Haggai 1:3

And the word of Jehovah came by Haggai the prophet, saying,

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

Then came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet, saying,

In Context

2Thus speaketh Jehovah of hosts, saying, This people say, The time is not come, the time that Jehovah's house should be built.

4Is it time for you that ye should dwell in your wainscoted houses, while this house lieth waste?

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Cross References

Ezra 5:1Now the prophets, Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo, prophesied to the Jews that were in Judah and Jerusalem; in the name of the God of Israel [did they prophesy] to them.

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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