Haggai 1:5
And now thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Consider your ways.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.
In Context
4Is it time for you that ye should dwell in your wainscoted houses, while this house lieth waste?
Cross References
Exodus 7:23And Pharaoh turned and went into his house, and took not this to heart either.
Psalms 48:13Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces: that ye may tell it to the generation following.
Ezekiel 18:28Because he considereth, and turneth from all his transgressions which he hath committed, he shall certainly live, he shall not die.
Daniel 6:14Then the king, when he heard these words, was sore distressed thereby, and set his heart on Daniel to save him; and he laboured till the going down of the sun to deliver him.
Haggai 1:7Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Consider your ways.
Luke 15:17And coming to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have abundance of bread, and *I* perish here by famine.
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 →