Haggai 1:2
“Thus spoke YHWH of Hosts, saying, This people—they have said, || The time has not come, || The time the house of YHWH [is] to be built.”
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
In Context
3And there is a word of YHWH by the hand of Haggai the prophet, saying,
Cross References
2 Kings 12:7and King Jehoash calls to Jehoiada the priest, and to the priests, and says to them, “Why are you not strengthening the breach of the house? And now, receive no money from your acquaintances, but give it for the breach of the house.”
Nehemiah 4:10And Judah says, “The power of the burden-bearers has become feeble, and the rubbish [is] abundant, and we are not able to build on the wall.”
Proverbs 26:13The slothful has said, || “A lion [is] in the way, || A lion [is] in the broad places.”
Ecclesiastes 3:3A time to slay, || And a time to heal, || A time to break down, || And a time to build up.
Ecclesiastes 11:4Whoever is observing the wind does not sow, || And whoever is looking on the thick clouds does 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 →