Haggai 1:5

The Lord of hosts says: Consider your past experiences.

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

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

6You sow much, but bring in little; you eat, but you do not have enough; you drink, but are not filled; you clothe yourselves, but not enough to be warm; and those who earn wages, put those wages in a bag with holes.

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Cross References

Psalms 48:13Set your mind on her ramparts, consider her palaces; that you tell to the next generation

Haggai 1:7The Lord of hosts says: Consider your experiences.

Luke 15:17But, when he came to himself, he said ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have more bread than they can eat, while here am I 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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