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Verse 6. _YE HAVE SOWN MUCH_] God will not bless you in any labour of
your hands, unless you rebuild his temple and restore his worship.
This verse contains a series of _proverbs_; no less than _five_...
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YE HAVE SOWN MUCH - The prophet expresses the habitualness of these
visitations by a vivid present. He marks no time and so expresses the
more vividly that it was at all times. It is one continually p...
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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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YE HAVE SOWN, &C Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 28:38;
Deuteronomy 28:39). App-92.
HAVE NOT ENOUGH. are not satisfied. Reference to Pentateuch (Leviticus
26:26). App-92....
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_Ye have sown much_, &c. The expostulation is very abrupt and forcible
in the Hebrew, "Ye sowed much, but to bring in little! To eat, but not
to satiety! To drink, but not to exhilaration! To clothe ...
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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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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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Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not
enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but
there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to p...
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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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YE EAT, BUT YE HAVE NOT ENOUGH] lit. 'but not to satisfy.' This v.
formulates a series of vigorous comparisons, indicating that their
labour had been ill rewarded. They had experienced failures of cro...
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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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YE HAVE SOWN MUCH... — Literally, _Ye have been sowing much and
bringing in little; eating, and it was not to satisfaction; drinking,
and it was not to fulness; clothing yourselves, and it was not for...
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זְרַעְתֶּ֨ם הַרְבֵּ֜ה וְ הָבֵ֣א
מְעָ֗ט אָכֹ֤ול...
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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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(e) Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not
enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but
there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages ...
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_Filled. Literally, "inebriated," (Haydock) so as to become cheerful.
(St. Jerome)_...
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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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He says that they had _sown much_, and that _small was the produce_.
They who render the clause in the future tense, wrest the meaning of
the Prophet: for why did he say, apply your heart to your ways...
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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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YE HAVE SOWN MUCH, AND BRING IN LITTLE,.... Contrary to what is
usually done; the seed that is sown is but little, in, comparison of
what springs up, is reaped, and gathered into the barn; which commo...
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Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not
enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but
there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages [to p...
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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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Ye have sown much, or have been sowing much, in the expectation of big
crops, AND BRING IN LITTLE, the harvest being small in spite of all
their efforts; YE EAT, BUT YE HAVE NOT ENOUGH, they were not...
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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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WITH HOLES:
_ Heb._ pierced through...
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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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The prophet doth help them, or directs them what in particular they
ought to consider, and so debateth it with them: Your labour, care,
and charge hath been great in ploughing and sowing, that you are...
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Haggai 1:6 sown H2232 (H8804) much H7235 (H8687) bring H935 (H8687)
little H4592 eat H398 ...
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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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_He that earneth wages, earneth wages to put it into a bag with
holes._
THE BAG WITH HOLES
The prophet lifted his warning voice, and entreated his sinful
brethren to “consider their ways,” to solve f...
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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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HAGGAI—NOTE ON HAGGAI 1:6 SOWN MUCH... HARVESTED LITTLE. Because of
their preference for personal gain over temple rebuilding, God has not
blessed the people’s labors. EAT... DRINK.... CLOTHE.... EARN...
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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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1 Kings 17:12; 2 Samuel 21:1; Amos 4:6; Deuteronomy 28:38; Ezekie
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Have not enough — But what you eat doth not nourish or satisfy you.
Are not filled — Your water quenches not your thirst, your wine does
not revive your spirit. None warm — You have no comfort therein...