Haggai 1:8 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ 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 the LORD. ”

Haggai 1:8 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Go up into the mountain - Not Mount Lebanon, from where the cedars had been brought for the first temple; from where also Zerubbabel and Joshua had procured some out of Cyrus’ grant Ezra 3:7 , a...
Haggai 1:8 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Go (f) up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the house; and (g) I will take pleasure in it, and I will (h) be glorified, saith the LORD. (f) Meaning, that they should leave their own benefit...
Haggai 1:8 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Haggai 1:8 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

mountain . hill country. take pleasure . he pleased therewith. I will be glorified . I will get Me honour. Hebrew text has 'ekkabda. This is one in. list of twenty-nine words which are without...
Haggai 1:8 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

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 the LORD. Go up to the mountain, and bring wood - Go to Lebanon, and get tim...
Haggai 1:8 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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 the LORD. Go up to the mountain - Moriah (Rosenmuller); Lebanon (Hen...
Haggai 1:8 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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 1:8 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

The mountain. — No one mountain is thought of. The term implies the high lands generally, as growing the most suitable timber for building purposes.
Haggai 1:8 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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...
Haggai 1:8 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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...
Haggai 1:8 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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...
Haggai 1:8 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

"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;...
Haggai 1:8 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Go up to the mountain ,.... Or, "that mountain" u; pointing either to Lebanon, to cut down cedars, and bring them from thence for the building of the temple; or Mount Moriah, on which the temple was...
Haggai 1:8 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

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 the LORD. Ver. 8. Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, &c. ] Set up...
Haggai 1:8 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Go up to the mountain Go to any of the forests upon the mountains: see Nehemiah 2:8 : and cut down timber to carry on the building; or go to the mountain of Moriah, which I have chosen to build my...
Haggai 1:8 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Jews Reproved; God's Controversy with the Jews; The Prophet's Good Advice. B. C. 520. 1...
Haggai 1:8 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Go up, delay no longer, speed ye up to the mountain; Moriah, or Zion, better Lebanon, where best and greatest store of cedars were to be had, whence came the goodly cedars which built Solomon's tem...
Haggai 1:8 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Haggai 1:8 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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...
Haggai 1:8 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

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 1:8 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
Haggai 1:8 - The Biblical Illustrator

Bring wood, and build the house. The building rising I. An important operation engaged in. “Building the house.” 1. Its actual nature. The building of the temple of God on Mount Zion. Solomo...
Haggai 1:8 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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...
Haggai 1:8 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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 1:8 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Kings 9:3 ; 2 Chronicles 2:8-10 ; 2 Chronicles 7:16 ; Exodus 29:43 ; Ezra 3:7 ; Ezra 6:4 ; Haggai 1:2-4 ; Haggai 2:7 ; Isaiah 60:13 ; Isaiah 60:7 ; Isaiah 66:11 ; John 13:31 ; John 13:...
Haggai 1:8 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Take pleasure — I will accept your offerings, and hear your prayers. Glorified — Shew my majesty and account myself glorified by you also.

Haggai 1:8 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Haggai 1:8 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Haggai 1:8 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Haggai 1:8 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Haggai 1:8 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Haggai 1:8 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Haggai 1:8 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Haggai 1:8 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Haggai 1:8 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Haggai 1:8 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Haggai 1:8 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Haggai 1:8 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Haggai 1:8 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Haggai 1:8 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Haggai 1:8 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Haggai 1:8 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Haggai 1:8 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Haggai 1:8 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Haggai 1:8 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Haggai 1:8 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Haggai 1:8 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Haggai 1:8 - The Biblical Illustrator

Haggai 1:8 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Haggai 1:8 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Haggai 1:8 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Haggai 1:8 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes