“ Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Considerd your ways. ”
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...
The Prophet now adds, that since the Jews were thus taught by their evils, nothing else remained for them but to prepare themselves without delay for the work of building the Temple; for they w...
Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.
Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways. No JFB commentary on this verse.
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.).
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;...
Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Consider your ways. What they have been; what has been the consequence of them; and to what the above things are to be ascribed. This exhortation is repeated, to impre...
Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways. Ver. 7. Consider your ways ] See Haggai 1:5 . Do it early and earnestly. Excutite vos, iterumque excutite, as Tremellius rendereth that in Zep...
The Jews Reproved; God's Controversy with the Jews; The Prophet's Good Advice. B. C. 520. 1...
See Haggai 1:5 . Debate it with yourselves, both as to what is already past, and what will be for time to come; it hath not been a chance, or an evil which none can tell whence it proceeds, it is...
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...
Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Consider your ways. The call of God I. The person who issues this command. Note the Divine character of the speaker. The “Lord of hosts.” This name, containing in...
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...
Haggai 1:5 ; Isaiah 28:10 ; Philippians 3:1 ; Psalms 119:59 ; Psalms 119:60