Haggai 1:2

Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: This people saith, The time is not yet come, the time that the house of Jehovah should be built.

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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, came the word of Jehovah by Haggai the prophet to Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua, the son of Josedech, the high-priest, saying,

3But the word of Jehovah hath come by Haggai the prophet, saying:—

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Cross References

Proverbs 26:13The slothful man saith, “There is a lion in the way; There is a lion in the streets.”

Ecclesiastes 3:3A time to kill, and a time to heal. A time to breaking down, and a time to build up.

Ecclesiastes 11:4He that watcheth the wind will not sow, and he that gazeth upon the clouds will not reap.

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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