Haggai 1:3

Then this message from the Lord came to Haggai the prophet:

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

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2The Lord of hosts says: The people say that the time has not yet come to rebuild the temple of the Lord.

4Is it a time for you yourselves to live in your own well-roofed houses, while this temple lies in ruins?

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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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