In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet unto Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, saying, IN THE SECOND YEAR OF DARIUS - Hystaspes,... [ Continue Reading ]
Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, This people say, The time is not come, the time that the LORD's house should be built. THUS SPEAKETH THE LORD OF HOSTS - Yahweh, Lord of the powers of heaven and earth, and therefore requiring implicit obedience. THIS PEOPLE SAY - This sluggish and self... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN CAME THE WORD OF THE LORD BY HAGGAI THE PROPHET, SAYING,_ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house lie waste? Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house lie waste? IS IT TIME. It is not time (), ye say, to build Yahweh's house; yet how is it that ye make it a fit time not only to build, but... [ Continue Reading ]
Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways. NOW THEREFORE THUS SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS; CONSIDER YOUR WAYS - literally, Set your heart on your ways. The plural implies, Consider both what ye have done (actively, ) and what ye have suffered (passively) (Jerome). Ponder earnest... [ Continue Reading ]
Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes. YE HAVE SOWN MUCH, AND BRING IN LITTLE. Nothing has prospered with yo... [ Continue Reading ]
_THUS SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS; CONSIDER YOUR WAYS._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
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 (Henderson). Rather, generally, the mountains around, now covered with wood, the growth of the long period of... [ Continue Reading ]
Ye looked for much, and, lo, it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the LORD of hosts. Because of mine house that is waste, and ye run every man unto his own house. YE LOOKED FOR MUCH - literally, "looked," so as to turn your eyes to much. The Hebrew infin... [ Continue Reading ]
Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed from her fruit. THEREFORE THE HEAVEN OVER YOU IS STAYED FROM DEW - literally, stays itself. Thus, heaven, or the sky, is personified; implying that inanimate nature obeys Yahweh's will; and, shocked at His people's disobed... [ Continue Reading ]
And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the corn, and upon the new wine, and upon the oil, and upon that which the ground bringeth forth, and upon men, and upon cattle, and upon all the labour of the hands. AND I CALLED FOR. What the "heaven" and "earth," the s... [ Continue Reading ]
Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed the voice of the LORD their God, and the words of Haggai the prophet, as the LORD their God had sent him, and the people did fear before the LORD. THEN ZERUBBABEL ...... [ Continue Reading ]
Then spake Haggai the LORD's messenger in the LORD's message unto the people, saying, I am with you, saith the LORD. THEN SPAKE HAGGAI THE LORD'S MESSENGER - so the priests () are called (cf. ; ). IN THE LORD'S MESSAGE - i:e., invested with the Lord's authority and commission: on the Lord's em... [ Continue Reading ]
And the LORD stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they came and did work in the house of the LORD of hosts, their God, AND THE LORD STIRRED... [ Continue Reading ]
In the four and twentieth day of the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king. IN THE FOUR AND TWENTIETH DAY - 23 days after the first message of Haggai (), "in the first day of the month." Remarks: (1) In the inspiration of the men by whose 'hand' (margin, ) Scripture hath come, God... [ Continue Reading ]