_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,_ Ver. 1. _In the second year of Darius the... [ 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. Ver. 2. _Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts, saying_] This title is oft used in these three last prophecies (eighteen different times in that eighth of Zechariah) because, be... [ Continue Reading ]
_Then came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet, saying,_ Ver. 3. _Then came the word of the Lord, &c._] "Then," after a short silence, as it were, _profertur Domini quasi cogitata responsio,_ follows the Lord's elaborate and deliberate answer, not without some touch of holy tartness at their... [ Continue Reading ]
Haggai 1:4 [Is it] time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house [lie] waste? Ver. 4. _Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your ceiled houses, &c._] Not covered only, but ceiled with cedar (as the Chaldee here hath it), arched and garnished, as the Greek, carved and trimmed,... [ Continue Reading ]
Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways. Ver. 5. _Now therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts_] Haggai was but a young man, saith Epiphanius: now, therefore, lest any one that heard him should despise his youth, and slight his doctrine, he shows his authority, he comes to them... [ 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. Ver. 6. _Ye have sown much and bring in little_] This was visible to... [ Continue Reading ]
Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways. Ver. 7. _Consider your ways_] See Haggai 1:5. Do it early and earnestly. _Excutite vos, iterumque excutite,_ as Tremellius rendereth that in Zephaniah 2:1 "Search you, search you, O nation not worthy to be beloved." So Lamentations 3:40 "Let us sear... [ 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. Ver. 8. _Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, &c._] Set upon the work, and be serious; build the temple with like zeal as Baruch repaired the wall, Nehemiah 3:20, _... [ 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. Ver. 9. _Ye looked for much, and, lo, it came to little_] _Spes in oculis, luctus in man... [ Continue Reading ]
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 ever _in fuga,_ in flight, as the philosopher hath it, and must be maintained by meat, as the fire... [ 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. Ver. 11. _than call for a drought &c._] and so for a de... [ 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. Ver. 12. _Then Zerubba... [ 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. Ver. 13. Then spake Haggai the Lord's messenger] Or angel. _See Trapp on "_ Mal 1:1 _"_ (Then speaks) Namely, on the four and twentieth day of the month, as it is in the last verse... [ 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, Ver. 14. _And the Lord s... [ Continue Reading ]
In the four and twentieth day of the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king. Ver. 15. _In the four and twentieth day_] _See Trapp on "_ Hag 1:13 _"_ The time is diligently noted, to teach us to take good note of the moments of time, wherein matters of moment have been, by God's help, be... [ Continue Reading ]