Haggai 1:10

That's why the clouds of heaven refused to send rain, and the earth refused to produce crops.

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Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed from her fruit.

In Context

9You were hoping for so much, but look, it turned out to be so little. Everything you brought home I blew away. And why was that? Because my house remains a ruin while you are preoccupied with building your own houses, declares the Lord Almighty.

11I called for a drought on the land, on the hills, on the grain fields, on the vineyards, and on the olive groves—on whatever the earth produces—and on people and livestock, on everything you do!

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:23The sky above you will be like bronze, and the earth beneath you will be like iron.

1 Kings 17:1Elijah the Tishbite (from Tishbe in Gilead), told Ahab, “As the Lord, the God of Israel, lives, the one I serve, in the years to come there will not be any dew or rain unless I say so!”

Hosea 2:9So I will take back my ripened grain and my new wine I gave at harvest-time. I will take back my wool and my flax I provided to cover her nakedness.

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 →

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