Haggai 2:8
The silver is mine and the gold is mine, says the Lord of armies.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the LORD of hosts.
In Context
Cross References
1 Kings 6:20And the inmost room was twenty cubits square and twenty cubits high, plated over with clear gold, and he made an altar of cedar-wood, plating it with gold.
Job 41:3\41:12\I will not keep quiet about the parts of his body, or about his power, and the strength of his frame.
Psalms 50:10For every beast of the woodland is mine, and the cattle on a thousand hills.
Isaiah 60:17In place of brass, I will give gold, and for iron silver, and for wood brass, and for stones iron: and I will make Peace your judge, and Righteousness your overseer.
Matthew Henry on Haggai 2:2-10
The Glory of the Latter House. ( b. c. 520.) 1 In the seventh month, in the one and twentieth day of the month, came the word of the Lord by the prophet Haggai, saying, 2 Speak now to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, and to the residue of the people, saying, 3 Who is left among you that saw this house in her first glory? and how do ye see it now? is it not in your eyes in comparison of it as nothing? 4 Yet now be strong, O Zerubbabel, saith the… Read the whole commentary →