Haggai 1:4
Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your paneled batim, and this Beis + 1:4 HaMikdash lie in ruins?
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house lie waste?
In Context
3Then came the Devar Hashem by Chaggai HaNavi, saying,
5Now therefore thus saith Hashem Tzva'os; Consider your ways.
Cross References
Leviticus 19:25And in the shanah hachamishit shall ye eat of the fruit thereof, that it may yield unto you the increase thereof: I am Hashem Eloheichem.
2 Kings 5:26And he said unto him, Went not mine lev (spirit) with thee, when the ish turned again from his merkavah to meet thee? Is it a time to receive kesef, and to receive begadim, and zeitim (olive groves), and kramim, and tzon, and bakar, and avadim, and shefachot?
Psalms 102:14Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon Tziyon; 1 for the time to favor her, 1 the mo'ed (set time, appointed time) has come. 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
Jeremiah 26:18Michah the Morashti prophesied in the days of Chizkiyah Melech Yehudah, and spoke to kol Am Yehudah, saying, Thus saith Hashem Tzva'os: 1 Tziyon shall be plowed like a sadeh, 1 and Yerushalayim shall become rubble heaps, 1 and the Har HaBais (Temple Mount) like the bare heights of a ya'ar (forest).
Jeremiah 33:12Thus saith Hashem Tzva'os; Again in this makom, which is desolate without adam and without behemah, and in all the towns thereof, shall be a naveh (dwelling) of ro'im (shepherds) resting their tzon.
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 →