Haggai 1:5

Now this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Consider carefully your ways.

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In The King James Version

Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.

In Context

4“Is it a time for you yourselves to live in your paneled houses, while this house lies in ruins?”

6You have planted much but harvested little. You eat but never have enough. You drink but never have your fill. You put on clothes but never get warm. You earn wages to put into a bag pierced through.”

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Cross References

Exodus 7:23Instead, Pharaoh turned around, went into his palace, and did not take any of this to heart.

Psalms 48:13consider her ramparts, tour her citadels, that you may tell the next generation.

Ezekiel 18:28Because he considered and turned from all the transgressions he had committed, he will surely live; he will not die.

Daniel 6:14As soon as the king heard this, he was deeply distressed and set his mind on delivering Daniel, and he labored until sundown to rescue him.

Haggai 1:7This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Consider carefully your ways.

Luke 15:17Finally he came to his senses and said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have plenty of food, but I am starving to death!

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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