Haggai 1:2
“This is what the LORD of Armies says: These people say, ‘The time hasn’t yet come, the time for the LORD’s house to be built.’”
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In Context
3Then the LORD’s word came by Haggai the prophet, saying,
Cross References
2 Kings 12:7Then King Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and for the other priests, and said to them, “Why aren’t you repairing the damage to the house? Now therefore take no more money from your treasurers, but deliver it for repair of the damage to the house.”
Nehemiah 4:10Judah said, “The strength of the bearers of burdens is fading and there is much rubble, so that we are not able to build the wall.”
Proverbs 26:13The sluggard says, “There is a lion in the road! A fierce lion roams the streets!”
Ecclesiastes 3:3a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
Ecclesiastes 11:4He who observes the wind won’t sow; and he who regards the clouds won’t reap.
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 →