Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Haggai 1:15
In the four and twentieth day of the month - The interval of twenty-three days must have been spent in preparation, since the message came on the first of the month, and the obedience was immediate.
In the four and twentieth day of the month - The interval of twenty-three days must have been spent in preparation, since the message came on the first of the month, and the obedience was immediate.
Verse Haggai 1:15. _IN THE FOUR AND TWENTIETH DAY_] Haggai received his commission on the _first_ day of this month and by the _twenty-fourth_ day he had so completely succeeded that he had the satis...
CHAPTER 1:12-15 The Second Address The spirit of God carried home the burning message of rebuke, and that happened which did not happen with the generation before the captivity. They considered their...
THE EFFECT OF HAGGAI'S ELOQUENCE. Work was actually begun at the Temple twenty-three days after the first appeal. The phrase the remnant (apparently editorial), probably has the same sense as in Jerem...
IN THE, &C. This reads on from Haggai 1:14, giving the date when Haggai's message took effect about three weeks later. It is not the commencement of another message, as some have supposed. See note on...
The note of time in this verse (which obviously belongs to this chapter, and not as in some editions both of Heb. and LXX. and in some MSS. to the next) seems designed to shew how prompt the response...
_THERE IS HOPE WHEN WE OBEY -- HAGGAI 1:12-15:_ The people decided to listen to the message delivered by God's messengers, the prophets. "Zerubbabel and Joshua, together with the others who had return...
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...
In the four and twentieth day of the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king. IN THE FOUR AND TWENTIETH DAY - 23 days after the first message of Haggai (), "in the first day of the mont...
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...
(12-15) _THE SECOND UTTERANCE_. — The people turn a willing ear to Haggai’s exhortation, and the prophet is now charged to inform them of the return of God’s favour, in the gracious utterance, “I am w...
It must be supposed that the intervening three weeks had been spent in collecting timber in the upland region, as was ordered in Haggai 1:8, and resuming the “work of the house of God.”...
בְּ יֹ֨ום עֶשְׂרִ֧ים וְ אַרְבָּעָ֛ה לַ †...
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...
THE TRUE GLORY OF GOD'S HOUSE Haggai 1:12-15; Haggai 2:1-9 One earnest man can arouse an entire community. Let a fire glow in our hearts, and it will spread. Assured of God's presence and favor, with...
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...
REFLECTIONS Who can call to remembrance the desolated state of the Church, in the ruins at the return of the people from the Babylonish captivity, but must feel concern at the sad and deplorable visit...
"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,...
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 Prophet mentions even the time when they commenced the building of the temple. Three-and-twenty days interposed between the first message and the beginning of the work. It hence appears how ignora...
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...
IN THE FOUR AND TWENTIETH DAY OF THE SIXTH MONTH,.... Or, "in the four and twentieth of the month, in the sixth"; in that sixth month before mentioned, Haggai 1:1. On this day they came and worked; no...
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...
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...
in the four and twentieth day of the sixth month, twenty-three days after the first message of Haggai, IN THE SECOND YEAR OF DARIUS, THE KING. When people are filled with the spirit of repentance and...
12-15 The people returned to God in the way of duty. In attending to God's ministers, we must have respect to him that sent them. The word of the Lord has success, when by his grace he stirs up our s...
Courier New; It appeareth then that Zerubbabel and Joshua, with the people, did resolve on the matter quickly; for in three weeks and three days they are at the work, as is evident; on the first day H...
Haggai 1:15 twenty-fourth H6242 H702 day H3117 sixth H8345 month H2320 second H8147 year H8141 King H4428 Darius...
THE LEADERS AND PEOPLE MAKE THEIR RESPONSE (HAGGAI 1:12). The result of Haggai's persistence was that the leaders and people responded to his urgings, and to the word of YHWH, and began again on the w...
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...
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...
HAGGAI—NOTE ON HAGGAI 1:13 Promise and Progress. The people’s general response of fear (v. Haggai 1:12) prompts the prophet’s third statement....
CRITICAL NOTES.] Haggai 1:12] The result of reproof. OBEY] _i.e._ To lay to heart, so as to obey what was heard. FEAR] The first-fruit of hearing; the second given Haggai 1:13] The penitence of the p...
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...
Haggai 1:1; Haggai 2:1; Haggai 2:10; Haggai 2:20...