Haggai 2:15

Now, therefore, I pray you apply your heart, from this day and upwards,—So long as there had not been laid one stone upon another in the temple of Yahweh,

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

And now, I pray you, consider from this day and upward, from before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of the LORD:

In Context

14Then answered Haggai and said, So, is this people and, so, is this nation before me, Declareth Yahweh, and, so, is every work of their hands,—therefore, whatsoever they offer there, is, defiled.

16So long were things thus, that, on coming unto a heap of twenty, then was it found to be ten,—on coming unto the vat to draw off fifty measures, then were there found to be twenty.

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Cross References

Ezra 4:24Then ceased the work of the house of God, which was in Jerusalem,—yea it did cease, until the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.

Isaiah 5:12And it cometh to pass—that lyre and harp, timbrel and flute and wine are in their banquets,—But, the doing of Yahweh, they do not discern, And the work of his hands, have they not seen.

Haggai 1:5Now, therefore, Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts,—Apply your heart unto your own experience—

Haggai 2:18Apply your heart, I pray you, from this day and upwards,—from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, even from the day when was founded the temple of Yahweh, apply your heart:

Malachi 3:8Will, a son of earth, defraud, God? Nevertheless, ye, have been defrauding me, and yet ye say, Wherein have we defrauded thee? In the tithe and the offering.

1 Corinthians 11:31If, however, we had been setting, ourselves, apart, we had not, in that case, been coming under judgment;

Matthew Henry on Haggai 2:11-20

Evil More Communicable than Good; Encouragement to Build the Temple. ( b. c. 520.) 10 In the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the Lord by Haggai the prophet, saying, 11 Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Ask now the priests concerning the law, saying, 12 If one bear holy flesh in the skirt of his garment, and with his skirt do touch bread, or pottage, or wine, or oil, or any meat, shall it be holy? And the priests answered and said, No. 13 Then said Haggai, If… Read the whole commentary →

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