Haggai 2:15

And now, I pray you, consider from this day and backward, before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of Jehovah.

American Standard Version

In The King James Version

And now, I pray you, consider from this day and upward, from before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of the LORD:

In Context

14Then answered Haggai and said, So is this people, and so is this nation before me, saith Jehovah; and so is every work of their hands; and that which they offer there is unclean.

16Through all that time, when one came to a heap of twenty [measures], there were but ten; when one came to the winevat to draw out fifty [vessels], there were but twenty.

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Cross References

Ezra 4:24Then ceased the work of the house of God which is at Jerusalem; and it ceased until the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.

Isaiah 5:12And the harp and the lute, the tabret and the pipe, and wine, are [in] their feasts; but they regard not the work of Jehovah, neither have they considered the operation of his hands.

Haggai 1:5Now therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Consider your ways.

Haggai 2:18Consider, I pray you, from this day and backward, from the four and twentieth day of the ninth [month], since the day that the foundation of Jehovah`s temple was laid, consider it.

Malachi 3:8Will a man rob God? yet ye rob me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.

1 Corinthians 11:31But if we discerned ourselves, we should not be judged.

Matthew Henry on Haggai 2:11-20

Evil More Communicable than Good; Encouragement to Build the Temple. ( b. c. 520.) 10 In the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the Lord by Haggai the prophet, saying, 11 Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Ask now the priests concerning the law, saying, 12 If one bear holy flesh in the skirt of his garment, and with his skirt do touch bread, or pottage, or wine, or oil, or any meat, shall it be holy? And the priests answered and said, No. 13 Then said Haggai, If… Read the whole commentary →

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