Haggai 1:2
The Lord Almighty says this: the people say, “This isn't the proper time to rebuild the Lord's house.”
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3Then the Lord sent a message through the prophet Haggai, saying,
Cross References
2 Kings 12:7So King Joash called together Jehoiada and the other priests and asked, “Why haven't you repaired the damage in the Temple? Don't use any more money you're given for yourselves, instead hand it over to others to repair the Temple.”
Nehemiah 4:10Then people of Judah started grumbling, saying, “The workmen are exhausted. There's just too much rubble to clear. We'll never be able to finish the wall.”
Proverbs 26:13Lazy people are the ones who say, “There's a lion on the road—a lion running around the streets!”
Ecclesiastes 3:3A time of killing, and a time of healing. A time of tearing down, and a time of building up.
Ecclesiastes 11:4The farmer who pays attention to the direction of the wind knows when not to sow, and by watching the clouds knows when not to 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 →