Haggai 1:8
Go up to the hill-country, and bring wood, and build the house; and I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, saith the LORD.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
In Context
7Thus saith the LORD of hosts: Consider your ways.
Cross References
Exodus 29:43And there I will meet with the children of Israel; and the Tent shall be sanctified by My glory.
1 Chronicles 22:19Now set your heart and your soul to seek after the LORD your God; arise therefore, and build ye the sanctuary of the LORD God, to bring the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and the holy vessels of God, into the house that is to be built to the name of the LORD.'
2 Chronicles 7:16For now have I chosen and hallowed this house, that My name may be there for ever; and Mine eyes and My heart shall be there perpetually.
Ezra 6:4with three rows of great stones, and a row of new timber, and let the expenses be given out of the king's house;
Psalms 132:13For the LORD hath chosen Zion; He hath desired it for His habitation:
Isaiah 60:13The glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee, the cypress, the plane-tree and the larch together; to beautify the place of My sanctuary, and I will make the place of My feet glorious.
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 →