Haggai 1 - Introduction
_HAGGAI REPROVETH THE PEOPLE FOR NEGLECTING THE BUILDING OF THE LORD'S HOUSE: HE INCITETH THEM TO THE BUILDING: HE PROMISETH GOD'S ASSISTANCE TO THEM IN THE WORK._ _Before Christ 520._... [ Continue Reading ]
_HAGGAI REPROVETH THE PEOPLE FOR NEGLECTING THE BUILDING OF THE LORD'S HOUSE: HE INCITETH THEM TO THE BUILDING: HE PROMISETH GOD'S ASSISTANCE TO THEM IN THE WORK._ _Before Christ 520._... [ Continue Reading ]
ZERUBBABEL THE SON OF SHEALTIEL— Zerubbabel was of the family of David, the grandson of Jechoniah, and the son of Shealtiel, as he is said to be here, and in Matthew 1:12 or the son of Pedaiah, and the grandson of Shealtiel, as it seems we ought to infer from 1 Chronicles 3:18 or, most probably, the... [ Continue Reading ]
THIS PEOPLE SAY, THE TIME IS NOT COME— The Jews said this, not because they denied that the seventy years were completed, after which the prophets had foretold that the temple should be rebuilt,—for it was extremely easy to compute those years; but, because they feared the king of Persia, and were g... [ Continue Reading ]
IS IT TIME FOR YOU, &C.— _Is the time come for you to inhabit your ceiled houses, while that house lieth desolate?_ This is in answer to Haggai 1:2. "You complain of the times; yet they have not been so difficult but you have found means and opportunity to build fine houses for yourselves, though yo... [ Continue Reading ]
YE HAVE SOWN MUCH, AND BRING IN LITTLE— "Consider both your ingratitude in neglecting to restore my house and worship; and what you have acquired by your dealings: while devoid of my blessing and protection, none of your undertakings thrive; nor do you enjoy the fruits of your labour: the reason of... [ Continue Reading ]
I DID BLOW UPON IT— _I blasted it._... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN SPAKE HAGGAI— _Then Haggai, whom the Lord had sent for the work of the Lord, spoke to the people, saying,_ &c. _The work of the Lord,_ means the work of the house of the Lord mentioned in the last clause of the next verse; which should be rendered, _And applied themselves to the work of the hou... [ Continue Reading ]