Haggai 1:2

Thus saith Hashem Tzva'os: This people say, The time is not come, the time that Beis Hashem should be built.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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 Daryavesh HaMelech, in the sixth month, in yom echad of the month, came the Devar Hashem by Chaggai HaNavi unto Zerubavel ben Sh'altiel, Governor of Yehudah, and to Yehoshua ben Yehotzadak, + 1:1 i.e., the namesake of Moshiach, see Zech 6:11-12 the Kohen HaGadol, saying,

3Then came the Devar Hashem by Chaggai HaNavi, saying,

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Cross References

2 Kings 12:7But it was so, that in the three and twentieth year of Melech Yehoash, the Kohanim had not repaired the breaches of the Bais. + 12:7 Hamikdash

Nehemiah 4:10And it came to pass from that day forth, that half of my men did the melachah, and the other half of them held the spears, the shields, and the bows, and the body armor; and the officials posted themselves behind Kol Bais Yehudah

Proverbs 26:13The atzel (sluggard, lazy one) saith, There is a lion in the derech; 1 an ari is in the rechovot. 1

Ecclesiastes 3:3An et (season) to kill, 1 and an et (season) to heal; 1 an et (season) to tear down, 1 and an et (season) to build up; 1

Ecclesiastes 11:4He that observeth the ruach (wind) shall not sow; 1 and he that regardeth the clouds shall 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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