ASK NOW THE PRIESTS CONCERNING THE LAW - The priests answer rightly, that, by the law, insulated unholiness spread further than insulated holiness. The flesh of the sacrifice hallowed whatever it shou...
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,...
BY. by [touching]. DEAD BODY. soul. Hebrew. _nephesh_. See App-13. where see thirteen passages in which _nephesh_ is used of. "dead soul" in distinction from. "living soul", as in Genesis 2:7. Refere...
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...
_unclean by a dead body_ Lit. UNCLEAN BY A PERSON. The full phrase, "_a dead_person, or body," occurs Leviticus 21:11; Numbers 6:6; but the word "dead" is often left to be understood as here and Levit...
_SPIRITUAL UNCLEANNESS PREVENTS GOD'S BLESSING -- HAGGAI 2:10-14:_ Haggai asked the pries to interpret the Law of Moses concerning things that were unclean. "Suppose meat ready to be sacrificed to God...
DISCOURSE: 1235 INTEGRITY OF THE SOUL ENJOINED Haggai 2:11. Thus saith the Lord of Hosts; Ask now the priests concerning the law, saying, If one bear holy flesh in the skirt of his garment, and with h...
IN THE FOUR-AND-TWENTIETH DAY, &C.— Three months after they had begun to build the temple, Haggai receives orders from the Lord, to go and propose two questions to the priests, respecting the ceremoni...
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 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...
UNCLEAN BY A DEAD BODY] A corpse was regarded as making every one who came in contact with it ceremonially unclean. The priests declared that this pollution would extend to whatever these infected per...
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...
UNCLEAN. — The defilement incurred by contact with a dead body was one of the deepest. (See Numbers 19:11.) On the force of the term _tmê nephesh,_ compare the passages Leviticus 21:11; Leviticus 22:4...
וַ יֹּ֣אמֶר חַגַּ֔י אִם ־יִגַּ֧ע טְמֵא ־נֶ֛פֶ
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...
No, conformably to Leviticus vi. 27. (Menochius) --- What the linen covered could not render other things sacred. The victim must come in immediate contact with them, to have this effect. (Haydock) --...
"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...
THEN SAID HAGGAI,.... To the priests; having nothing to object to their answer; but being satisfied with it, he puts another question: IF [ONE THAT IS] UNCLEAN BY A DEAD BODY; by the touch of it, Nu...
Then said Haggai, If [one that is] unclean by a dead body touch any of these, shall it be unclean? And the priests answered and said, It shall be unclean. Ver. 13. _If one that is unclean by a dead b...
_In the four and twentieth day of the ninth month_ At which time, as appears from Haggai 2:16; Haggai 2:19, (the materials being collected,) they began to go on again with the building of the temple....
Then said Haggai, If one that is unclean by a dead body, by touching a corpse, TOUCH ANY OF THESE, SHALL IT BE UNCLEAN? AND THE PRIESTS ANSWERED AND SAID, IT SHALL BE UNCLEAN, again in perfect agreeme...
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...
Now the second case is proposed for resolution, &c. IF ONE THAT IS UNCLEAN; ceremonially or legally polluted, and unclean. BY A DEAD BODY; for such touch, though at unawares, did pollute, NUMBERS 19:1...
Haggai 2:13 Haggai H2292 said H559 (H8799) unclean H2931 body H5315 touches H5060 (H8799) unclean H2930 ...
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...
_Ask now the priests concerning the law._ HUMAN DUTY I. That the question of human duty is to be decided by an appeal to divine authority. “Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Ask now the priests concerni...
CRITICAL NOTES.] HAGGAI 2:10.] This prophecy two months later than those preceding in this chapter. HAGGAI 2:11.] To convince them of their unworthiness, they must learn from their legal advisers two...
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...
Numbers 19:11; Numbers 5:2; Numbers 5:3; Numbers 9:6...
Said — Now the second case is proposed. These — Bread or pottage, wine or oil, or meat. Unclean — Shall that which the unclean doth touch, become unclean? Though a mediate touch of what is holy will n...