Haggai 1:8
Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the house: that I may take pleasure in it, and be glorified, saith the Lord.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
7Thus hath said the Lord of hosts, Direct your heart to your ways.
Cross References
Exodus 29:43And I will meet there with the children of Israel, and it shall be sanctified by my glory.
1 Chronicles 22:19Now direct your heart and your soul to seek the Lord your God; and arise, and build ye the sanctuary of the Lord the [true] God, [in order] to bring the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and the holy vessels of God, into the house that is to be built unto the name of the Lord.
2 Chronicles 7:16And now I have chosen and hallowed this house, that my name may be there for ever; and my eyes and my heart shall be there at all times.
Ezra 6:4With three rows of heavy 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 made choice of Zion: he hath desired it as a habitation for himself.
Isaiah 60:13The glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee, the fir, the cypress, and the box together, to adorn the place of my sanctuary, and the [resting] place of my feet will I glorify.
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 →