Haggai 2:1
In the foure and twentieth day of the sixt moneth, in the second yeere of King Darius,
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Haggai 1:1In the second yeere of King Darius, in the sixt moneth, the first day of the moneth, came ye worde of the Lord (by the ministery of the Prophet Haggai) vnto Zerubbabel the sonne of Shealtiel, a prince of Iudah, and to Iehoshua the sonne of Iehozadak the hie Priest, saying,
Haggai 2:10The glory of this last House shall be greater then the first, sayth the Lord of hostes: and in this place will I giue peace, sayth the Lord of hostes.
2 Peter 1:21For the prophecie came not in olde time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moued by the holy Ghost.
Matthew Henry on Haggai 2:1
In this chapter we have three sermons preached by the prophet Haggai for the encouragement of those that are forward to build the temple. In the first he assures the builders that the glory of the house they were now building should, in spiritual respects, though not in outward, exceed that of Solomon's temple, in which he has an eye to the coming of Christ, ver. 1-9 . In the second he assures them that though their sin, in delaying to build the temple, had retarded the prosperous progress of all their other… Read the whole commentary →