Haggai 1:4
Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your ceiled houses, while this house lieth in ruins?
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house lie waste?
In Context
3And the word of the Lord came by means of Haggai the prophet, saying,
5Now therefore, thus hath said the Lord of hosts, Direct your heart unto your ways.
Cross References
Leviticus 19:25And in the fifth year shall ye eat of its fruit, in order that it may increase unto you its productiveness: I am the Lord your God.
2 Kings 5:26And he said unto him, My mind was not gone, when the man turned round from his chariot to meet thee. Is it a time to take money, and to take garments, and oliveyards, and vineyards, and sheep, and oxen, and men-servants, and maid-servants?
Psalms 102:14(102:15) For thy servants hold dear her stones, and her very dust they cherish.
Ecclesiastes 3:3A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
Jeremiah 26:18Michah the Morashthite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah the king of Judah. and said to all the people of Judah, as followeth, Thus hath said the Lord of hosts, Zion shall be ploughed up like a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps of ruins, and the mountain of the house, woody high-places.
Jeremiah 33:12Thus hath said the Lord of hosts, Yet again shall there be in this place, which is ruined, without man and even without beast, and in all its cities, a habitation of shepherds who cause their flocks to lie down.
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 →