Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Haggai 2:15
Upward — Through past years. Before — Before you would set upon the re — building of the temple after you had intermitted it.
Upward — Through past years. Before — Before you would set upon the re — building of the temple after you had intermitted it.
AND NOW, I PRAY YOU - Observe his tenderness, in drawing their attention to it , “Consider from this day and upward.” He bids them look backward, “from before a stone was laid upon a stone,” i. e., fr...
CHAPTER 2:10-19 The Fourth Address A few months later Haggai delivered another address of moral instruction and admonition. The question the prophet asks first is answered by the priests negatively....
HAGGAI'S SERMON ON DEC. 24. Haggai bases his exhortation on a pronouncement of the priests concerning the infecting power of holiness and uncleanness respectively. In the question put to the priests,...
CONSIDER. See note on Haggai 1:5. FROM THIS DAY. The day of the prophet's message. UPWARD. above, as to place; backward, as regards time; as explained. Referring to past time, before the foundation...
The great moral lesson of the Book is again inculcated. Let them fix their attention on the long period of their neglect of God and His House; the eighteen years that had intervened, between the layin...
The Third Prophecy By a reference to the ceremonial law, as officially interpreted by the priests in answer to questions addressed to them, Haggai again impresses upon the people the truth, that the...
The A.V. is a little obscure. The verse may be rendered more clearly thus: AND NOW CONSIDER, I PRAY YON, FROM THIS DAY (the 24th day of the ninth month, on which the prophet was speaking, ver. 10 18)...
_UNFAITHFULNESS ALWAYS REAPS SAD REWARDS -- HAGGAI 2:15-19:_ The people needed to remember that before they began to rebuild he Temple that they had been disobedient to God. God punished their disobed...
THE THIRD MESSAGE. Haggai 2:10-19 RV. In the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, came the word of Jehovah by Haggai the prophet, saying, Thus saith Jehovah of host...
In the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet, saying, Sacrifices without obedience (in respect to God's command to...
2:15 consider (b-6) Lit. 'set your heart.' onward, (c-11) Lit. 'upward;' and so ver. 18. Some take it as meaning 'backward' in ver. 15....
FROM THIS DAY AND UPWARD] better, 'and onward.' He then bids them think of their past sufferings and resumes the thought here begun in Haggai 2:18. There should be a full stop after UPWARD. FROM BEFOR...
2 Words of Encouragement. The Glory of the Second Temple 1-9. An encouraging message in counteraction of disparaging comments upon the Temple structure, setting forth the significance and glory of t...
NEVER *GIVE UP! HAGGAI _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ CHAPTER 2 V1 On 17 October the *LORD spoke to Haggai the *prophet. He said, V2 ‘Speak now to: • Zerubbabel; he is leader of Judah and son of Shealtiel...
(10-19) _The Fourth Utterance. — _The recent season of scarcity is again accounted for and immediate blessings are announced. This address dates about two months later than its predecessor — viz., fro...
FROM THIS DAY AND UPWARD — _i.e.,_ backward. BEFORE A STONE WAS LAID... — Alluding to the recent resumption of building, not to the laying of the foundations fifteen years previously....
וְ עַתָּה֙ שִֽׂימוּ ־נָ֣א לְבַבְכֶ֔ם מִן ־הַ
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...
3. THE POWER OF THE UNCLEAN Haggai 2:10 Haggai's third address to the people is based on a deliverance which he seeks from the priests. The Book of Deuteronomy had provided that, in all difficult cas...
GOD'S JUDGMENT UPON THE NATIONS Haggai 2:10-23 Two months after the foregoing prophecy, the prophet again remonstrated with the people for still neglecting the Temple, though they appear to have main...
About seven weeks later Haggai delivered his second message. This was addressed to Zerubbabel the governor, Joshua the priest, and all the people. A comparison of Ezr 3:13 with this message will show...
And now, I pray you, consider from this (h) day and upward, from before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of the LORD: (h) Consider how God plagued you with famine before you began to build...
