Haggai 1:8 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

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 the letter He (= H) at the end (see Ginshurg's Massorah, vol. I, p. 281). App-30. This letter. five (App-10), and later Talmudists regard it as betokening the fact that five things were lacking in the second Temple, viz.: (1) the ark; (2) the sacred fire; (3) the Shekinah; (4) the Urim and Thummim; and (5) the spirit of prophecy. This list is to safeguard (App-93) the other occurrences of the word, which have this letter at the end, among them being Exodus 14:4; Exodus 14:17. These constitute. reference to Pent, with Leviticus 10:3 (which, like Haggai 1:8, is without the). App-92.

saith the LORD. hath said Jehovah.

Haggai 1:8

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 the LORD.