Haggai 1:5

Now therefore this is what the LORD of Armies says: ‘Consider your ways.

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Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.

In Context

4“Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while this house lies waste?

6You have sown much, and bring in little. You eat, but you don’t have enough. You drink, but you aren’t filled with drink. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm; and he who earns wages earns wages to put them into a bag with holes in it.’

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Cross References

Exodus 7:23Pharaoh turned and went into his house, and he didn’t even take this to heart.

Psalms 48:13Notice her bulwarks. Consider her palaces, that you may tell it to the next generation.

Ezekiel 18:28Because he considers, and turns away from all his transgressions that he has committed, he shall surely live. He shall not die.

Daniel 6:14Then the king, when he heard these words, was very displeased, and set his heart on Daniel to deliver him; and he labored until the going down of the sun to rescue him.

Haggai 1:7“This is what the LORD of Armies says: ‘Consider your ways.

Luke 15:17But when he came to himself, he said, ‘How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough to spare, and I’m dying with hunger!

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 →

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