Haggai 1:2

Thus hath said the Lord of hosts, saying, This people have said, The time is not yet come, the time for the Lord's house to be built.

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In The King James Version

Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, This people say, The time is not come, the time that the LORD’S house should be built.

In Context

1In the second year of king Darius, in the sixth month, on the first day of the month, came the word of the Lord through means of Haggai the prophet unto Zerubbabel the son of Shealthiel, the governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, saying,

3And the word of the Lord came by means of Haggai the prophet, saying,

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Cross References

2 Kings 12:7(12:8) Then called king Jehoash for Yehoyada' the priest, and the [other] priests, and he said unto them, Wherefore do ye not repair the breaches of the house? and now ye shall take no more money from your acquaintances, but ye shall give it up [at once] for the breaches of the house.

Nehemiah 4:10(4:4) And Judah said, The strength of the bearers of the burden is failing, and there is much rubbish; and we are not able to build on the wall.

Proverbs 26:13The slothful saith, There is a leopard in the way: a lion is between the streets.

Ecclesiastes 3:3A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;

Ecclesiastes 11:4He that watcheth the wind will not sow; and he that gazeth on the clouds will not 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 →

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