So. He makes the application of the second answer given, ver. 14. All your victims have hitherto been contaminated. I redressed not your miseries. But now, as you have begun to work at my temple, I wi...
"In the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet, saying, (11) Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Ask now the priests concern...
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...
I am under the necessity of joining all these verses together, for the Prophet treats of the same thing: and the import of the whole is this—that the Lord had then openly punished the tardiness of the...
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...
AND NOW, I PRAY YOU, CONSIDER FROM THIS DAY AND UPWARD,.... This being their case, and they so polluted with sin, particularly through their neglect of building the temple; they are most earnestly and...
And now, I pray you, consider from this day and upward, from before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of the LORD: Ver. 15. _And now, I pray you, consider_] Heb. Lay it upon your heart, as...
_And now, consider from this day_, &c. Reflect on what has happened to you, from the time that a stop was put to the building of the temple, after the first foundation of it was laid, till you began a...
A WARNING ADMONITION CONCERNING FALSE RIGHTEOUSNESS...
And now, I pray you, consider from this day and upward, by applying their hearts to this problem, FROM BEFORE A STONE WAS LAID UPON A STONE IN THE TEMPLE OF THE LORD, before its reconstruction was res...
10-19 Many spoiled this good work, by going about it with unholy hearts and hands, and were likely to gain no advantage by it. The sum of these two rules of the law is, that sin is more easily learne...
AND NOW; furthermore consider. I PRAY YOU: he affectionately entreats them to observe. FROM THIS DAY; this twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, HAGGAI 2:10. And upward, through past years; trace year...
Haggai 2:15 consider H7760 (H8798) H3824 day H3117 forward H4605 before H2962 stone H68 laid H7760 ...
THE RESTORATION OF CURRENT BLESSING (HAGGAI 2:10). Two months after the previous message, on the day that the foundations or building of the new Temple were finally established, Haggai brings both a w...
Haggai 2:1. _In the seventh month, in the one and twentieth day of the month, came the word of the LORD by the prophet Haggai, saying,_ God's people need to be spoken to very often; and every time Go...
CONTENTS: The various temples. Chastening because of priest's impurity and the peoples' delay. Future destruction of Gentile power. CHARACTERS: God, Haggai, Zerubbabel, Joshua. CONCLUSION: If we tak...
Haggai 2:3. _Who is left among you that saw this house in her first glory? Is it not in your eyes as nothing?_ Josephus properly ascribes this to the poverty and weak state of the jews. The simile is...
_Consider. .. from before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of the Lord._ THE HOUSE OF GOD 1. These places of worship are strongholds of the religious principle of the community. The only t...
HAGGAI—NOTE ON HAGGAI 2:10 Consider Your Ways: Holiness and Defilement; Repentance and Blessing. In this fifth message, the Lord uses an analogy of ritual holiness and uncleanness to force the priests...
HAGGAI—NOTE ON HAGGAI 2:15 The Lord calls the people to reflect upon their economic situation prior to the start of reconstruction. The past lack of agricultural prosperity did not lead to repentance....
CRITICAL NOTES.] HAGGAI 2:15. CONSIDER] Review of their condition from the present specific time to the period before resumption of work—“to connect their distress, then suffered, with their unfaithfu...
EXPOSITION HAGGAI 2:1 Part II. THE SECOND ADDRESS: THE GLORY OF THE NEW TEMPLE. Haggai 2:1—§ 1. The proph
Now in the seventh month, in the twenty-first day of the month, the word of the LORD came to the prophet Haggai, saying, Speak now to Zerubbabel, the governor of Judah, to Joshua, and to the residue o...
1 Corinthians 11:31; Ezra 3:10; Ezra 4:24; Haggai 1:5; Haggai 1:7;...
Why does this verse imply that the building of the temple began in 520 B.C.? PROBLEM: Haggai 2:15 implies that the building of the temple did not begin until 520 B.C. Ezra 3:8-13 claims that the rebui...