Haggai 1:4 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house lie waste? Is it time for you - If the time be not come to rebuild the temple, it cannot be come for you to build yourselves comfortable houses: but ye are rebuilding your houses; why then do ye not rebuild the house of the Lord? The foundation of the temple had been laid fourteen years before, and some considerable progress made in the building; and it had been lying waste in that unfinished state to the present time.