Haggai 1:8
Ascend the mountain—and bring in wood and build the house,—that I may be pleased therewith and get myself glory, saith Yahweh.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
7Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts,—Apply your heart to your own experience:
Cross References
Exodus 29:43So will I meet there with the sons of Israel, and it shall be hallowed by my glory.
1 Chronicles 22:19Now, apply your heart and your soul, to seek unto Yahweh your God,—and then arise ye and build the sanctuary of Yahweh Elohim, that ye may bring the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, and the holy vessels of God, into the house which hath been built for the Name of Yahweh.
2 Chronicles 7:16Now, therefore, have I chosen and hallowed this house, that my Name may be there, unto times age-abiding,—and mine eyes and my heart shall he there, all the days.
Ezra 6:4layers of large stones, three, and one layer of new timber,—and, as for the expenses, out of the house of the king, let them be given.
Psalms 132:13For Yahweh hath chosen Zion,—He hath desired it as a dwelling for himself:
Isaiah 60:13The glory of Lebanon, unto thee, shall come, The fir-tree the holm-oak, and the sherbin-cedar, together, To adorn the place of my sanctuary, And the place of my feet, will I make glorious.
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 →