Haggai 1
1
Command to Rebuild the Temple
1In the second year of King Darius, # King of Persia reigned 522–486 b.c. # 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 Haggai # Ezr 5:1; 6:14 the prophet to Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, # 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: # Hg 1:12,14; 2:2,4; Zch 3:1,8; 6:11
2“The Lord of Hosts says this: These people say: The time has not come for the house of the Lord to be rebuilt.” # Ezr 1:3
3The word of the Lord came through Haggai the prophet: 4“Is it a time for you yourselves to live in your paneled houses, # 1Kg 7:7; Jr 22:14 while this house # = the temple lies in ruins? ” 5Now, the Lord of Hosts says this: “Think carefully # Hg 2:15,18 about # Lit Place your heart on 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 become drunk.
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.” # Lv 26:20; Dt 28:38-40
7The Lord of Hosts says this: “Think carefully about # Lit Place your heart on your ways. 8Go up into the hills, bring down lumber, and build the house. Then 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 # Lit blew on it. Why? ” This is the declaration of the Lord of Hosts. “Because My house still lies in ruins, while each of you is busy with his own house.
10So on your account, # Or So above you
the skies have withheld the dew
and the land its crops. # Lv 26:20; Dt 11:17
11I have summoned a drought
on the fields and the hills,
on the grain, new wine, olive oil,
and whatever the ground yields,
on man and beast,
and on all that your hands produce.”
The People’s Response
12Then Zerubbabel # 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 # Is 10:20-21; Jr 41:10; Hg 2:2 obeyed the voice of 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. # Ex 14:31; Dt 4:10; 1Sm 12:18
13Haggai, the Lord’s messenger, delivered the Lord’s message to the people, “I am with you” # Hg 2:4 — this is the Lord’s declaration.
14The Lord stirred up the spirit # 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 Yahweh of Hosts, their God, 15on the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month, in the second year of King Darius.
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Haggai 1
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The People Urged to Build the Temple
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Ezra 4.24—5.2; 6.14. In the second year of Dari´us the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, came the word of the Lord by Hag´gai the prophet unto Zerub´babel the son of She-al´ti-el, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jos´edech, the high priest, saying, 2Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts, saying, This people say, The time is not come, the time that the Lord's house should be built. 3Then came the word of the Lord by Hag´gai the prophet, saying, 4Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your ceiled houses, and this house lie waste? 5Now therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts; Consider your ways. 6Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages, earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes.
7Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Consider your ways. 8Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the house; and I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, saith the Lord. 9Ye looked for much, and, lo, it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the Lord of hosts. Because of mine house that is waste, and ye run every man unto his own house. 10Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed from her fruit. 11And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the corn, and upon the new wine, and upon the oil, and upon that which the ground bringeth forth, and upon men, and upon cattle, and upon all the labor of the hands.
12Then Zerub´babel the son of She-al´ti-el, and Joshua the son of Jos´edech, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed the voice of the Lord their God, and the words of Hag´gai the prophet, as the Lord their God had sent him, and the people did fear before the Lord. 13Then spake Hag´gai the Lord's messenger in the Lord's message unto the people, saying, I am with you, saith the Lord. 14And the Lord stirred up the spirit of Zerub´babel the son of She-al´ti-el, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Jos´edech, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they came and did work in the house of the Lord of hosts, their God, 15in the four and twentieth day of the sixth month, in the second year of Dari´us the king.
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