Haggai 1:8
Go up to the mountain, and cut timber; build the house, and I will take pleasure in it, and be glorified, saith the Lord.
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
7Thus saith the Lord Almighty; Consider your ways.
Cross References
Exodus 29:43And I will there give orders to the children of Israel, and I will be sanctified in my glory.
1 Chronicles 22:19Now set your hearts and souls to seek after the Lord your God: and rise, and build a sanctuary to your God to carry in the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and the holy vessels of God, into the house that is to be built to the name of the Lord.
2 Chronicles 7:16And now I have chosen and sanctified this house, that my name should be there forever: and my eyes and my heart shall be there always.
Ezra 6:4And let there be three strong layers of stone, and one layer of timber; and the expense shall be paid out of the house of the king.
Isaiah 60:13And the glory of Lebanon shall come to thee, with the cypress, and pine, and cedar together, to glorify my holy place.
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 →