Haggai 1:4
Is it time for you to dwell in your ceiled houses, whereas our house is desolate?
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house lie waste?
In Context
3And the word of the Lord came by the hand of the prophet Haggai, saying,
5And now thus saith the Lord Almighty; Consider your ways, I pray you.
Cross References
Leviticus 19:25And in the fifth year ye shall eat the fruit, its produce is an increase to you. I am the Lord your God.
2 Kings 5:26Whence comest thou, Gehazi? and Gehazi said, Thy servant has not been hither or thither. And Elisha said to him, Went not my heart with thee, when the man returned from his chariot to meet thee? and now thou hast received silver, and now thou hast received raiment, and olive yards, and vineyards, and sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and maidservants.
Psalms 102:14For he knows our frame: 1 Remember that we are dust. 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
Jeremiah 26:18As I live, saith the Lord God, he shall come as Tabor among the mountains, and as Carmel that is on the sea.
Jeremiah 33:12Then Jeremiah spoke to the princes, and to all the people, saying, The Lord sent me to prophesy against this house and against this city, all the words which ye have heard.
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 →