Haggai 1:4
Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses while this house lays waste?
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house lie waste?
In Context
3Then the word of LORD came by Haggai the prophet, saying,
5Now therefore thus says LORD of hosts: Consider your ways.
Cross References
Leviticus 19:25And in the fifth year ye shall eat of the fruit of it, that it may yield to you the increase of it. I am LORD your God.
2 Kings 5:26And he said to him, Did not my heart go [with thee] when the man turned from his chariot to meet thee? Is it a time to receive money, and to receive garments, and oliveyards and vineyards, and sheep and oxen, and men-servants and m
Psalms 102:14For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, and have pity upon her dust.
Ecclesiastes 3:3a time to kill, and a time to heal, a time to break down, and a time to build up,
Jeremiah 26:18Micah the Morashtite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and he spoke to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus says LORD of hosts: Zion shall be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of
Jeremiah 33:12Thus says LORD of hosts: Yet again there shall be in this place, which is waste, without man and without beast, and in all the cities thereof, a habitation of shepherds causing their flocks to lay down.
Matthew Henry on Haggai 1:2-12
Haggai The captivity in Babylon gave a very remarkable turn to the affairs of the Jewish church both in history and prophecy. It is made a signal epocha in our Saviour's genealogy, Matt. i. 17 . Nine of the twelve minor prophets, whose oracles we have been hitherto consulting, lived and preached before that captivity, and most of them had an eye to it in their prophecies, foretelling it as the just punishment of Jerusalem's wickedness. But the last three (in whom the Spirit of prophecy took its period, until it… Read the whole commentary →