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Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Haggai 1:5

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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See also Haggai 1:5 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    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?...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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)...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    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;...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _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...

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _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...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    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...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    1:5 Consider (k-8) Lit. 'Set your heart on.' so ch. 2.15,18, 'set your heart.'...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    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....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ עַתָּ֕ה כֹּ֥ה אָמַ֖ר יְהוָ֣ה צְבָאֹ֑ות שִׂ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _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)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    "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...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    _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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    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...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    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...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _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....

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    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...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    CONSIDER YOUR WAYS: _ Heb._ set your heart on your ways...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    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...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Haggai 1:5 says H559 (H8804) LORD H3068 hosts H6635 Consider H7760 (H8798) H3824 ways H1870 thus -...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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;...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION HAGGAI 1:1 Part I. THE FIRST ADDRESS: EXHORTATION TO BUILD THE TEMPLE AND ITS RESULT....

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Corinthians 13:5; Daniel 10:12; Daniel 6:14; Exodus 7:23; Exodus 9:21

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    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...

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