Haggai 2:1

on the twenty-first day of the seventh month, this message from the Lord came to Haggai the prophet,

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In the seventh month, in the one and twentieth day of the month, came the word of the LORD by the prophet Haggai, saying,

In Context

2telling him to speak to Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and to all the rest of the people:

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Cross References

Haggai 1:1In the second year of Darius the king, on the first day of the sixth month, this message from the Lord came through Haggai the prophet to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest:

Haggai 2:10In the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, this message from the Lord came to Haggai the prophet:

2 Peter 1:21for no prophetic teaching ever came in the old days at the mere wish of people, but people, moved by the Holy Spirit, spoke direct from God.

Matthew Henry on Haggai 2:1

In this chapter we have three sermons preached by the prophet Haggai for the encouragement of those that are forward to build the temple. In the first he assures the builders that the glory of the house they were now building should, in spiritual respects, though not in outward, exceed that of Solomon's temple, in which he has an eye to the coming of Christ, ver. 1-9 . In the second he assures them that though their sin, in delaying to build the temple, had retarded the prosperous progress of all their other… Read the whole commentary →

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