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  • OT: Masoretic Hebrew
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  • Protestant (66 books)
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  • 1890
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1 In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, on the first day of the month, came the word of Jehovah by the prophet Haggai unto Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, saying,
1 In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, Yahweh’s word came by Haggai the prophet, to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, saying,
2 Thus speaketh Jehovah of hosts, saying, This people say, The time is not come, the time that Jehovah's house should be built.
2 “This is what Yahweh of Armies says: These people say, ‘The time hasn’t yet come, the time for Yahweh’s house to be built.’”
3 And the word of Jehovah came by Haggai the prophet, saying,
3 Then Yahweh’s word came by Haggai the prophet, saying,
4 Is it time for you that ye should dwell in your wainscoted houses, while this house lieth waste?
4 “Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while this house lies waste?
5 And now thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Consider your ways.
5 Now therefore this is what Yahweh of Armies says: ‘Consider your ways.
6 Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but are not satisfied; ye drink, but are not filled with drink; ye clothe yourselves, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages for a bag with holes.
6 You have sown much, and bring in little. You eat, but you don’t have enough. You drink, but you aren’t filled with drink. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm; and he who earns wages earns wages to put them into a bag with holes in it.’
7 Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Consider your ways.
7 “This is what Yahweh of Armies says: ‘Consider your ways.
8 Go up to the mountain and bring wood, and build the house, and I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, saith Jehovah.
8 Go up to the mountain, bring wood, and build the house. I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified,” says Yahweh.
9 Ye looked for much, and behold it was little; and when ye brought it home, I blew upon it. Wherefore? saith Jehovah of hosts. Because of my house that lieth waste, whilst ye run every man to his own house.
9 “You looked for much, and, behold, it came to little; and when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why?” says Yahweh of Armies, “Because of my house that lies waste, while each of you is busy with his own house.
10 Therefore over you the heavens withhold their dew, and the earth withholdeth its fruit.
10 Therefore for your sake the heavens withhold the dew, and the earth withholds its fruit.
11 And 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 man, and upon cattle, and upon all the labour of the hands.
11 I called for a drought on the land, on the mountains, on the grain, on the new wine, on the oil, on that which the ground produces, on men, on livestock, and on all the labor of the hands.”
12 And Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and all the remnant of the people, hearkened to the voice of Jehovah their God, and the words of Haggai the prophet, according as Jehovah their God had sent him, and the people feared before Jehovah.
12 Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed Yahweh their God’s voice, and the words of Haggai the prophet, as Yahweh their God had sent him; and the people feared Yahweh.
13 Then spoke Haggai, Jehovah's messenger, in Jehovah's message unto the people, saying, I am with you, saith Jehovah.
13 Then Haggai, Yahweh’s messenger, spoke Yahweh’s message to the people, saying, “I am with you,” says Yahweh.
14 And Jehovah stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they came and worked at the house of Jehovah of hosts, their God,
14 Yahweh stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they came and worked on the house of Yahweh of Armies, their God,
15 in the four and twentieth day of the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king.
15 in the twenty-fourth day of the month, in the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king.

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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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  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)