Haggai 1:3

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

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Then came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet, saying,

In Context

2Thus 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.

4Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your ceiled houses, while this house lieth in ruins?

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Cross References

Ezra 5:1Then prophesied Haggai the prophet, and Zechariah the son of 'Iddo, the prophets, unto the Jews that were in Judah and Jerusalem, in the name of the God of Israel, concerning them.

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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