Haggai 2:14

So Haggai answered and said, “So it is with this people and this nation before me!—this is Yahweh's declaration—and so it is with everything done by their hands. What they offer to me is unclean!

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In The King James Version

Then answered Haggai, and said, So is this people, and so is this nation before me, saith the LORD; and so is every work of their hands; and that which they offer there is unclean.

In Context

13Then Haggai said, “If someone who is unclean because of death touches any of these things, do they become unclean?” The priests answered and said, “Yes, they become unclean.”

15So now, think in your minds about the past leading up to this very day. Before stone was placed upon stone in the temple of Yahweh,

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Cross References

Proverbs 15:8Yahweh hates the sacrifices of wicked people, 1 but the prayer of upright people is his delight. 1

Proverbs 21:27The sacrifice of the wicked is detestable; 1 it is even more detestable when he brings it with evil motives. 1

Isaiah 1:11“What is the multitude of your sacrifices to me?” says Yahweh. 1 “I have had enough of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fatted beasts; 1 and in the blood of bulls, lambs, or goats I do not delight. 1

Haggai 1:4“Is it a time for you yourselves to live in your finished houses, 1 while this house lies ruined? 1

Jude 1:23Save others by snatching them out of the fire. To others be merciful with fear. Hate even the garment stained by the flesh.

Matthew Henry on Haggai 2:11-20

Evil More Communicable than Good; Encouragement to Build the Temple. ( b. c. 520.) 10 In the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the Lord by Haggai the prophet, saying, 11 Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Ask now the priests concerning the law, saying, 12 If one bear holy flesh in the skirt of his garment, and with his skirt do touch bread, or pottage, or wine, or oil, or any meat, shall it be holy? And the priests answered and said, No. 13 Then said Haggai, If… Read the whole commentary →

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