Haggai 1:3

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

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

Then came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet, saying,

In Context

2Thus, speaketh Yahweh of hosts, saying,—This people, have said, Not yet hath come the time for the house of Yahweh to be built.

4Is it a time that, ye yourselves, should be dwelling in your own paneled houses? and, this house, be in ruins?

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Cross References

Ezra 5:1Then were moved to prophesy, Haggai the prophet, and Zechariah son of Iddo, the prophets, unto the Jews who were in Judaea and in Jerusalem,—in the name of the God of Israel, unto them.

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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