Haggai 1:2
“Yahweh of hosts says this: These people say, 'It is not time for us to come or to build Yahweh's house.'”
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In Context
3Then the word of Yahweh came by the hand of Haggai the prophet, saying, 1
Cross References
2 Kings 12:7Then King Joash called for Jehoiada the priest and for the other priests; he said to them, “Why have you not repaired anything in the temple? Now take no more money from your taxpayers, but take what has been collected for repairs of the temple and give it to those who can make the repairs.”
Nehemiah 4:10Then the people of Judah said, “The strength of those who carry the burdens is failing. There is too much rubble, and we are not able to rebuild the wall.”
Proverbs 26:13The lazy person says, “There is a lion on the road! 1 There is a lion between the open places!” 1
Ecclesiastes 3:3a time to kill and a time to heal, 1 a time to tear down and a time to build up. 1
Ecclesiastes 11:4Anyone who watches the wind might not plant, 2 and anyone who watches the clouds might not harvest. 1
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 →