Haggai 2:1

On the twenty-fourth day of the month, in the sixth month, in the second year of king Darius, they began.

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In the seventh month, in the one and twentieth day of the month, came the word of the LORD by the prophet Haggai, saying,

In Context

2And in the seventh month, on the twenty-first of the month, the word of the Lord came, by the hand of Haggai the prophet, saying:

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Cross References

Haggai 1:1In the second year of king Darius, in the sixth month, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came, by the hand of Haggai the prophet, to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Jesus the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, saying:

Haggai 2:10Great shall be the glory of this house, the last more than the first, says the Lord of hosts. And in this place, I will bestow peace, says the Lord of hosts.

2 Peter 1:21For prophecy was not conveyed by human will at any time. Instead, holy men were speaking about God while inspired by the Holy Spirit.

Matthew Henry on Haggai 2:1

In this chapter we have three sermons preached by the prophet Haggai for the encouragement of those that are forward to build the temple. In the first he assures the builders that the glory of the house they were now building should, in spiritual respects, though not in outward, exceed that of Solomon's temple, in which he has an eye to the coming of Christ, ver. 1-9 . In the second he assures them that though their sin, in delaying to build the temple, had retarded the prosperous progress of all their other… Read the whole commentary →

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