Haggai 1:3
And the word of the Lord came by the hand of Aggeus the prophet, saying:
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 ceiled houses, and this house lie desolate?
Cross References
Ezra 5:1Now Aggeus the prophet, and Zacharias the son of Addo, prophesied to the Jews that were in Judea and Jerusalem, 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 →