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AND NOW, I PRAY YOU - Observe his tenderness, in drawing their
attention to it , “Consider from this day and upward.” He bids
them look backward, “from before a stone was laid upon a stone,”
i. e., fr...
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CHAPTER 2:10-19
The Fourth Address
A few months later Haggai delivered another address of moral
instruction and admonition. The question the prophet asks first is
answered by the priests negatively....
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HAGGAI'S SERMON ON DEC. 24. Haggai bases his exhortation on a
pronouncement of the priests concerning the infecting power of
holiness and uncleanness respectively. In the question put to the
priests,...
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CONSIDER. See note on Haggai 1:5.
FROM THIS DAY. The day of the prophet's message.
UPWARD. above, as to place; backward, as regards time; as explained.
Referring to past time, before the foundation...
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The A.V. is a little obscure. The verse may be rendered more clearly
thus:
AND NOW CONSIDER, I PRAY YON, FROM THIS DAY (the 24th day of the ninth
month, on which the prophet was speaking, ver. 10 18)...
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The Third Prophecy
By a reference to the ceremonial law, as officially interpreted by
the priests in answer to questions addressed to them, Haggai again
impresses upon the people the truth, that the...
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The great moral lesson of the Book is again inculcated. Let them fix
their attention on the long period of their neglect of God and His
House; the eighteen years that had intervened, between the layin...
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_UNFAITHFULNESS ALWAYS REAPS SAD REWARDS -- HAGGAI 2:15-19:_ The
people needed to remember that before they began to rebuild he Temple
that they had been disobedient to God. God punished their disobed...
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THE THIRD MESSAGE. Haggai 2:10-19
RV. In the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, in the second
year of Darius, came the word of Jehovah by Haggai the prophet,
saying, Thus saith Jehovah of host...
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In the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, in the second year
of Darius, came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet, saying,
Sacrifices without obedience (in respect to God's command to...
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2:15 consider (b-6) Lit. 'set your heart.' onward, (c-11) Lit.
'upward;' and so ver. 18. Some take it as meaning 'backward' in ver.
15....
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Words of Encouragement. The Glory of the Second Temple
1-9. An encouraging message in counteraction of disparaging comments
upon the Temple structure, setting forth the significance and glory of
t...
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FROM THIS DAY AND UPWARD] better, 'and onward.' He then bids them
think of their past sufferings and resumes the thought here begun in
Haggai 2:18. There should be a full stop after UPWARD. FROM BEFOR...
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NEVER *GIVE UP!
HAGGAI
_GORDON CHURCHYARD_
CHAPTER 2
V1 On 17 October the *LORD spoke to Haggai the *prophet. He said, V2
‘Speak now to:
• Zerubbabel; he is leader of Judah and son of Shealtiel...
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(10-19) _The Fourth Utterance. — _The recent season of scarcity is
again accounted for and immediate blessings are announced. This
address dates about two months later than its predecessor — viz.,
fro...
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FROM THIS DAY AND UPWARD — _i.e.,_ backward.
BEFORE A STONE WAS LAID... — Alluding to the recent resumption of
building, not to the laying of the foundations fifteen years
previously....
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3. THE POWER OF THE UNCLEAN
Haggai 2:10
Haggai's third address to the people is based on a deliverance which
he seeks from the priests. The Book of Deuteronomy had provided that,
in all difficult cas...
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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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GOD'S JUDGMENT UPON THE NATIONS
Haggai 2:10-23
Two months after the foregoing prophecy, the prophet again
remonstrated with the people for still neglecting the Temple, though
they appear to have main...
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About seven weeks later Haggai delivered his second message. This was
addressed to Zerubbabel the governor, Joshua the priest, and all the
people. A comparison of Ezr 3:13 with this message will show...
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And now, I pray you, consider from this (h) day and upward, from
before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of the LORD:
(h) Consider how God plagued you with famine before you began to build...
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So. He makes the application of the second answer given, ver. 14. All
your victims have hitherto been contaminated. I redressed not your
miseries. But now, as you have begun to work at my temple, I wi...
