Haggai 1:2
Thus speaketh the Lord of hostes, saying, This people say, The time is not yet come, that the Lords House should be builded.
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In The King James Version
In Context
3Then came the worde of the Lord by the ministerie of the Prophet Haggai, saying,
Cross References
2 Kings 12:7Then King Iehoash called for Iehoiada the Priest, and the other Priestes, and sayd vnto them, Why repaire yee not the ruines of the Temple? nowe therefore receiue no more money of your acquaintance, except yee deliuer it to repaire the ruines of the Temple.
Nehemiah 4:10And Iudah said, The strength of the bearers is weakened, and there is much earth, so that we are not able to build the wall.
Proverbs 26:13The slouthfull man sayth, A lyon is in the way: a lyon is in the streetes.
Ecclesiastes 3:3A time to slay, and a time to heale: a time to breake downe, and a time to builde.
Ecclesiastes 11:4He that obserueth ye winde, shall not sow, and he that regardeth the cloudes, shall not reape.
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 →