Haggai 1:5

For this cause the Lord of armies has said, Give thought to your ways.

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Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.

In Context

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

6Much has been planted, but little got in; you take food, but have not enough; you take drink, but are not full; you are clothed, but no one is warm; and he who gets payment for his work, gets it to put it into a bag full of holes.

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Cross References

Exodus 7:23Then Pharaoh went into his house, and did not take even this to heart.

Psalms 48:13\48:12\Make your way about Zion, and go round it, numbering its towers.

Ezekiel 18:28Because he had fear and was turned away from all the wrong which he had done, life will certainly be his, death will not be his fate.

Daniel 6:14\6:13\Then they made answer and said before the king, Daniel, one of the prisoners of Judah, has no respect for you, O King, or for the order signed by you, but three times a day he makes his prayer to God.

Haggai 1:7This is what the Lord of armies has said: Give thought to your ways.

Luke 15:17But when he came to his senses, he said, What numbers of my father's servants have bread enough, and more, while I am near to death here through need of food!

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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