Haggai 1:2

Thus saith the Lord Almighty, saying, This people say, The time is not come to build the house of the Lord.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, This people say, The time is not come, the time that the LORD’S house should be built.

In Context

1In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came by the hand of the prophet Haggai, saying, Speak to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, of the tribe of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, saying,

3And the word of the Lord came by the hand of the prophet Haggai, saying,

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Cross References

2 Kings 12:7And it came to pass in the twenty-third year of King Jehoash the priests had not repaired the breaches of the house.

Proverbs 26:13A sluggard when sent on a journey says, 1 There is a lion in the ways, 1 And there are murderers in the streets. 1

Ecclesiastes 3:3A time to kill, and a time to heal; 1 A time to pull down, and a time to build up; 1

Ecclesiastes 11:4He that observes the wind sows not; 1 And he that looks at the clouds will not reap. 1

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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