Haggai 1:5
Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts: Consider your ways,
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.
In Context
4Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your cieled houses, while this house lieth waste?
Cross References
Exodus 7:23And Pharaoh turned and went into his house, neither did he lay even this to heart.
Psalms 48:13Mark ye welt 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, and set his heart on Daniel to deliver him: and he laboured till the going down of the sun to rescue him.
Haggai 1:7Thus saith the LORD of hosts: Consider your ways.
Luke 15:17But when he came to himself he said, How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough and to spare, and I perish here 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 →