Haggai 1:12 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Then; so soon as they heard this convincing and awakening sermon. Shealtiel; who is called Salathiel, 1 Chronicles 3:17 Matthew 1:12. Joshua the son of Josedech: see Haggai 1:1. The high priest; the twenty-fourth from Aaron, as some reckon, (Alsted. Chron.,) but the first after the captivity. With all; either none were deaf to the Lord's reproof and counsel, or else none durst appear so, when the chief rulers in state and church were so forward in obeying the prophet. The people; the common people, the meaner sort. Obeyed the voice of the Lord; acknowledged that it was the sovereign Lord who spake, who ought to be obeyed, because he is the Lord. Their God; and therefore they ought to do his will, that they might receive the blessings which he, as their God, had promised to them. As God made this an argument to obedience, so do these now; We are thy people, thou art our God. The words of Haggai: this interprets the former, the voice of the Lord was the words of Haggai, he added nothing of his own to them. As the Lord their God had sent him; according to all for which the Lord had sent and commissioned him, or particularly in all that concerned the speedy building of the temple. The people did fear before the Lord: this speaks the right religious frame of heart in this people at this time.