Haggai 2:1
In the four and twentieth day of the month, in the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king, they began.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
2And in the seventh month, the word of the Lord came by the hand of Aggeus the prophet, saying:
Cross References
Haggai 1:1In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came by the hand of Aggeus the prophet, to Zorobabel the son of Salathiel, governor of Juda, and to Jesus the son of Josedec the high priest, saying:
Haggai 2:10Great shall be the glory of this last house more than of the first, saith the Lord of hosts: and in this place I will give peace, saith the Lord of hosts.
2 Peter 1:21For prophecy came not by the will of man at any time: but the holy men of God spoke, inspired by the Holy Ghost.
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 →