In the second year of (a) 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 (b) Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, saying, The Argument - When the time of the s... [ Continue Reading ]
Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, This people say, The time is not come, the time (c) that the LORD'S house should be built. (c) Not that they condemned the building of it, but they preferred policy and personal profit to religion, being content with small beginnings.... [ Continue Reading ]
[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.... [ Continue Reading ]
(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 [to put it] into a bag with holes. (e) Consider the plagues of God upon you for preferring your poli... [ Continue Reading ]
Go (f) up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the house; and (g) I will take pleasure in it, and I will (h) be glorified, saith the LORD. (f) Meaning, that they should leave their own benefits, and go forward in the building of God's temple, and in the setting forth of his religion. (g) Tha... [ Continue Reading ]
Ye looked for much, and, lo, [it came] to little; and when ye brought [it] home, I did blow (i) upon it. Why? saith the LORD of hosts. Because of mine house that [is] waste, and ye run every man unto his own house. (i) And so bring it to nothing.... [ Continue Reading ]
Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed the (k) voice of the LORD their God, and the words of Haggai the prophet, as the LORD their God had sent him, and the people did fear before the LORD. (k) This declares... [ Continue Reading ]
And the LORD stirred up (l) the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they came and did work in the house of the LORD of hosts, their God, (l) Which declares t... [ Continue Reading ]