Haggai 1:3
But the word of the Lord came by the hand of Haggai the prophet, saying:
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Then came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet, saying,
In Context
4Is it time for you to dwell in paneled houses, while this house is deserted?
Cross References
Ezra 5:1Now Haggai, the prophet, and Zechariah, the son of Iddo, prophesying to the Jews who were in Judea and Jerusalem, prophesied 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 →