יְהוָ֖ה | yahweh | Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
| שִׂ֥ימוּ | simu | set | H7760 → | 584 times |
| לְבַבְכֶֽם׃ | levavkhem | heart your | H3824 → | 252 times |
שִׂימוּ־set
simu-H7760 →584 times
נָ֣אplease
na'H4994 →404 times
לְבַבְכֶ֔םheart your
levavkhemH3824 →252 times
מִן־from
min-H4480 →1188 times
הַיּ֥וֹםthe day
haiyomH3117 →2304 times
הַזֶּ֖ה<the> this
hazehH2088 →1180 times
וָמָ֑עְלָהand up -wards
vamaelahH4605 →
מִיּוֹם֩from day
miyomH3117 →2304 times
עֶשְׂרִ֨יםtwenty
ʾesrimH6242 →315 times
וְאַרְבָּעָ֜הand four
vearbaahH702 →318 times
לַתְּשִׁיעִ֗יof the ninth [month]
lateshiiH8671 →
לְמִן־<to> from
lemin-H4480 →1188 times
הַיּ֛וֹםthe day
haiyomH3117 →2304 times
אֲשֶׁר־when
ʾasher-H834 →5497 times
יֻסַּ֥דit was founded
yusadH3245 →
הֵֽיכַל־[the] temple of
heikhal-H1964 →
יְהוָ֖הYahweh
yahwehH3068 →6520 times
שִׂ֥ימוּset
simuH7760 →584 times
לְבַבְכֶֽם׃heart your
levavkhemH3824 →252 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
Zechariah 8:12“For the seed will be prosperous, the vine will yield its fruit, the ground will yield its produce, and the skies will give their dew. To the remnant of this people I will give…
it leads to
- Leviticus 26:4–5
I will give you rains in their season, and the land will yield its produce, and the trees of the field will bear their fruit.
- Deuteronomy 33:13
Concerning Joseph he said: “May his land be blessed by the LORD with the precious dew from heaven above and the deep waters that lie beneath,
- Genesis 27:28
May God give to you the dew of heaven and the richness of the earth—an abundance of grain and new wine.
- Matthew 6:33
But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added unto you.
- Haggai 2:19
Is there still seed in the barn? The vine, the fig, the pomegranate, and the olive tree have not yet yielded fruit. But from this day on, I will bless you.”
- Leviticus 26:4–5
Through
Haggai 2:15Now consider carefully from this day forward: Before one stone was placed on another in the temple of the LORD,
it leads to
- Haggai 1:5
Now this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Consider carefully your ways.
- Ezra 3:10
When the builders had laid the foundation of the temple of the LORD, the priests in their apparel with trumpets, and the Levites (the sons of Asaph) with cymbals, took their positions to praise…
- Haggai 1:5
Through
Zechariah 8:9This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Let your hands be strong, you who now hear these words spoken by the prophets who were present when the foundations were laid to rebuild the…
it leads to
- Isaiah 35:4
Say to those with anxious hearts: “Be strong, do not fear! Behold, your God will come with vengeance. With divine retribution He will come to save you.”
- Isaiah 35:4
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About Haggai
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jerome, Commentary on Haggai; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Theodoret of Cyrus, COMMENTARY ON HAGGAI 2:10-22.