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Verse 5. _CONSIDER YOUR WAYS_] Is it fit that you should be building
yourselves _elegant houses_, and neglect a _place_ for the _worship_
of that God who has restored you from captivity?...
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And now, thus saith the Lord of hosts; “Consider,” (literally
“set your heart upon) your ways,” what they had been doing, what
they were doing, and what those doings had led to, and would lead to.
Thi...
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ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS
CHAPTER 1:1-11 Haggai's First Address
_ 1. The introduction (Habakkuk 1:1) _
2. The reproof (Habakkuk 1:2)
3. Consider your ways (Habakkuk 1:7)...
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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...
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CONSIDER. Set your heart on, or give your attention to. Occurs five
times. this hook (Haggai 1:5; Haggai 1:7; Haggai 2:15; Haggai 2:18;...
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_Consider_ Lit. SET YOUR HEART UPON, consider both their nature and
(as what follows shews) their consequences; both what they are and to
what they lead. The expression _consider_, set your heart, is...
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_GREED HAS AWFUL EFFECTS -- HAGGAI 1:1-6:_ If we are greedy for things
it takes us away from God. Greed also leads to pride. Greed caused the
people to push God down to a place of lesser importance in...
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DISCOURSE: 1233
CONSIDERATION OF OUR WAYS ENFORCED
Haggai 1:2; Haggai 1:12. Thus speaketh the Lord of Hosts, saying, This
people say, The time is not come, the time that the Lord’s house
should be bui...
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CHAPTER XXIV
EXPOSITION OF HAGGAI
THE FIRST MESSAGE. Haggai 1:1-15
RV. In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the
first day of the month, came the word of Jehovah by Haggai th...
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Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.
NOW THEREFORE THUS SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS; CONSIDER YOUR WAYS -
literally, Set your heart on your ways. The plural implies, Consider...
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1:5 Consider (k-8) Lit. 'Set your heart on.' so ch. 2.15,18, 'set your
heart.'...
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A CALL TO BEGIN BUILDING THE TEMPLE
1-11. Haggai repeatedly urges the leaders of Judah and the people to
bend their energies to the rebuilding of the ruined Temple (August,
520 b.c.)....
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CONSIDER YOUR WAYS] lit. 'Set your heart on your ways,' i.e. consider
thoughtfully the situation in which you find yourselves. An appeal
made four times by the prophet....
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NEVER *GIVE UP!
HAGGAI
_GORDON CHURCHYARD_
THE STORY OF HAGGAI
The *Jews did not obey God. He sent them into exile. This was 587
B.C. (B.C. means years Before Christ came to earth.) Exile means t...
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CONSIDER YOUR WAYS. — A common expression in this prophet. The
results of their conduct are set forth in Haggai 1:6 : they are left
to infer from these what its nature has been....
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HAGGAI AND THE BUILDING OF THE TEMPLE
Haggai 1:1; Haggai 2:1
WE have seen that the most probable solution of the problems presented
to us by the inadequate and confused records of the time is that a...
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SELFISH AND SHORTSIGHTED THRIFT
Haggai 1:1-11
Zerubbabel is the Sheshbazzar of Ezra 1:8. He was of the royal line,
and appointed governor by Cyrus. Josedech was son of Seraiah, high
priest when Jeru...
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The prophet Haggai delivered his first message on the first day of the
sixth month in the second year of the reign of Darius. It was
addressed especially to those in authority. The people were excusin...
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_Ways. Sound the real motives of your neglect. (Haydock) --- See if
your misfortunes do not originate in this cause, and if God does not
require you to build the temple, ver. 9. (Calmet)_...
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"Then came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet, saying, (4) Is
it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your ceiled houses, and this house
lie waste? (5) Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; C...
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Lectures on the Minor Prophets.
W. Kelly.
The prophet Haggai is the first of those who followed the captivity.
There is great simplicity in his testimony. Nevertheless we shall find
the Spirit of Chr...
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_THE CALL TO THE CHURCH_
‘Consider your ways.’
Haggai 1:5
Haggai was the first prophet who rose up in the midst of the
congregation of Judah, after his return from Babylon, to declare to it
the wil...
