Haggai 1:5
Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.
King James Version
In Context
4Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house lie waste?
Cross References
Exodus 7:23And Pharaoh turned and went into his house, neither did he set his heart to this also.
Psalms 48:13Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye may tell it to the generation following.
Ezekiel 18:28Because he considereth, and turneth away from all his transgressions that he hath committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
Daniel 6:14Then the king, when he heard these words, was sore displeased with himself, and set his heart on Daniel to deliver him: and he laboured till the going down of the sun to deliver him.
Haggai 1:7Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.
Luke 15:17And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough and to spare, and I perish 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 →