Haggai 1:2
These are the words of the Lord of armies: These people say, The time has not come for building the Lord's house.
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In Context
3Then the word of the Lord came by Haggai the prophet, saying,
Cross References
2 Kings 12:7Then King Jehoash sent for Jehoiada the priest, and the other priests, and said to them, Why have you not made good what is damaged in the house? now take no more money from your neighbours, but give it for the building up of the house.
Nehemiah 4:10And Judah said, The strength of the workmen is giving way, and there is much waste material; it is impossible for us to put up the wall.
Proverbs 26:13The hater of work says, There is a lion in the way; a lion is in the streets.
Ecclesiastes 3:3A time to put to death and a time to make well; a time for pulling down and a time for building up;
Ecclesiastes 11:4He who is watching the wind will not get the seed planted, and he who is looking at the clouds will not get in the grain.
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 →