Haggai 2:10
in Haggai 2On 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,
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
In the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, came the word of Jehovah by Haggai the prophet, saying,
KJV
In the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the Lord by Haggai the prophet, saying,
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This verse in Haggai 2
Commentary
7 notes on this verseIn the four and twentieth day of the ninth month - Three months after they had begun to rebuild the temple, Haggai is ordered to go and put two questions to the priests. 1. If one bear holy flesh in the skirt of his garment, and he touch any thing with his skirt, is that thing made holy? The priests answered, No! Hag 2:12. 2. If one has touched a dead body and thereby become unclean, does he communicate his uncleanness to whatever he may touch? And the priests answered, Yes! Hag 2:13.
This site's exposition
On the twenty-fourth day
on Haggai 2:10-14
Holy meat carried “in the fold of his garment” passes no holiness to the food, while one “defiled by contact with a corpse” defiles it. Haggai applies the ruling to the nation, “whatever they offer there is defiled”, so resumed labor cannot cleanse by contact what needs its own repentance.
This site's exposition
On the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month
Three months after the work resumed, Haggai is sent to put two questions to the priests, as Adam Clarke sets out. The same date returns at verses 18 and 20. Two of the book's four messages fall on it.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers1 voice
(Verse 11 and following). On the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius ((Vulg. adds King)), the word of the Lord came to the prophet Haggai, saying: Thus says the Lord of hosts; ask the priests concerning the law, saying: If a man carries holy flesh in the fold of his garment, and touches bread, or stew, or wine, or oil, or any kind of food, shall it become holy?
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
In the four and twentieth day of the ninth month,....
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
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
four and twentieth day . . . ninth month--three days more than two months from the second prophecy (Hag 2:1); in the month Chisleu, the lunar one about the time of our December.
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How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
On the verses either side of this one
Now ask the priests the Torah Perhaps in exile they forgot the laws of sanctified things, and of impurity and purity.
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. 5 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
13 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| בְּעֶשְׂרִ֤ים | beesrim | on [day] twenty | H6242 → | 315 times |
| וְאַרְבָּעָה֙ | vearbaah | and four | H702 → | 318 times |
| לַתְּשִׁיעִ֔י | lateshii | of the ninth [month] | H8671 → | |
| בִּשְׁנַ֥ת | bishnat | in year | H8141 → | 877 times |
| שְׁתַּ֖יִם | shetayim | two | H8147 → | 768 times |
| לְדָרְיָ֑וֶשׁ | ledareyavesh | of Darius | H1867 → | 10 times |
| הָיָה֙ | hayah | it came | H1961 → | 3559 times |
| דְּבַר־ | devar- | [the] word of | H1697 → | 1440 times |
| יְהוָ֔ה | yahweh | Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
| אֶל־ | ʾel- | to | H413 → | 5510 times |
| חַגַּ֥י | chagai | Haggai | H2292 → | 11 times |
| הַנָּבִ֖יא | hanavi' | the prophet | H5030 → | 314 times |
| לֵאמֹֽר׃ | lemor | <to> saying | H559 → | 5305 times |
בְּעֶשְׂרִ֤יםon [day] twenty
beesrimH6242 →315 times
וְאַרְבָּעָה֙and four
vearbaahH702 →318 times
לַתְּשִׁיעִ֔יof the ninth [month]
lateshiiH8671 →
בִּשְׁנַ֥תin year
bishnatH8141 →877 times
שְׁתַּ֖יִםtwo
shetayimH8147 →768 times
לְדָרְיָ֑וֶשׁof Darius
ledareyaveshH1867 →10 times
הָיָה֙it came
hayahH1961 →3559 times
דְּבַר־[the] word of
devar-H1697 →1440 times
יְהוָ֔הYahweh
yahwehH3068 →6520 times
אֶל־to
ʾel-H413 →5510 times
חַגַּ֥יHaggai
chagaiH2292 →11 times
הַנָּבִ֖יאthe prophet
hanavi'H5030 →314 times
לֵאמֹֽר׃<to> saying
lemorH559 →5305 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 1:1In 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 3:2
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,…
- 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…
- 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 1:15on the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month, in the second year of King Darius.
it leads to
- 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…
- Haggai 2:1
On the twenty-first day of the seventh month, the word of the LORD came through Haggai the prophet, saying:
- 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,
- Haggai 1:1
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; 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) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.