Haggai 1:8
Goe vp to the mountaine, and bring wood, and build this House, and I wil be fauourable in it, and I will be glorified, sayth the Lord.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
In Context
7Thus sayth the Lord of hostes, Consider your owne wayes in your hearts.
Cross References
Exodus 29:43There I will appoynt with the children of Israel, and the place shall bee sanctified by my glorie.
1 Chronicles 22:19Nowe set your hearts and your soules to seeke the Lord your God, and arise, and builde the Sanctuarie of the Lord God to bring the Arke of the couenant of the Lord, and the holy vessels of God into the house built for the Name of the Lord.
2 Chronicles 7:16For I haue nowe chosen and sanctified this house, that my Name may be there for euer: and mine eyes and mine heart shalbe there perpetually.
Ezra 6:4Three orders of great stones, and one order of timber, and let the expenses be giuen of the Kings house.
Psalms 132:13For the Lord hath chosen Zion, and loued to dwell in it, saying,
Isaiah 60:13The glory of Lebanon shall come vnto thee, the firre tree, the elme and the boxe tree together, to beautifie the place of my Sanctuarie: for I will glorifie the place of my feete.
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 →