Haggai 1:2
Thus says the Lord of hosts, saying: This people claims that the time has not yet arrived for building the house of the Lord.
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3But the word of the Lord came by the hand of Haggai the prophet, saying:
Cross References
2 Kings 12:7And king Jehoash called the high priest, Jehoiada, and the priests, saying to them: “Why have you not repaired the surfaces of the temple? Therefore, you may no longer accept money according to your ranks. Instead, return it in order that the temple may be repaired.”
Nehemiah 4:10Then Judah said: “The strength of those who carry has diminished, and the amount of material is very great, and so we will not be able to build the wall.”
Proverbs 26:13The lazy one says, “There is a lion along the way, and a lioness in the roads.”
Ecclesiastes 3:3A time to kill, and a time to heal. A time to tear down, and a time to build up.
Ecclesiastes 11:4Whoever heeds the wind will not sow. And whoever considers the clouds will never reap.
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 →