Haggai 1:12-15

The Effect of Haggai's Eloquence. Work was actually begun at the Temple twenty-three days after the first appeal. The phrase the remnant (apparently editorial), probably has the same sense as in Jeremiah 24:8; Jeremiah 40:11; Jeremiah 40:15; Jeremiah 41:10; Jeremiah 41:16; Jeremiah 42:2; Jeremiah 42:15; Jeremiah 42:19, etc., and denotes those who have not been carried away into exile.