Haggai 1:2
Thus saith the Lord Almighty, saying, This people say, The time is not come to build the house of the Lord.
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
3And the word of the Lord came by the hand of the prophet Aggæus, saying,
Cross References
2 Kings 12:7And it came to pass in the twenty-third year of king Joas the priests had not repaired the breaches of the house.
Nehemiah 4:10And Juda said, The strength of the enemies is broken, yet there is much rubbish, and we shall not be able to build the wall.
Proverbs 26:13A sluggard when sent on a journey says, There is a lion in the ways, and there are murderers in the streets.
Ecclesiastes 3:3a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to pull down, and a time to build up;
Ecclesiastes 11:4He that observes the wind sows not; and he that looks at the clouds will not 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 →