Haggai 1:4
“Is it a time for you yourselves to live in your finished houses, 1 while this house lies ruined? 1
Unlocked Literal 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 the word of Yahweh came by the hand of Haggai the prophet, saying, 1
5So now Yahweh of hosts says this: 1 Consider your ways! 1
Cross References
Leviticus 19:25In the fifth you may eat the fruit, having waited so that the trees might produce more. I am Yahweh your God.
2 Kings 5:26Elisha said to Gehazi, “Was not my spirit with you when the man turned his chariot to meet you? Is this a time to accept money and clothes, olive orchards and vineyards, sheep and oxen, and male servants and female servants?
Psalms 102:14For your servants hold her stones dear 1 and feel compassion for the dust of her ruins. 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
Jeremiah 26:18They said, “Micah the Morashite was prophesying in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah. He spoke to all the people of Judah and said, 'Yahweh of hosts says this: 1 Zion will become a plowed field, 1 Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble, 1 and the hill of the temple will become a thicket.'
Jeremiah 33:12Yahweh of hosts says this: 'In this desolate place, where now there is neither man nor beast—in all its cities there will again be pastures where shepherds can rest their flocks.
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 →