Haggai 2:17
in Haggai 2I struck you—all the work of your hands—with blight, mildew, and hail, but you did not turn to Me, declares the LORD.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the work of your hands; yet ye turned not to me, saith Jehovah.
KJV
I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the labours of your hands; yet ye turned not to me, saith the Lord.
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This verse in Haggai 2
Commentary
8 notes on this verseA commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
I smote you with blasting and mildew, - two diseases of grain, which Moses had foretold Deu 28:27. as chastisements on disobedience and God’s infliction, of which Amos had spoken in these self-same words. Amo 4:9. Haggai adds the hail, as destructive of the vines. Psa 78:47. Yet (And) ye turned you not to Me literally “there were none” - your, (accusative i. e., who turned you unto Me. The words are elliptical, but express the entire absence of conversion, of any who turned to God.
This site's exposition
consider carefully from this day forward
on Haggai 2:15-17
The nation is sent back to the time “Before one stone was placed on another in the temple of the LORD”. The LORD struck them “with blight, mildew, and hail, but you did not turn to Me”, the refrain Amos 4:6 to 11 had used.
This site's exposition
with blight, mildew, and hail
Blight and mildew are two diseases of grain named among the curses at Deuteronomy 28:22, and Amos 4:9 uses the same pair. Albert Barnes notes that Haggai adds hail, which destroys vines. Jamieson, Fausset and Brown note that the Hebrew of the last clause leaves its verb unspoken.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers1 voice
(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
But this people either saw not the hand of God in it (imputing it to chance) or saw not their own sin as the provoking cause of it, and therefore turned not to him. They were a long time incorrigible and unhumbled under these rebukes, so that God's hand was stretched out still, for the people turned not to him that smote them, Isa. ix.
I smote you with blasting,....
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)
Appropriated from Am 4:9, whose canonicity is thus sealed by Haggai's inspired authority; in the last clause, "turned," however, has to be supplied, its omission marking by the elliptical abruptness ("yet ye not to Me!") God's displeasure.
The words behind it
14 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| הִכֵּ֨יתִי | hikeiti | I struck | H5221 → | |
| אֶתְכֶ֜ם | ʾetkhem | <obj.> you | H853 → | 10935 times |
| בַּשִּׁדָּפ֤וֹן | bashidafon | with <the> blight | H7711 → | |
| וּבַיֵּֽרָקוֹן֙ | uvaiyerakon | and with <the> mildew | H3420 → | |
| וּבַבָּרָ֔ד | uvabarad | and with <the> hail | H1259 → | |
| אֵ֖ת | ʾet | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| כָּל־ | kol- | all | H3605 → | 5413 times |
| מַעֲשֵׂ֣ה | maaseh | [the] work of | H4639 → | |
| יְדֵיכֶ֑ם | yedeikhem | hands your | H3027 → | 1618 times |
| וְאֵין־ | veein- | and not | H369 → | 789 times |
| אֶתְכֶ֥ם | ʾetkhem | <obj.> you | H853 → | 10935 times |
| אֵלַ֖י | ʾelai | to me | H413 → | 5510 times |
| נְאֻם־ | neum- | [the] utterance of | H5002 → | 376 times |
| יְהוָֽה׃ | yahweh | Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
הִכֵּ֨יתִיI struck
hikeitiH5221 →
אֶתְכֶ֜ם<obj.> you
ʾetkhemH853 →10935 times
בַּשִּׁדָּפ֤וֹןwith <the> blight
bashidafonH7711 →
וּבַיֵּֽרָקוֹן֙and with <the> mildew
uvaiyerakonH3420 →
וּבַבָּרָ֔דand with <the> hail
uvabaradH1259 →
אֵ֖ת<obj.>
ʾetH853 →10935 times
כָּל־all
kol-H3605 →5413 times
מַעֲשֵׂ֣ה[the] work of
maasehH4639 →
יְדֵיכֶ֑םhands your
yedeikhemH3027 →1618 times
וְאֵין־and not
veein-H369 →789 times
אֶתְכֶ֥ם<obj.> you
ʾetkhemH853 →10935 times
אֵלַ֖יto me
ʾelaiH413 →5510 times
נְאֻם־[the] utterance of
neum-H5002 →376 times
יְהוָֽה׃Yahweh
yahwehH3068 →6520 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
Deuteronomy 28:22The LORD will strike you with wasting disease, with fever and inflammation, with scorching heat and drought, and with blight and mildew; these will pursue you until you perish.
it leads to
- Leviticus 26:16
then this is what I will do to you: I will bring upon you sudden terror, wasting disease, and fever that will destroy your sight and drain your life. You will sow your seed…
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Amos 4:9
“I struck you with blight and mildew in your growing gardens and vineyards; the locust devoured your fig and olive trees, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.
- 1 Kings 8:37
When famine or plague comes upon the land, or blight or mildew or locusts or grasshoppers, or when their enemy besieges them in their cities, whatever plague or sickness may come,
- Leviticus 26:16
Through
Haggai 1:9You 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…
it leads to
- Haggai 1:4
“Is it a time for you yourselves to live in your paneled houses, while this house lies in ruins?”
- Malachi 2:2
If 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…
- Revelation 3:19
Those I love, I rebuke and discipline. Therefore be earnest and repent.
- Haggai 2:16–17
from 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.
- Haggai 1:4
Through
1 Kings 8:37When famine or plague comes upon the land, or blight or mildew or locusts or grasshoppers, or when their enemy besieges them in their cities, whatever plague or sickness may come,
it leads to
- Deuteronomy 28:21–22
The LORD will make the plague cling to you until He has exterminated you from the land that you are entering to possess.
- Deuteronomy 28:21–22
Where this verse is studied
About Haggai
This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); 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; Jerome, Commentary on Haggai; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.