Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Haggai 2:18
From the day — When you began to build on the old foundation.
From the day — When you began to build on the old foundation.
Verse Haggai 2:18. _CONSIDER NOW FROM THIS DAY_] I will now change my conduct towards you: _from, this day_ that ye have begun heartily to rebuild my temple, and restore my worship, _I will bless you_...
FROM THE DAY THAT THE FOUNDATION OF THE LORD’S HOUSE - Zechariah, in a passage corresponding to this, uses the same words Zechariah 8:9, “the day that the foundation of the house of the Lord of hosts...
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... CONSIDER. Figure of speech _Anadiplosis._ App-6. FROM THIS DAY: i.e. from the day the foundation of the Temple was laid. From this time, subsequently, things would be different, and Jehov...
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...
_from this day and upward_ The Jews are again exhorted to fix their attention upon the period of time mentioned in ver. 15. It is first described as, _from this day and upward, or backward_. Then each...
_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...
UPWARD— _Forward._...
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...
2:18 Consider (b-1) Lit. 'set your heart.'...
AND UPWARD] better, 'onwards.' THE DAY THAT THE FOUNDATION OF THE LORD'S TEMPLE WAS LAID] Probably the day on which he was speaking. Haggai refers to their bitter experience up to the day of active w...
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...
EVEN FROM THE DAY. — Better, _even to the day._ The rendering of the Authorised Version makes the passage quite unintelligible, for in no sense can the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month coincide wi...
(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...
שִׂימוּ ־נָ֣א לְבַבְכֶ֔ם מִן ־הַ יֹּ֥ום הַ
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...
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...
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...
Consider now from (k) this day and upward, from the four and twentieth day of the ninth [month, even] from the day that the foundation of the LORD'S temple was laid, consider [it]. (k) From the time...
"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...
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...
CONSIDER NOW FROM THIS DAY AND UPWARD,.... Or forward; for time to come, as the Vulgate Latin version: FROM THE FOUR AND TWENTIETH DAY OF THE NINTH [MONTH]; before observed, Haggai 2:10: EVEN FROM T...
Consider now from this day and upward, from the four and twentieth day of the ninth [month, even] from the day that the foundation of the LORD'S temple was laid, consider [it]. Ver. 18. _Consider now...
_Consider now, from this day and upward_ That is, _forward._ In the 15th verse the prophet exhorted them to reflect upon the calamities they had suffered, from the time the rebuilding of the temple wa...
Consider now from this day and upward, applying their hearts to the consideration of that which pertained to their best interests, FROM THE FOUR AND TWENTIETH DAY OF THE NINTH MONTH, EVEN FROM THE DAY...
A WARNING ADMONITION CONCERNING FALSE RIGHTEOUSNESS...
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...
See HAGGAI 2:15. Make you observation from the day when you began to build on the old foundation laid many years ago in the time of Cyrus. CONSIDER IT; let that be the precise day from which you begin...
Haggai 2:18 Consider H7760 (H8798) H3824 day H3117 forward H4605 twenty-fourth H6242 H702 day H3117 ninth...
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...
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...
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...
Deuteronomy 32:29; Ezra 5:1; Ezra 5:2; Haggai 1:14; Haggai 1:15;...