Haggai 2:16

how was it then? When you came to a heap of twenty measures of grain, there were only ten; and when you came to the wine vat to draw out fifty measures, there were only twenty.

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Since those days were, when one came to an heap of twenty measures, there were but ten: when one came to the pressfat for to draw out fifty vessels out of the press, there were but twenty.

In Context

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,

17I afflicted you and all the work of your hands with blight and mildew, but you still did not turn to me—this is Yahweh's declaration.

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Cross References

Haggai 1:6You have sown much seed, but bring in little harvest; you eat but do not have enough; 1 you drink but cannot get drunk. You wear clothes but cannot warm yourselves, 1 and the wage earner earns money only to put it into a bag full of holes! 1

Zechariah 8:10For before those days 1 no crops were gathered in by anyone, 1 there was no profit for either man or beast, 1 and there was no peace from enemies for anyone going or coming. 1 I had set every person each against his neighbor. 1

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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