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"In the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, in the second year
of Darius, came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet, saying,
(11) Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Ask now the priests concern...
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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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I am under the necessity of joining all these verses together, for the
Prophet treats of the same thing: and the import of the whole is
this—that the Lord had then openly punished the tardiness of the...
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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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AND NOW, I PRAY YOU, CONSIDER FROM THIS DAY AND UPWARD,.... This being
their case, and they so polluted with sin, particularly through their
neglect of building the temple; they are most earnestly and...
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And now, I pray you, consider from this day and upward, from before a
stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of the LORD:
Ver. 15. _And now, I pray you, consider_] Heb. Lay it upon your
heart, as...
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_And now, consider from this day_, &c. Reflect on what has happened to
you, from the time that a stop was put to the building of the temple,
after the first foundation of it was laid, till you began a...
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And now, I pray you, consider from this day and upward, by applying
their hearts to this problem, FROM BEFORE A STONE WAS LAID UPON A
STONE IN THE TEMPLE OF THE LORD, before its reconstruction was
res...
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A WARNING ADMONITION CONCERNING FALSE RIGHTEOUSNESS...
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10-19 Many spoiled this good work, by going about it with unholy
hearts and hands, and were likely to gain no advantage by it. The sum
of these two rules of the law is, that sin is more easily learne...
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AND NOW; furthermore consider. I PRAY YOU: he affectionately entreats
them to observe. FROM THIS DAY; this twenty-fourth day of the ninth
month, HAGGAI 2:10. And upward, through past years; trace year...
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Haggai 2:15 consider H7760 (H8798) H3824 day H3117 forward H4605
before H2962 stone H68 laid H7760 ...
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THE RESTORATION OF CURRENT BLESSING (HAGGAI 2:10).
Two months after the previous message, on the day that the foundations
or building of the new Temple were finally established, Haggai brings
both a w...
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Haggai 2:1. _In the seventh month, in the one and twentieth day of the
month, came the word of the LORD by the prophet Haggai, saying,_
God's people need to be spoken to very often; and every time Go...
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CONTENTS: The various temples. Chastening because of priest's impurity
and the peoples' delay. Future destruction of Gentile power.
CHARACTERS: God, Haggai, Zerubbabel, Joshua.
CONCLUSION: If we tak...
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Haggai 2:3. _Who is left among you that saw this house in her first
glory? Is it not in your eyes as nothing?_ Josephus properly ascribes
this to the poverty and weak state of the jews. The simile is...
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_Consider. .. from before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple
of the Lord._
THE HOUSE OF GOD
1. These places of worship are strongholds of the religious principle
of the community. The only t...
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HAGGAI—NOTE ON HAGGAI 2:10 Consider Your Ways: Holiness and
Defilement; Repentance and Blessing. In this fifth message, the Lord
uses an analogy of ritual holiness and uncleanness to force the
priests...
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HAGGAI—NOTE ON HAGGAI 2:15 The Lord calls the people to reflect upon
their economic situation prior to the start of reconstruction. The
past lack of agricultural prosperity did not lead to repentance....
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CRITICAL NOTES.]
HAGGAI 2:15. CONSIDER] Review of their condition from the present
specific time to the period before resumption of work—“to connect
their distress, then suffered, with their unfaithfu...
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EXPOSITION
HAGGAI 2:1
Part II. THE SECOND ADDRESS: THE GLORY OF THE NEW TEMPLE.
Haggai 2:1—§ 1. The proph
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Now in the seventh month, in the twenty-first day of the month, the
word of the LORD came to the prophet Haggai, saying, Speak now to
Zerubbabel, the governor of Judah, to Joshua, and to the residue o...
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1 Corinthians 11:31; Ezra 3:10; Ezra 4:24; Haggai 1:5; Haggai 1:7;...
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Upward — Through past years. Before — Before you would set upon
the re — building of the temple after you had intermitted it....
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Why does this verse imply that the building of the temple began in 520
B.C.?
PROBLEM: Haggai 2:15 implies that the building of the temple did not
begin until 520 B.C. Ezra 3:8-13 claims that the rebui...