Haggai 1:3

Then the word of the Lord came by Haggai the prophet, saying,

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Then came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet, saying,

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2These are the words of the Lord of armies: These people say, The time has not come for building the Lord's house.

4Is it a time for you to be living in roofed houses while this house is a waste?

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Cross References

Ezra 5:1Now the prophets Haggai and Zechariah, the son of Iddo, were preaching to the Jews in Judah and Jerusalem in the name of the God of Israel.

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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