Haggai 1:2-11

Haggai 1:2. Read mg.

Haggai 1:3. is a superfluous editorial addition.

Haggai 1:4. A cieled house was one lined with timber, ordinary houses being left as rough inside as outside. This house means the whole Temple area, as is evident from Haggai 1:14; Haggai 2:3.

Haggai 1:5. Consider your ways: means take notice of your experiences. In Haggai 1:5 Haggai exhorts the people to reflect on their past experiences (described in Haggai 1:6) and in Haggai 1:7 on what will be the experiences of the future, viz. the greater prosperity which will result from the building of the Temple. In the past, hopes have always been disappointed, and the Lord has blown upon, i.e. bewitched the produce of the land.

Haggai 1:7 f. should be placed after Haggai 1:11.