Haggai 1:8
Go up the mountain, and ye have brought in wood, And build the house, and I am pleased with it. And I am honoured, said Jehovah.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
7Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: Set your heart to your ways.
Cross References
Exodus 29:43and I have met there with the sons of Israel, and it hath been sanctified by My honour.
1 Chronicles 22:19'Now, give your heart and your soul to seek to Jehovah your God, and rise and build the sanctuary of Jehovah God, to bring in the ark of the covenant of Jehovah, and the holy vessels of God, to the house that is built to the name of Jehovah.'
2 Chronicles 7:16and now, I have chosen and sanctified this house for My name being there unto the age; yea, Mine eyes and My heart have been there all the days.
Ezra 6:4three rows of rolled stones, and a row of new wood, and the outlay let be given out of the king's house.
Psalms 132:13For Jehovah hath fixed on Zion, He hath desired [it] for a seat to Himself,
Isaiah 60:13The honour of Lebanon unto thee doth come, Fir, pine, and box together, To beautify the place of My sanctuary, And the place of My feet I make honourable.
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 →