Haggai 1:8
Go into the hills and bring wood to build the house. This will please me and honor me, says the Lord.
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7The Lord Almighty says this: Think about what you're doing!
Cross References
Exodus 29:43I will meet with the Israelites there, and that place will be made holy by my glory.
1 Chronicles 22:19Now, with your whole mind and heart, make a definite decision to always worship the Lord your God. Get started on building the sanctuary of the Lord God, Then you can bring the Ark of the Lord's Agreement and the holy things of God into the house that is to be built to honor the Lord.”
2 Chronicles 7:16for I have chosen and consecrated this Temple so that I may be honored there forever. I will always watch over it and take care of it for it really matters to me.
Ezra 6:4with three layers of stone blocks and one of timber. Expenses are to be paid from the royal treasury.
Psalms 132:13For the Lord has chosen Zion, wanting to make his home there, saying:
Isaiah 60:13The glory of Lebanon will come to you: cedars, acacias, and myrtle trees, to make my Temple beautiful and to honor the place I choose to live.
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 →