Haggai 2:19
in Haggai 2Is 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.”
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Is the seed yet in the barn? yea, the vine, and the fig-tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive-tree have not brought forth; from this day will I bless you.
KJV
Is the seed yet in the barn? yea, as yet the vine, and the fig tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive tree, hath not brought forth: from this day will I bless you.
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This verse in Haggai 2
Commentary
10 notes on this verseA commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
Thus it will be made evident that the blessing is due to Me, not to nature. We may trust God's promise to bless us, though we see no visible sign of its fulfilment (Hab 2:3). God's promise through Zerubbabel to Israel of safety in the coming commotions.
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 19, 20.) Set your hearts from this day forward, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, from the day on which the foundation of the Lord's temple was laid, set it on your hearts. Is the seed still in the barn? And yet the fig tree, the vine, the pomegranate, and the olive tree have not yielded fruit. From this day on I will bless you.
The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices
Is the seed - Your seed for the next harvest is yet in your barns. Hath not brought forth - No sign yet appears what vintage you shall have, what store of wine, oil, figs, and pomegranates.
Is the seed yet in the barn?....
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,
3 more voices on this verse
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
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.
The Nineteenth Century2 voices
A commentator
Charles Spurgeon1834–1892
The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 3073: “Thrice Happy Day!” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition) · Written before 1892.
proposed
(THE NEW YEAR, THE FIRST SABBATH AND THE TIME OF BLESSING) PUBLISHED ON THURSDAY, JANUARY 2, 1908. DELIVERED BY C. H. SPURGEON, AT THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE, NEWINGTON, ON LORD'S-DAY EVENING, JANUARY 1, 1865. "From this day will I bless you." Haggai 2:19. I THINK as soon as ever I read that promise, your heart would leap towards it and you would spontaneously say, "Lord, be this the day—the first day of the year, and that day the Lord's Day—make this the day from which You will begin to bless me in a very special manner!"
A commentator
Charles Spurgeon1834–1892
The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 3073: “Thrice Happy Day!” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition) · Written before 1892.
proposed
(THE NEW YEAR, THE FIRST SABBATH AND THE TIME OF BLESSING) PUBLISHED ON THURSDAY, JANUARY 2, 1908. DELIVERED BY C. H. SPURGEON, AT THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE, NEWINGTON, ON LORD'S-DAY EVENING, JANUARY 1, 1865. "From this day will I bless you." Haggai 2:19. I THINK as soon as ever I read that promise, your heart would leap towards it and you would spontaneously say, "Lord, be this the day—the first day of the year, and that day the Lord's Day—make this the day from which You will begin to bless me in a very special manner!" God's blessing is the richest gift which His creatures can receive. To be deprived of it is their greatest calamity! What is Hell? It is the place where God's blessing cannot come. What is Heaven? It is the place where God's blessing is constantly enjoyed without admixture. My God, were there a choice between Your blessing and Heaven, I would sooner choose Your blessing and be out of Heaven, than be in Heaven, if such a thing were possible, unblessed of my God. The highest happiness of a creature is to be blessed by its Creator—and the very highest felicity of the child of God is to have his Father's blessing on his head and in his heart! In a certain sense, dear Friends, we cannot tell the time when God began to bless His people. If you go back to the day before all days, when there was no day but the Ancient of Days. If you get back to the time when there was no time, when only eternity existed, you find, in the council chambers of Divinity, that God was blessing His people.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| הַע֤וֹד | haod | ¿ still | H5750 → | |
| הַזֶּ֙רַע֙ | hazera' | [is] the seed | H2233 → | |
| בַּמְּגוּרָ֔ה | bamegurah | in the granary | H4035 → | |
| וְעַד־ | vead- | and to | H5704 → | |
| הַגֶּ֨פֶן | hagefen | the vine | H1612 → | |
| וְהַתְּאֵנָ֧ה | vehateenah | and the fig tree | H8384 → | |
| וְהָרִמּ֛וֹן | veharimon | and the pomegranate | H7416 → | |
| וְעֵ֥ץ | veetz | and [the] tree of | H6086 → | |
| הַזַּ֖יִת | hazayit | the olive | H2132 → | |
| לֹ֣א | lo' | not | H3808 → | 5168 times |
| נָשָׂ֑א | nasa' | it has borne [fruit] | H5375 → | |
| מִן־ | min- | from | H4480 → | 1188 times |
| הַיּ֥וֹם | haiyom | the day | H3117 → | 2304 times |
| הַזֶּ֖ה | hazeh | <the> this | H2088 → | 1180 times |
| אֲבָרֵֽךְ׃ ס | ʾavarekh | I will bless | H1288 → |
הַע֤וֹד¿ still
haodH5750 →
הַזֶּ֙רַע֙[is] the seed
hazera'H2233 →
בַּמְּגוּרָ֔הin the granary
bamegurahH4035 →
וְעַד־and to
vead-H5704 →
הַגֶּ֨פֶןthe vine
hagefenH1612 →
וְהַתְּאֵנָ֧הand the fig tree
vehateenahH8384 →
וְהָרִמּ֛וֹןand the pomegranate
veharimonH7416 →
וְעֵ֥ץand [the] tree of
veetzH6086 →
הַזַּ֖יִתthe olive
hazayitH2132 →
לֹ֣אnot
lo'H3808 →5168 times
נָשָׂ֑אit has borne [fruit]
nasa'H5375 →
מִן־from
min-H4480 →1188 times
הַיּ֥וֹםthe day
haiyomH3117 →2304 times
הַזֶּ֖ה<the> this
hazehH2088 →1180 times
אֲבָרֵֽךְ׃ סI will bless
ʾavarekhH1288 →
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
Matthew 6:33But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added unto you.
it leads to
- Luke 12:31
But seek His kingdom, and these things will be added unto you.
- Matthew 5:6
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.
- John 6:27
Do not work for food that perishes, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For on Him God the Father has placed His seal of…
- Psalms 34:9–10
Fear the LORD, you His saints, for those who fear Him lack nothing.
- Psalms 84:11–12
For the LORD God is a sun and a shield; the LORD gives grace and glory; He withholds no good thing from those who walk with integrity.
- Luke 12:31
Through
Malachi 3:10Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in My house. Test Me in this,” says the LORD of Hosts. “See if I will not open the windows of…
it leads to
- 2 Corinthians 9:6–8
Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously.
- Matthew 6:33
But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added unto you.
- Proverbs 3:9–10
Honor the LORD with your wealth and with the firstfruits of all your harvest;
- 2 Corinthians 9:6–8
Where this verse is studied
About Haggai
This page draws on Charles Spurgeon, The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 3073: “Thrice Happy Day!” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition); 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); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament; Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Theodoret of Cyrus, COMMENTARY ON HAGGAI 2:10-22.