Haggai 1:2
Thus saith the Lord of hosts, saying: This people saith: The time is not yet come for building the house of the Lord.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
3And the word of the Lord came by the hand of Aggeus the prophet, saying:
Cross References
2 Kings 12:7And king Joas called Joiada the high priest and the priests, saying to them: Why do you not repair the temple? Take you therefore money no more according to your order, but restore it for the repairing of the temple.
Nehemiah 4:10And Juda said: The strength of the bearer of burdens is decayed, and the rubbish is very much, and we shall not be able to build the wall.
Proverbs 26:13The slothful man saith: There is a lion in the way, and a lioness in the roads.
Ecclesiastes 3:3A time to kill, and a time to heal. A time to destroy, and a time to build.
Ecclesiastes 11:4He that observeth the wind, shall not sow: and he that considereth the clouds, shall 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 →