“ Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Considerb your ways. ”
And now, thus saith the Lord of hosts; “Consider,” (literally “set your heart upon) your ways,” what they had been doing, what they were doing, and what those doings had led to, and would lead to....
Haggai 1:2 . Read mg. Haggai 1:3 . is a superfluous editorial addition. Haggai 1:4 . A cieled house was one lined with timber, ordinary houses being left as rough inside as outside. Th...
Consider . Set your heart on, or give your attention to. Occurs five times. this hook ( Haggai 1:5 ; Haggai 1:7 ; Haggai 2:15 ; Haggai 2:18 ; Haggai 2:18 ). Compare Job 1:8 ; Job 2:3 . Isaiah...
Here the Prophet deals with the refractory people according to what their character required; for as to those who are teachable and obedient, a word is enough for them; but they who are pervers...
DISCOURSE: 1233 CONSIDERATION OF OUR WAYS ENFORCED Haggai 1:2-5 ; Haggai 1:12 . Thus speaketh the Lord of Hosts, saying, This people say, The time is not come, the time that the Lord’s house sh...
Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways. Consider your ways - Is it fit that you should be building yourselves elegant houses, and neglect a place for the worship of that God w...
Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways. Now therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts; Consider your ways - literally, Set your heart on your ways. The plural implies, Co...
A Call to Begin Building the Temple 1-11. Haggai repeatedly urges the leaders of Judah and the people to bend their energies to the rebuilding of the ruined Temple (August, 520 b.c.).
Consider your ways. — A common expression in this prophet. The results of their conduct are set forth in Haggai 1:6 : they are left to infer from these what its nature has been.
HAGGAI AND THE BUILDING OF THE TEMPLE Haggai 1:1-15 ; Haggai 2:1-23 WE have seen that the most probable solution of the problems presented to us by the inadequate and confused records of the t...
Selfish and Shortsighted Thrift Haggai 1:1-11 Zerubbabel is the Sheshbazzar of Ezra 1:8 . He was of the royal line, and appointed governor by Cyrus. Josedech was son of Seraiah, high priest wh...
The prophet Haggai delivered his first message on the first day of the sixth month in the second year of the reign of Darius. It was addressed especially to those in authority. The people were excusi...
"Then came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet, saying, (4) Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your ceiled houses, and this house lie waste? (5) Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts;...
THE CALL TO THE CHURCH ‘Consider your ways.’ Haggai 1:5 Haggai was the first prophet who rose up in the midst of the congregation of Judah, after his return from Babylon, to declare to it th...
Now therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts ,.... The Lord God omniscient and omnipotent, that saw all their actions, and could punish for them; since they were so careful of their own houses, and ad...
Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways. Ver. 5. Now therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts ] Haggai was but a young man, saith Epiphanius: now, therefore, lest any one that...
Therefore consider your ways Reflect seriously upon this affair, whether it is consistent with the reason of things, or whether you have even promoted your own happiness by it as you thought to do....
The Jews Reproved; God's Controversy with the Jews; The Prophet's Good Advice. B. C. 520. 1...
Now therefore; or, And now, or, But now , Heb.; it is time for you to consider, to set your heart to that I propose. Thus saith the Lord of hosts; the great God speaks, hearken therefore. Con...
YHWH's Grievance With His People ( Haggai 1:2-11 ). In a series of consecutive prophecies YHWH's grievance with His people is established, and the call comes to build the Temple. For YHWH knows th...
CRITICAL NOTES.] Haggai 1:5 . Consider] Lit. set your heart upon; i.e. consider your conduct and lay it to heart: a frequent formula with Haggai (cf. Haggai 1:7 ; ch. Haggai 2:15 ; Haggai 2...
The subject is the building of the second temple. The people had been busily employed in building their own houses some of them had gone to great expense and much labour upon these houses, but they h...
Haggai 1:1 . Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, the governor, or Pacha, of Judah. King Jeconiah was father of Salathiel, as the word is written in 1 Chronicles 3:17 ; and Pedaiah was father of...
Now, therefore, thus saith the Lord of hosts, Consider your ways. Preparation for self-amendment The design of this prophecy is to persuade the Jews off from that slothful security in the negle...
EXPOSITION Haggai 1:1-37 Part I. THE FIRST ADDRESS : EXHORTATION TO BUILD THE TEMPLE AND ITS RESULT . Haggai 1:1-37 § 1. The people are reproved for their indiffe...
The Indifference of the People Rebuked. When the exiles, under the leadership of Zerubbabel and Joshua, had returned to Jerusalem, they had begun the work of rebuilding the Temple with great eager...
2 Corinthians 13:5 ; Daniel 10:12 ; Daniel 6:14 ; Exodus 7:23 ; Exodus 9:21 ; Ezekiel 18:28 ; Ezekiel 40:4 ; Galatians 6:4 ; Haggai 1:7 ; Haggai 2:15-18 ; Lamentations 3:40 ; Luke 15:17 ;...
A Bird's-Eye View of Haggai Haggai INTRODUCTORY WORDS The book of Haggi opens with the building of the Lord's house. In this the Lord's people had lagged behind. The second chapter is a gr...