Haggai 1:10

For this cause the heaven over you is kept from giving dew, and the earth from giving her fruit.

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Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed from her fruit.

In Context

9You were looking for much, and it came to little; and when you got it into your house, I took it away with a breath. Why? says the Lord of armies. Because of my house which is a waste, while every man takes care of the house which is his.

11And by my order no rain came on the land or on the mountains or the grain or the wine or the oil or the produce of the earth or on men or cattle or on any work of man's hands.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:23And the heaven over your heads will be brass, and the earth under you hard as iron.

1 Kings 17:1And Elijah the Tishbite, of Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, By the living Lord, the God of Israel, whose servant I am, there will be no dew or rain in these years, but only at my word.

Hosea 2:9So I will take away again my grain in its time and my wine, and I will take away my wool and my linen with which her body might have been covered.

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 →

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