Haggai 1:3

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

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Then came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet, saying,

In Context

2Thus saith the Lord Almighty, saying, This people say, The time is not come to build the house of the Lord.

4Is it time for you to dwell in your ceiled houses, whereas our house is desolate?

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Cross References

Ezra 5:1And Haggai the prophet, and Zechariah the son of Iddo, prophesied a prophecy to the Jews in Judah and Jerusalem in the name of the God of Israel, even to them.

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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