Haggai 1
1
Command to Rebuild the Temple
1In the second year of King Darius, # 1:1 King of Persia reigned 522–486 BC,# 1:1 Ezr 4:5; Neh 12:22; Dn 9:11; 11:1; Hg 1:15; 2:10; Zch 1:1,7; 7:1 on the first day of the sixth month, the word of the Lord came through the prophet # 1:1 Ezr 5:1; 6:14 Haggai to Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, # 1:1 1Ch 3:19; Ezr 3:2,8; 5:2; Neh 12:1; Hg 1:12,14; 2:2,23; Lk 3:27 the governor of Judah, and to Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest: # 1:1 Hg 1:12,14; 2:2,4; Zch 3:1,8; 6:11
2“The Lord of Armies says this: These people say: The time has not come for the house of the Lord to be rebuilt.” # 1:2 Ezr 1:3
3The word of the Lord came through the prophet Haggai: 4“Is it a time for you yourselves to live in your paneled houses, # 1:4 1Kg 7:7; Jr 22:14 while this house # 1:4 = the temple lies in ruins? ” 5Now, the Lord of Armies says this: “Think carefully # 1:5 Hg 2:15,18 about # 1:5 Lit Place your heart on, also in v. 7 your ways:
6You have planted much
but harvested little.
You eat
but never have enough to be satisfied.
You drink
but never have enough to be happy.
You put on clothes
but never have enough to get warm.
The wage earner puts his wages
into a bag with a hole in it.” # 1:6 Lv 26:20; Dt 28:38–40
7The Lord of Armies says this: “Think carefully about your ways. 8Go up into the hills, bring down lumber, and build the house; and I will be pleased with it and be glorified,” says the Lord. 9“You expected much, but then it amounted to little. When you brought the harvest to your house, I ruined # 1:9 Lit blew on it. Why? ” This is the declaration of the Lord of Armies. “Because my house still lies in ruins, while each of you is busy with his own house.
10So on your account, # 1:10 Or So above you
the skies have withheld the dew
and the land its crops. # 1:10 Lv 26:20; Dt 11:17
11I have summoned a drought
on the fields and the hills,
on the grain, new wine, fresh oil,
and whatever the ground yields,
on people and animals,
and on all that your hands produce.”
The People’s Response
12Then Zerubbabel # 1:12 1Ch 13:9; Ezr 3:8; Neh 12:1; Hg 2:2; Zch 4:6 son of Shealtiel, the high priest Joshua son of Jehozadak, and the entire remnant of the people # 1:12 Is 10:20–21; Jr 41:10; Hg 2:2 obeyed the Lord their God and the words of the prophet Haggai, because the Lord their God had sent him. So the people feared the Lord. # 1:12 Ex 14:31; Dt 4:10; 1Sm 12:18
13Then Haggai, the Lord’s messenger, delivered the Lord’s message to the people: “I am with you # 1:13 Hg 2:4 — this is the Lord’s declaration.”
14The Lord roused the spirit # 1:14 1Ch 5:26; Ezr 1:1,5; Is 13:17; 14:9; 41:10; 45:13; Jr 51:11 of Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, the spirit of the high priest Joshua son of Jehozadak, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people. They began work on the house of the Lord of Armies, their God, 15on the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month, in the second year of King Darius.
Currently Selected:
Haggai 1: CSB
Highlight
Copy
Compare
Share
Want to have your highlights saved across all your devices? Sign up or sign in
© 2017 Holman Bible Publishers
Chaggai 1
1
1In the second year of Daryavesh HaMelech, in the sixth month, in yom echad of the month, came the Devar Hashem by Chaggai HaNavi unto Zerubavel ben Sh'altiel, Governor of Yehudah, and to Yehoshua ben Yehotzadak,#1:1 i.e., the namesake of Moshiach, see Zech 6:11-12 the Kohen HaGadol, saying, 2Thus saith Hashem Tzva'os: This people say, The time is not come, the time that Beis Hashem should be built. 3Then came the Devar Hashem by Chaggai HaNavi, saying, 4Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your paneled batim, and this Beis#1:4 HaMikdash lie in ruins? 5Now therefore thus saith Hashem Tzva'os; Consider your ways. 6Ye have sown harbeh (much), and bring in me'at (little); ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe yourselves, but there is no warming; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put them into a purse of holes.
7Thus saith Hashem Tzva'os: Consider your ways. 8Go up to the har (mountain), and bring etz, and build HaBeis;#1:8 HaMikdash and I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, saith Hashem. 9Ye looked for harbeh (much), and, hinei, it came to me'at (little); and when ye brought it home, I blew it away. Why? saith Hashem Tzva'os. Because of Mine Beis#1:9 HaMikdash that is in ruins, and ye run every man for his own bais. 10Therefore the Shomayim over you is stayed from dew, and Ha'Aretz is stayed from her fruit. 11And I called for a drought upon ha'aretz, and upon the harim (mountains), and upon the grain, and upon the new wine, and upon the oil, and upon that which ha'adamah bringeth forth, and upon ha'adam, and upon livestock, and upon all the labor of the hands.
12Then Zerubavel ben Sh'altiel, and Yehoshua ben Yehotzadak, the Kohen HaGadol, with kol she'erit HaAm, obeyed the voice of Hashem Eloheichem, and the words of Chaggai HaNavi, as Hashem Eloheichem had sent him, and the people did fear before Hashem. 13Then spoke Chaggai malach Hashem with the message of Hashem unto the people, saying, I am with you, saith Hashem. 14And Hashem stirred up the ruach of Zerubavel ben Sh'altiel, Governor of Yehudah, and the ruach of Yehoshua ben Yehotzadak, the Kohen HaGadol, and the ruach of kol she'erit HaAm; and they came and did work in the Beis#1:14 HaMikdash of Hashem Tzva'os, Eloheichem, 15In the four and twentieth yom of the sixth month, in the second year of Daryavesh HaMelech.#1:15 520 B.C.E.
THE ORTHODOX JEWISH BIBLE
FOURTH EDITION REVISED © Artists For Israel Intl Inc., 2002-2011, 2021, 2024.