1 In the seventh month, on the twenty-first [day] of the month, the Lord spoke by Aggæus the prophet, saying, 2 Speak now to Zorobabel the son of Salathiel, of the tribe of Juda, and to Jesus the son of Josedec, the high priest, and to all the remnant of the people, saying, 3 Who [is there] of you that saw this house in her former glory? and how do ye now look upon it, as it were nothing before your eyes? 4 Yet now be strong, O Zorobabel, saith the Lord; and strengthen thyself, O Jesus the high priest, the son of Josedec; and let all the people of the land strengthen themselves, saith the Lord, and work, for I am with you, saith the Lord Almighty; 5 and my Spirit remains in the midst of you; be of good courage. 6 For thus saith the Lord Almighty; Yet once I will shake the heaven, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry [land]; 7 and I will shake all nations, and the choice [portions] of all the nations shall come: and I will fill this house with glory, saith the Lord Almighty. 8 Mine is the silver, and mine the gold, saith the Lord Almighty. 9 For the glory of this house shall be great, the latter more than the former, saith the Lord Almighty: and in this place will I give peace, saith the Lord Almighty, even peace of soul for a possession to every one that builds, to raise up this temple. 10 On the four and twentieth [day] of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came to Aggæus the prophet, saying, 11 Thus saith the Lord Almighty; Inquire now of the priests [concerning] the law, saying, 12 If a man should take holy flesh in the skirt of his garment, and the skirt of his garment should touch bread, or pottage, or wine, or oil, or any meat, shall it be holy? And the priests answered and said, No. 13 And Aggæus said, If a defiled person who is unclean by reason of a dead body, touch any of these, shall it be defiled? And the priests answered and said, It shall be defiled. 14 And Aggæus answered and said, So is this people, and so is this nation before me, saith the Lord; and so are all the works of their hands: and whosoever shall approach them, shall be defiled [because of their early burdens: they shall be pained because of their toils; and ye have hated him that reproved in the gates]. 15 And now consider, I pray you, from this day and beforetime, before they laid a stone on a stone in the temple of the Lord, what manner of men ye were. 16 When ye cast into the corn-bin twenty measures of barley, and there were [only] ten measures of barley: and ye went to the vat to draw out fifty measures, and there were [but] twenty. 17 I smote you with barrenness, and with blasting, and all the works of your hands with hail; yet ye returned not to me, saith the Lord. 18 Set your hearts now [to think] from this day and upward, from the four and twentieth [day] of the ninth month, even from the day when the foundation of the temple of the Lord was laid; 19 consider in your hearts, whether [this] shall be known on the corn-floor, and whether yet the vine, and the fig-tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive-trees that bear no fruit [are with you]: from this day will I bless [you]. 20 And the word of the Lord came the second time to Aggæus the prophet, on the four and twentieth [day] of the month, saying, 21 Speak to Zorobabel the son of Salathiel, of the tribe of Juda, saying, I shake the heaven, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry [land]; 22 and I will overthrow the thrones of kings, and I will destroy the power of the kings of the nations; and I will overthrow chariots and riders; and the horses and their riders shall come down, every one by the sword striving against his brother. 23 In that day, saith the Lord Almighty, I will take thee, O Zorobabel, the son of Salathiel, my servant, saith the Lord, and will make thee as a seal: for I have chosen thee, saith the Lord Almighty.
Haggai · Brenton's English Septuagint
Haggai 2 Brenton's English Septuagint
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- Square brackets mark words Brenton supplied for English sense.
- Old Testament only (no New Testament). First printed 1844; the 1851 edition added the deuterocanonical books.
Cross references (22)
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- 1 2 Peter 1:21; Haggai 2:20; Haggai 1:1; Haggai 2:10; Haggai 1:15
- 2 Haggai 1:1; Haggai 1:14; Ezra 1:8; Nehemiah 8:9; Ezra 2:63
- 3 Ezra 3:12; Luke 21:5–6; Haggai 2:9; Zechariah 4:9–10; Ezekiel 7:20
- 4 1 Chronicles 28:20; Joshua 1:9; Zechariah 8:9; Deuteronomy 31:23; 2 Samuel 5:10
- 5 Exodus 29:45–46; Exodus 34:10; Isaiah 41:13; Nehemiah 9:20; Zechariah 8:13
- 6 Hebrews 12:26–28; Isaiah 10:25; Luke 21:25–27; Mark 13:24–26; Acts 2:19
- 7 Malachi 3:1; 1 Kings 8:11; Luke 2:10–11; John 7:37–39; Luke 2:27
- 8 Psalm 50:10–12; Psalm 24:1; 1 Chronicles 29:14–16; Isaiah 60:17; Isaiah 60:13
- 9 Psalm 85:8–9; Colossians 1:19–21; 2 Corinthians 3:9–10; Psalm 24:7–10; 1 Timothy 3:16
- 10 Haggai 2:20; Haggai 1:1; Haggai 1:15–2:1
- 11 Leviticus 10:10–11; Malachi 2:7; Deuteronomy 33:10; Titus 1:9; Deuteronomy 17:8–11
- 12 Leviticus 6:27; Matthew 23:19; Ezekiel 44:19; Leviticus 7:6; Exodus 29:37
- 13 Numbers 19:11–22; Leviticus 22:4–6; Numbers 5:2–3; Numbers 9:6–10
- 14 Titus 1:15; Proverbs 28:9; Isaiah 1:11–15; Haggai 1:4–11; Proverbs 15:8
- 15 Haggai 1:5; Ezra 3:10; Haggai 2:18; Haggai 1:7; Ezra 4:24
- 16 Haggai 1:6; Proverbs 3:9–10; Malachi 2:2; Haggai 1:9–11; Zechariah 8:10–12
- 17 Deuteronomy 28:22; Haggai 1:11; Haggai 1:9; 1 Kings 8:37; Amos 4:8–11
- 18 Zechariah 8:9; Haggai 2:15; Ezra 5:1–2; Zechariah 8:12; Deuteronomy 32:29
- 19 Malachi 3:10; Habakkuk 3:17–18; Proverbs 3:9–10; Matthew 6:33; Zechariah 8:11–15
- 21 Zechariah 4:6–10; Haggai 2:6–7; Haggai 1:1; Ezra 5:2; Hebrews 12:26–27
- 22 Micah 5:10; Judges 7:22; Micah 5:15; Psalm 46:9; Zechariah 4:6
- 23 Isaiah 43:10; Isaiah 42:1; Zechariah 4:6–14; Song of Songs 8:6; Jeremiah 22:24
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Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)
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Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)
For so, indeed, did that car nal people understand what was foretold by Haggai the prophet, saying, "The glory of this latter house shall be greater than that of the former." Now, that this is said of the new testament, he showed a little above, where he says, evidently promising Christ, "And I will move all nations, and the desired …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)
Chapter 48.--That Haggai's Prophecy, in Which He Said that the Glory of the House of God Would Be Greater Than that of the First Had Been, Was Really Fulfilled, Not in the Rebuilding of the Temple, But in the Church of Christ.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)