Haggai 1:2

Thus, speaketh Yahweh of hosts, saying,—This people, have said, Not yet hath come the time for the house of Yahweh to be built.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, This people say, The time is not come, the time that the LORD’S house should be built.

In Context

1In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, on the first of the month, came the word of Yahweh, by the hand of Haggai the prophet, unto Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, pasha of Judah, and unto Jehoshua son of Jehozadak the high priest, saying:

3Therefore hath come the word of Yahweh by the hand of Haggai the prophet, saying:

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Cross References

2 Kings 12:7So King Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and for the other priests, and said unto them—Why are ye not repairing the breaches of the house? Now, therefore, do not take silver from your acquaintances, for, to [repair] the breaches of the house, ought ye to have given it?

Nehemiah 4:10Then said Judah, The strength of the burden-bearer faileth, and, the rubbish, aboundeth,—and, we, are not able to build at the wall;

Proverbs 26:13Saith the sluggard, A roaring lion in the road! A tearing lion in the midst of the broadways.

Ecclesiastes 3:3A time to kill, and a time to heal,—A time to break down, and a time to build up;

Ecclesiastes 11:4He that observeth the wind, will not sow,—and, he that watcheth the clouds, will not reap.

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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