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Haggai 1 Bible in Basic English

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  • Scholarly edition
  • OT: Masoretic Hebrew (not verified)
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  • Protestant (66 books)
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  • 1965
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BBE Bible in Basic English
RV1909 Reina-Valera 1909
1 In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, on the first day of the month, came the word of the Lord by Haggai the prophet to Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, ruler of Judah, and to Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, saying,
1 EN el año segundo del rey Darío en el mes sexto, en el primer día del mes, fué palabra de Jehová, por mano del profeta Haggeo, á Zorobabel hijo de Sealtiel, gobernador de Judá, y á Josué hijo de Josadac, gran sacerdote, diciendo:
2 These are the words of the Lord of armies: These people say, The time has not come for building the Lord's house.
2 Jehová de los ejércitos habla así, diciendo: Este pueblo dice: No es aún venido el tiempo, el tiempo de que la casa de Jehová sea reedificada.
3 Then the word of the Lord came by Haggai the prophet, saying,
3 Fué pues palabra de Jehová por mano del profeta Haggeo, diciendo:
4 Is it a time for you to be living in roofed houses while this house is a waste?
4 ¿Es para vosotros tiempo, para vosotros, de morar en vuestras casas enmaderadas, y esta casa está desierta?
5 For this cause the Lord of armies has said, Give thought to your ways.
5 Pues así ha dicho Jehová de los ejércitos: Pensad bien sobre vuestros caminos.
6 Much has been planted, but little got in; you take food, but have not enough; you take drink, but are not full; you are clothed, but no one is warm; and he who gets payment for his work, gets it to put it into a bag full of holes.
6 Sembráis mucho, y encerráis poco; coméis, y no os hartáis; bebéis, y no os saciáis; os vestís, y no os calentáis; y el que anda á jornal recibe su jornal en trapo horadado.
7 This is what the Lord of armies has said: Give thought to your ways.
7 Así ha dicho Jehová de los ejércitos: Meditad sobre vuestros caminos.
8 Go up to the hills and get wood and put up the house; and I will take pleasure in it and be honoured, says the Lord.
8 Subid al monte, y traed madera, y reedificad la casa; y pondré en ella mi voluntad, y seré honrado, ha dicho Jehová.
9 You were looking for much, and it came to little; and when you got it into your house, I took it away with a breath. Why? says the Lord of armies. Because of my house which is a waste, while every man takes care of the house which is his.
9 Buscáis mucho, y halláis poco; y encerráis en casa, y soplo en ello. ¿Por qué? dice Jehová de los ejércitos. Por cuanto mi casa está desierta, y cada uno de vosotros corre á su propia casa.
10 For this cause the heaven over you is kept from giving dew, and the earth from giving her fruit.
10 Por eso se detuvo de los cielos sobre vosotros la lluvia, y la tierra detuvo sus frutos.
11 And by my order no rain came on the land or on the mountains or the grain or the wine or the oil or the produce of the earth or on men or cattle or on any work of man's hands.
11 Y llamé la sequedad sobre esta tierra, y sobre los montes, y sobre el trigo, y sobre el vino, y sobre el aceite, y sobre todo lo que la tierra produce, y sobre los hombres y sobre las bestias, y sobre todo trabajo de manos.
12 Then Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and all the rest of the people, gave ear to the voice of the Lord their God and to the words of Haggai the prophet, because the Lord their God had sent him, and the people were in fear before the Lord.
12 Y oyó Zorobabel hijo de Sealtiel, y Josué hijo de Josadac, gran sacerdote, y todo el demás pueblo, la voz de Jehová su Dios, y las palabras del profeta Haggeo, como lo había enviado Jehová el Dios de ellos; y temió el pueblo delante de Jehová.
13 Then Haggai, whom the Lord had sent to give his words to the people, said, I am with you, says the Lord.
13 Entonces Haggeo, enviado de Jehová, habló por mandado de Jehová, al pueblo, diciendo: Yo soy con vosotros, dice Jehová.
14 And the spirit of Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, ruler of Judah, was moved by the Lord, as was the spirit of Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of all the rest of the people; and they came and did work in the house of the Lord of armies, their God.
14 Y despertó Jehová el espíritu de Zorobabel hijo de Sealtiel, gobernador de Judá, y el espíritu de Josué hijo de Josadac, gran sacerdote, y el espíritu de todo el resto del pueblo; y vinieron é hicieron obra en la casa de Jehová de los ejércitos, su Dios,
15 On the twenty-fourth day of the month, in the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king.
15 En el día veinte y cuatro del mes sexto, en el segundo año del rey Darío.

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  • Haggai

    Prophet during the temple rebuilding

    Prophet who, with Zechariah, prophesied to the Jews in Judah and Jerusalem and helped Zerubbabel and Jeshua as the temple was rebuilt. The word of the LORD came through him in the…

    Cited in the guide: Ezra 5:1; Ezra 6:14; Haggai 1:1

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  • Shealtiel

    Son of Jeconiah

    A son of the exiled king, a link between fallen throne and hoped-for return.

    Cited in the guide: 1 Chron. 3:17; Ezra 3:2; Hag. 1:1; Matt. 1:12; Luke 3:27

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Cross references (15)

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  1. 1 Ezra 2:2; Ezra 3:2; Ezra 3:8; Nehemiah 7:7; Haggai 2:10
  2. 2 Ezra 4:23–5:2; Nehemiah 4:10; Ecclesiastes 9:10; Ecclesiastes 11:4; Song of Songs 5:2–3
  3. 3 Ezra 5:1; Zechariah 1:1
  4. 4 2 Samuel 7:2; Psalm 132:3–5; Philippians 2:21; Haggai 1:9; Matthew 6:33
  5. 5 Lamentations 3:40; 2 Corinthians 13:5; Haggai 2:15–18; Haggai 1:7; Luke 15:17
  6. 6 Haggai 1:9; Hosea 4:10; Deuteronomy 28:38–40; Haggai 2:16; Hosea 8:7
  7. 7 Psalm 119:59–60; Haggai 1:5; Philippians 3:1
  8. 8 Psalm 132:13–14; 2 Chronicles 7:16; 2 Chronicles 2:8–10; Haggai 2:7; 1 Kings 9:3
  9. 9 Haggai 1:4; Malachi 2:2; Haggai 2:16–17; Revelation 3:19; Psalm 77:5–10
  10. 10 1 Kings 8:35; Leviticus 26:19; 1 Kings 17:1; Deuteronomy 28:23–24; Joel 1:18–20
  11. 11 Haggai 2:17; Deuteronomy 28:22; 2 Kings 8:1; 1 Kings 17:1; Amos 5:8
  12. 12 Isaiah 50:10; Haggai 1:14; Psalm 112:1; Ezra 5:2; Ecclesiastes 12:13
  13. 13 Isaiah 43:2; Matthew 28:20; Malachi 3:1; Romans 8:31; Psalm 46:11
  14. 14 2 Chronicles 36:22; Hebrews 13:21; Haggai 1:1; Haggai 2:21; Ezra 1:5
  15. 15 Haggai 1:1; Haggai 2:20; Haggai 2:1; Haggai 2:10

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What the Fathers said

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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).

  1. Quotes verse 1:1 Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms (Psalm CXLIX)

    For if the Word be not in their hands, why is it written, "The Word of the Lord was put in the hand of the Prophet Haggai"? Surely, brethren, God set not His Word in His fingers.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)