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Here the Prophet deals with the refractory people according to what
their character required; for as to those who are teachable and
obedient, a word is enough for them; but they who are perversely
add...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 1 AND 2.
The last three prophets prophesied after the Babylonish captivity.
God, as we have seen in the books of Ezra and Nehemiah, brought back a
small remna...
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NOW THEREFORE THUS SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS,.... The Lord God
omniscient and omnipotent, that saw all their actions, and could
punish for them; since they were so careful of their own houses, and
adorn...
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Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.
Ver. 5. _Now therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts_] Haggai was but
a young man, saith Epiphanius: now, therefore, lest any one that h...
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_Therefore consider your ways_ Reflect seriously upon this affair,
whether it is consistent with the reason of things, or whether you
have even promoted your own happiness by it as you thought to do....
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Now, therefore, thus saith the Lord of hosts, Consider your ways,
literally, "Set your hearts upon your ways," contemplating the
consequences of their late behavior and upon the manner in which the
Lo...
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THE INDIFFERENCE OF THE PEOPLE REBUKED.
When the exiles, under the leadership of Zerubbabel and Joshua, had
returned to Jerusalem, they had begun the work of rebuilding the
Temple with great eagerness...
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CONSIDER YOUR WAYS:
_ Heb._ set your heart on your ways...
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1-11 Observe the sin of the Jews, after their return from captivity
in Babylon. Those employed for God may be driven from their work by a
storm, yet they must go back to it. They did not say that the...
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NOW THEREFORE; or, AND NOW, or, _But now_, Heb.; it is time for you to
consider, to set your heart to that I propose. THUS SAITH THE LORD OF
HOSTS; the great God speaks, hearken therefore. CONSIDER YO...
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Haggai 1:5 says H559 (H8804) LORD H3068 hosts H6635 Consider H7760
(H8798) H3824 ways H1870
thus -...
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YHWH'S GRIEVANCE WITH HIS PEOPLE (HAGGAI 1:2).
In a series of consecutive prophecies YHWH's grievance with His people
is established, and the call comes to build the Temple. For YHWH knows
that until...
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Haggai 1:1. _In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth
month, in the first day of the month, came the word of the LORD by
Haggai the prophet unto Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of...
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The subject is the building of the second temple. The people had been
busily employed in building their own houses some of them had gone to
great expense and much labour upon these houses, but they ha...
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CONTENTS: Jehovah's chastening because of the interrupted work on His
house. The work on the temple recommenced.
CHARACTERS: God, Darius, Haggai, Zerubbabel, Joshua.
CONCLUSION: Those are strangers t...
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Haggai 1:1. _Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, the governor,_ or Pacha,
_of_ _Judah._ King Jeconiah was father of Salathiel, as the word is
written in 1 Chronicles 3:17; and Pedaiah was father of Zerub...
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_Now, therefore, thus saith the Lord of hosts, Consider your ways._
PREPARATION FOR SELF-AMENDMENT
The design of this prophecy is to persuade the Jews off from that
slothful security in the neglect o...
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HAGGAI—NOTE ON HAGGAI 1:3 Consider Your Ways: Fruitless Prosperity.
In this second word to Haggai, the Lord asks his people to consider
whether their wealth brings satisfaction. He encourages them to...
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CRITICAL NOTES.]
Haggai 1:5. Consider] Lit. _set your heart upon;_ i.e. consider your
conduct and lay it to heart: a frequent formula with Haggai (cf.
Haggai 1:7; ch. Haggai 2:15;...
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EXPOSITION
HAGGAI 1:1
Part I. THE FIRST ADDRESS: EXHORTATION TO BUILD THE TEMPLE AND ITS
RESULT....
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Haggai
Then we go to Haggai who prophesied in the second year of Darius the
king. This is not the Darius of Daniel's fame who was the Persian
general when Babylon fell, but this is a Darius who came a...
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2 Corinthians 13:5; Daniel 10:12; Daniel 6:14; Exodus 7:23; Exodus
9:21
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A BIRD'S-EYE VIEW OF HAGGAI
_ Haggai_
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
The book of Haggi opens with the building of the Lord's house. In this
the Lord's people had lagged behind. The second chapter is a great
pr...