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    Haggai · 15 verses

    Haggai 1

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    A man may eat, drink, dress, and earn his wages, yet find the meal unfinished, the cup unsatisfying, the coat cold, and the purse already leaking.

    The house in ruinsvv. 1–11

    In the second year of Darius, on the first day of the sixth month, the LORD speaks through Haggai to Zerubbabel and Joshua. The people have said that the time has not come to rebuild the house of the LORD; meanwhile, they live in paneled houses while that house lies in ruins. Their daily disappointments are listed with almost domestic precision: much planting and little harvest, food without fullness, drink without satisfaction, clothes without warmth, and wages placed into a bag pierced through. The remedy is lumber from the hills and the rebuilding of the house. Until then, the heavens withhold dew, the earth withholds crops, and drought reaches fields, mountains, grain, wine, oil, people, beasts, and the work of their hands.

    The work beginsvv. 12–15

    Zerubbabel, Joshua, and all the remnant of the people obey the voice of the LORD and the words of Haggai, and the people fear the LORD. Haggai then delivers the message, “I am with you,” and the LORD stirs the spirits of Zerubbabel, Joshua, and the remnant. They come and begin the work on the house of the LORD of Hosts on the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month, in the second year of Darius. The chapter supplies the dates with great neatness; what passes between the first message and the beginning of the work is left uncounted.

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    1. Hag 1:1In 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. Hag 1:2that 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. Hag 1:3Then the word of the LORD came through Haggai the prophet, saying:

    4. Hag 1:4“Is it a time for you yourselves to live in your paneled houses, while this house lies in ruins?”

    5. Hag 1:5Now this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Consider carefully your ways.

    6. Hag 1:6You 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. Hag 1:7This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Consider carefully your ways.

    8. Hag 1:8Go 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. Hag 1:9You 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. Hag 1:10Therefore, on account of you the heavens have withheld their dew and the earth has withheld its crops.

    11. Hag 1:11I 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. Hag 1:12Then 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. Hag 1:13Haggai, the messenger of the LORD, delivered the message of the LORD to the people: “I am with you,” declares the LORD.

    14. Hag 1:14So 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. Hag 1:15on the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month, in the second year of King Darius.

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    • 6Haggai 1:9You 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.
    • 6Hosea 4:10They will eat but not be satisfied; they will be promiscuous but not multiply. For they have abandoned the LORD to give themselves
    • 6Deuteronomy 28:38–40You will sow much seed in the field but harvest little, because the locusts will consume it.
    • 42 Samuel 7:2he said to Nathan the prophet, “Here I am, living in a house of cedar, while the ark of God remains in a tent.”
    • 5Lamentations 3:40Let us examine and test our ways, and turn back to the LORD.
    • 6Malachi 3:9–11You are cursed with a curse, yet you—the whole nation—are still robbing Me.
    • 4Psalms 132:3–5“I will not enter my house or get into my bed,
    • 7Psalms 119:59–60I considered my ways and turned my steps to Your testimonies.
    • 52 Corinthians 13:5Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith; test yourselves. Do you not realize that Jesus Christ is in you—unless you fail the test?
    • 8Psalms 132:13–14For the LORD has chosen Zion; He has desired it for His home:
    • 6Isaiah 5:10For ten acres of vineyard will yield but a bath of wine, and a homer of seed only an ephah of grain.”
    • 7Haggai 1:5Now this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Consider carefully your ways.
    • 4Philippians 2:21For all the others look after their own interests, not those of Jesus Christ.
    • 5Haggai 2:15–18Now consider carefully from this day forward: Before one stone was placed on another in the temple of the LORD,
    • 6Zechariah 8:10For before those days neither man nor beast received wages, nor was there safety from the enemy for anyone who came or went, for I had turned every man against his neighbor.
    • 12Isaiah 50:10Who among you fears the LORD and obeys the voice of His Servant? Who among you walks in darkness and has no light? Let him trust in the name of the LORD; let him lean on his God.

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