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 disobedience, withholds its goods from them (cf. Jeremiah 2:12).
Verse Haggai 1:10. _THEREFORE THE HEAVEN OVER YOU IS STAYED FROM DEW_] It appears from the following verse that God had sent a drought upon the land, which threatened them with scarcity and famine....
THEREFORE, FOR YOU, - on your account; (As in Ps. 44:43.) for your sins, (Jon.) He points out the moral cause of the drought, whereas men think of this or that cause of the variations of the seasons,...
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS CHAPTER 1:1-11 Haggai's First Address _ 1. The introduction (Habakkuk 1:1) _ 2. The reproof (Habakkuk 1:2) 3. Consider your ways (Habakkuk 1:7)...
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. This house means...
THE HEAVEN, &C. Reference to Pentateuch (Leviticus 26:19; Deuteronomy 28:23). App-92. DEW. See note on Psalms 133:3. AND. Note the Figure of speech _Polysyndeton_ (App-6), emphasizing
Having pointed out in ver. 8 the way of amendment and prosperity, the prophet resumes in these verses the expostulation of vv. 4 6, and again insists upon the depressed condition of the people and its...
_the heaven over you_, &c. Lit. UPON YOU ARE STAYED THE HEAVENS. Some understand by "upon" or "against" you, "on your account," on account of, or in punishment of your sins (_for your sake_, R. V. tex...
_SEE HOW MUCH WE NEED GOD -- HAGGAI 1:9-11:_ Our failure to obey God makes it impossible for Him to bless us. These people expected much, but received only a little. Even the little that they had woul...
CHAPTER XXIV EXPOSITION OF HAGGAI THE FIRST MESSAGE. Haggai 1:1-15 RV. In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, came the word of Jehovah by Haggai th...
1:10 you (a-3) Or 'for your sake.'...
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.)....
NEVER *GIVE UP! HAGGAI _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ THE STORY OF HAGGAI The *Jews did not obey God. He sent them into exile. This was 587 B.C. (B.C. means years Before Christ came to earth.) Exile means t...
OVER YOU. — Better, _on your account._ — _Scil.,_ because of the neglect of God’s House, mentioned in Haggai 1:9....
עַל ־כֵּ֣ן עֲלֵיכֶ֔ם כָּלְא֥וּ שָׁמַ֖יִם מִ ט
HAGGAI AND THE BUILDING OF THE TEMPLE Haggai 1:1; Haggai 2:1 WE have seen that the most probable solution of the problems presented to us by the inadequate and confused records of the time is that a...
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 when Jeru...
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 excusin...
"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; C...
Lectures on the Minor Prophets. W. Kelly. The prophet Haggai is the first of those who followed the captivity. There is great simplicity in his testimony. Nevertheless we shall find the Spirit of Chr...
He confirms what the last verse contains—that God had made it evident that he was displeased with the people because their zeal for religion had become cold, and, especially, because they were all str...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 1 AND 2. The last three prophets prophesied after the Babylonish captivity. God, as we have seen in the books of Ezra and Nehemiah, brought back a small remna...
THEREFORE THE HEAVEN OVER YOU IS STAYED FROM DEW,.... Or, "therefore over", or "upon you" a; where should be a stop; that is, because, of your neglect of the house of God; therefore upon you, and upon...
Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed [from] her fruit. Ver. 10. _Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from rain, &c._] It is never well with man (whose life is...
_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 te...
Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, withholding the moisture necessary to insure full crops, AND THE EARTH IS STAYED FROM HER FRUIT, it does not yield even its ordinary harvest....
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 eagerness...
1-11 Observe the sin of the Jews, after their return from captivity in Babylon. Those employed for God may be driven from their work by a storm, yet they must go back to it. They did not say that the...
THEREFORE; for your great intolerable neglect of God, his house and worship. THE HEAVEN, Heb. _heavens_. is stayed; shut up, sealed, prohibited; God, whose they are, hath forbidden them, they drop not...
Haggai 1:10 heavens H8064 withhold H3607 (H8804) dew H2919 earth H776 withholds H3607 (H8804) fruit H2981...
YHWH'S GRIEVANCE WITH HIS PEOPLE (HAGGAI 1:2). 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 that until...
Haggai 1:1. _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...
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 ha...
CONTENTS: Jehovah's chastening because of the interrupted work on His house. The work on the temple recommenced. CHARACTERS: God, Darius, Haggai, Zerubbabel, Joshua. CONCLUSION: Those are strangers t...
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 Zerub...
_Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed from her fruit._ NATURE PENALTIES With respect to the withholding of dew and of produce, we know that the prophets took from...
HAGGAI—NOTE ON HAGGAI 1:3 Consider Your Ways: Fruitless Prosperity. In this second word to Haggai, the Lord asks his people to consider whether their wealth brings satisfaction. He encourages them to...
HAGGAI—NOTE ON HAGGAI 1:10 THEREFORE.... DROUGHT. There is a direct connection between the ruin of the Lord’s house (vv. Haggai 1:4,...
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;...
EXPOSITION HAGGAI 1:1 Part I. THE FIRST ADDRESS: EXHORTATION TO BUILD THE TEMPLE AND ITS RESULT....
Haggai Then we go to Haggai who prophesied in the second year of Darius the king. This is not the Darius of Daniel's fame who was the Persian general when Babylon fell, but this is a Darius who came a...
1 Kings 17:1; 1 Kings 8:35; Deuteronomy 28:23; Deuteronomy 28:24;...
Is stayed — God hath forbidden them, to drop down dew....