1 In the second year of the reign of Darius, on the first day of the sixth month, the word of the LORD came through Haggai the prophet to Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, stating 2 that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “These people say, ‘The time has not yet come to rebuild the house of the LORD.’” 3 Then the word of the LORD came through Haggai the prophet, saying: 4 “Is it a time for you yourselves to live in your paneled houses, while this house lies in ruins?” 5 Now this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Consider carefully your ways. 6 You have planted much but harvested little. You eat but never have enough. You drink but never have your fill. You put on clothes but never get warm. You earn wages to put into a bag pierced through.” 7 This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Consider carefully your ways. 8 Go up into the hills, bring down lumber, and build the house, so that I may take pleasure in it and be glorified, says the LORD. 9 You expected much, but behold, it amounted to little. And what you brought home, I blew away. Why? declares the LORD of Hosts. Because My house still lies in ruins, while each of you is busy with his own house. 10 Therefore, on account of you the heavens have withheld their dew and the earth has withheld its crops. 11 I have summoned a drought on the fields and on the mountains, on the grain, new wine, and oil, and on whatever the ground yields, on man and beast, and on all the labor of your hands.” 12 Then Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, as well as all the remnant of the people, 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. 13 Haggai, the messenger of the LORD, delivered the message of the LORD to the people: “I am with you,” declares the LORD. 14 So the LORD stirred the spirit of Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, as well as the spirit of all the remnant of the people. And they came and began the work on the house of the LORD of Hosts, their God, 15 on the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month, in the second year of King Darius.
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Haggai
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
Shealtiel
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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- 1 Ezra 2:2; Ezra 3:2; Ezra 3:8; Nehemiah 7:7; Haggai 2:10
- 2 Ezra 4:23–5:2; Nehemiah 4:10; Ecclesiastes 9:10; Ecclesiastes 11:4; Song of Songs 5:2–3
- 3 Ezra 5:1; Zechariah 1:1
- 4 2 Samuel 7:2; Psalm 132:3–5; Philippians 2:21; Haggai 1:9; Matthew 6:33
- 5 Lamentations 3:40; 2 Corinthians 13:5; Haggai 2:15–18; Haggai 1:7; Luke 15:17
- 6 Haggai 1:9; Hosea 4:10; Deuteronomy 28:38–40; Haggai 2:16; Hosea 8:7
- 7 Psalm 119:59–60; Haggai 1:5; Philippians 3:1
- 8 Psalm 132:13–14; 2 Chronicles 7:16; 2 Chronicles 2:8–10; Haggai 2:7; 1 Kings 9:3
- 9 Haggai 1:4; Malachi 2:2; Haggai 2:16–17; Revelation 3:19; Psalm 77:5–10
- 10 1 Kings 8:35; Leviticus 26:19; 1 Kings 17:1; Deuteronomy 28:23–24; Joel 1:18–20
- 11 Haggai 2:17; Deuteronomy 28:22; 2 Kings 8:1; 1 Kings 17:1; Amos 5:8
- 12 Isaiah 50:10; Haggai 1:14; Psalm 112:1; Ezra 5:2; Ecclesiastes 12:13
- 13 Isaiah 43:2; Matthew 28:20; Malachi 3:1; Romans 8:31; Psalm 46:11
- 14 2 Chronicles 36:22; Hebrews 13:21; Haggai 1:1; Haggai 2:21; Ezra 1:5
- 15 Haggai 1:1; Haggai 2:20; Haggai 2:1; Haggai 2:10
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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)