Haggai 1:3
Then the Lord sent a message through the prophet Haggai, saying,
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Then came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet, saying,
In Context
4Is it the proper time for you to live in your paneled houses while this house remains a ruin?
Cross References
Ezra 5:1The prophets Haggai and Zechariah, son of Iddo, gave messages to the Jews in Judah and Jerusalem from the God of Israel, their ruler.
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 →