Haggai 1:8
Go up the mountain, and you have brought in wood, || And build the house, and I am pleased with it. And I am honored,” said YHWH.
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In Context
7Thus said YHWH of Hosts: “Set your heart to your ways.
Cross References
Exodus 29:43and I have met with the sons of Israel there, and it has been sanctified by My glory.
1 Chronicles 22:19Now give your heart and your soul to seek for your God YHWH, and rise and build the sanctuary of YHWH God, to bring in the Ark of the Covenant of YHWH, and the holy vessels of God, to the house that is built for the Name of YHWH.”
2 Chronicles 7:16and now, I have chosen and sanctified this house for My Name being there for all time; indeed, My eyes and My heart have been there [for] all the days.
Ezra 6:4three rows of rolled stones, and a row of new wood, and let the outlay be given out of the king’s house.
Psalms 132:13For YHWH has fixed on Zion, || He has desired [it] for a seat to Himself,
Isaiah 60:13The glory of Lebanon comes to you, || Fir, pine, and box together, || To beautify the place of My sanctuary, || And I make the place of My feet honorable.
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 →