Haggai 2:14 BSB — MannaFest

Haggai 2:14

Then Haggai replied, “So it is with this people and this nation before Me, declares the LORD, and so it is with every work of their hands; whatever they offer there is defiled.

BSB

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ASV

Then answered Haggai and said, So is this people, and so is this nation before me, saith Jehovah; and so is every work of their hands; and that which they offer there is unclean.

KJV

Then answered Haggai, and said, So is this people, and so is this nation before me, saith the Lord; and so is every work of their hands; and that which they offer there is unclean.

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Commentary

4 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Then answered Haggai - So is this people - As an unclean man communicates his uncleanness to every thing he touches, so are ye unclean; and whatever ye have hitherto done is polluted in the sight of God. For your neglect of my temple has made you unclean, as if you had contracted legal pollution by touching a dead body.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

So - Polluted persons, touching what is clean, pollute it, so polluted Jews, polluted God's ordinances, while the outward performing of legal duties, left them as unholy in themselves, as they were before: somewhat more then is to be done. The soul is first to be purified, that they and we may offer up a pure offering.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 2495: “Defiled and Defiling” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition) (1896)

THE Prophet Haggai very wisely drew out from the priests a definite answer to certain questions which he put to them. Then, upon their authority, he could say to the people, "This is what your own priests say and this is what you, yourselves, believe." This was taking them by a kind of sacred guile and it was a powerful means of forcing home the Truth of God to their heart and conscience.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

This all applies to them as they had been, not as they are now that they have begun to obey; the design is to guard them against falling back again. The "there" points to the altar, probably in view of the audience which the prophet addressed.

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Original language & word study

21 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיַּ֨עַן	vai.Ya.'an	and he answered	H6030 →
חַגַּ֜י	cha.Gai	Haggai	H2292 →
וַיֹּ֗אמֶר	vai.Yo.mer	and he said	H559 →
כֵּ֣ן	ken	[is] thus	H3651 →
הָֽעָם־	ha.'om-	the people	H5971 →
הַ֠זֶּה	Ha.zeh	<the> this	H2088 →
וְכֵן־	ve.khen-	and [is] thus	H3651 →
הַגּ֨וֹי	ha.Goy	the nation	H1471 →
הַזֶּ֤ה	ha.Zeh	<the> this	H2088 →
לְפָנַי֙	le.fa.Nai	<to> before me	H6440 →
נְאֻם־	ne.'um-	[the] utterance of	H5002 →
יְהוָ֔ה	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
וְכֵ֖ן	ve.Khen	and [is] thus	H3651 →
כָּל־	kol-	all	H3605 →
מַעֲשֵׂ֣ה	ma.'a.Seh	[the] work of	H4639 →
יְדֵיהֶ֑ם	ye.dei.Hem	hands their	H3027 →
וַאֲשֶׁ֥ר	va.'a.Sher	and [that] which	H834 →
יַקְרִ֛יבוּ	yak.Ri.vu	they will bring near	H7126 →
שָׁ֖ם	sham	there	H8033 →
טָמֵ֥א	ta.Me'	[is] unclean	H2931 →
הֽוּא׃	Hu'	it	H1931 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Proverbs 28:9
Whoever turns his ear away from hearing the law, even his prayer is detestable.
leads to
- Psalms 66:18
  If I had cherished iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not have listened.
- 2 Timothy 4:3–4
  For the time will come when men will not tolerate sound doctrine, but with itching ears they will gather around themselves teachers to suit their own desires.
- Zechariah 7:11–13
  But they refused to pay attention and turned a stubborn shoulder; they stopped up their ears from hearing.
- Proverbs 15:8
  The sacrifice of the wicked is detestable to the LORD, but the prayer of the upright is His delight.
- Psalms 109:7
  When he is tried, let him be found guilty, and may his prayer be regarded as sin.
Through
Proverbs 15:8
The sacrifice of the wicked is detestable to the LORD, but the prayer of the upright is His delight.
leads to
- Proverbs 15:29
  The LORD is far from the wicked, but He hears the prayer of the righteous.
Through
Titus 1:15
To the pure, all things are pure; but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure. Indeed, both their minds and their consciences are defiled.
leads to
- Romans 14:14
  I am convinced and fully persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself. But if anyone regards something as unclean, then for him it is unclean.
- Romans 14:20
  Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All food is clean, but it is wrong for a man to let his eating be a stumbling block.