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Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Haggai 1:4

Is it time for you... — Literally, Is it time for you to dwell in your houses, and those ceiled? — i.e., probably with cedar and other costly woods. A crushing retort. If the adverse decree of Artaxerxes, which disallowed the building of Jerusalem (Ezra 4:21), had not hindered them from erecting magnificent residences for themselves, how could it reasonably excuse an utter neglect of God’s House?

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse 4. IS IT _TIME FOR YOU_] If the _time be not come_ to rebuild the _temple_, it cannot be come for you to _build yourselves_ _comfortable houses_: but ye are rebuilding your houses; why then do y...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    IS IT TIME FOR YOU - You, being what you are, the creatures of God, “to dwell in your ceiled houses,” more emphatically, in your houses, and those “ceiled,” probably with costly woods, such as cedar ....

  • 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

    YOU,. YE. Hebrew Figure of speech _Epizeuxis_ (App-6), for emphasis. you, even you, or that ye yourselves. CEILED. panelled. Used of the lining of an arched roof. Occurs in 1Ki 6:9. 1 Kings 7:3; 1 Kin...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _for you, O ye_ Lit., FOR YOU, YOU: _you, yourselves_, R. V. The repetition of the pronoun is emphatic, "you are the people I mean;" or you in implied contrast to Almighty God, comp. 1 Samuel 25:24, w...

  • 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...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    IS IT TIME FOR YOU, &C.— _Is the time come for you to inhabit your ceiled houses, while that house lieth desolate?_ This is in answer to Haggai 1:2. "You complain of the times; yet they have not been...

  • 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

    Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house lie waste? Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house lie waste? IS IT TIME. It is not time ()...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    1:4 wainscoted (i-12) Or 'ceiled.' see Jeremiah 22:14 ....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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.)....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    TIME FOR YOU, O YE] lit. 'for you, you,' the repeated pronoun being very emphatic, so as to make a sharp contrast between them and the God they dishonoured. CIELED HOUSES] houses panelled with costly...

  • 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...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    הַ עֵ֤ת לָכֶם֙ אַתֶּ֔ם לָ שֶׁ֖בֶת בְּ

  • 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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    [Is it] time for you, O ye, to dwell in your (d) cieled houses, and this house [lie] waste? (d) Showing that they sought not only their necessities, but their very pleasures before God's honour....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Ceiled: superbly adorned. Hebrew, "covered." You are not content with what is merely necessary, while the temple lies in ruins. (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...

  • 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

    [IS IT] TIME FOR YOU, O YE, TO DWELL IN YOUR PANELLED HOUSES,.... They could not only find time, leisure, and convenience to build houses to dwell in; but to wainscot them, and line them with boards o...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Haggai 1:4 [Is it] time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house [lie] waste? Ver. 4. _Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your ceiled houses, &c._] Not covered only, but ceile...

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

    _This people say, The time is not come_, &c. They had no just cause for saying this; but their own private concerns and conveniences (as appears from what follows) employed all their thoughts, and the...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Is It time for you, O ye, to dwell In your celled houses, for yourselves to dwell in wainscoted houses, paneled in the most expensive manner, showing that they lived not only in comfort, but in luxury...

  • 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...

  • 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

    IS IT TIME? you think it full time to build your own houses, you judge it seasonable enough to lay out much cost on adorning them, what pretence can you make that it is not seasonable to build my hous...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Haggai 1:4 time H6256 dwell H3427 (H8800) paneled H5603 (H8803) houses H1004 temple H1004 ruins H2720

  • 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

    _Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your ceiled houses, and this house lie waste?_ CHURCH BUILDING The decree of Artaxerxes prohibited the building both of temple and city, but it seems that the p...

  • 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 ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    HAGGAI—NOTE ON HAGGAI 1:4 PANELED HOUSES... RUINS. The people focus on comfortable personal dwellings (see v. Haggai 1:9) while the Lord remains “homeless” (compare...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.] BY] Lit. in the hand of Haggai, the prophet, merely a conscious medium; God the real speaker (cf. Acts 7:35; Galatians 3:19). GOVERNOR] _Pechah_, akin to the Turkish _Pasha_, one who...

  • 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 Samuel 7:2; Daniel 9:17; Daniel 9:18; Daniel 9:26; Daniel 9:27;...

  • 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...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Ceiled — Arched and richly adorned....

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