The Lord's messenger] This v. is rejected by many scholars as superfluous. They also question this title as needless. It is the only instance in Scripture where a prophet uses such a title concerning himself. Nevertheless, it is not incongruous. I am with you] This encouraging word assured the people that they were acting as God would have them do.
Verse Haggai 1:13. _THEN SPAKE HAGGAI_] He was the _Lord's messenger_, and he came with the _Lord's message_, and consequently he came with _authority_. He is called מלאך יהוה _malach Yehovah, the an...
AND HAGGAI, THE LORD’S MESSENGER - Malachi, whose own name was framed to express that he was “the Lord’s messenger,” and Haggai alone use the title, as the title of a prophet; perhaps as forerunners o...
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...
THE LORD'SMESSENGER, &C.. the messenger of Jehovah in the message of Jehovah. MESSAGE. Hebrew word Occurs only here....
_messenger_ The word is that commonly used for an _angel_in the O.T., but its first and proper meaning is messenger. In the same way in the N.T., the same word (ἄγγελος) is used generally in its restr...
_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...
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 las...
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...
Then spake Haggai the LORD's messenger in the LORD's message unto the people, saying, I am with you, saith the LORD. THEN SPAKE HAGGAI THE LORD'S MESSENGER - so the priests () are called (cf. ; )....
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...
IN THE LORD’S MESSAGE. — Or, _on the Lord_’_s mission. _...
וַ֠ יֹּאמֶר חַגַּ֞י מַלְאַ֧ךְ יְהוָ֛ה בְּ מַל
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...
Messenger. To excite the people's attention, Aggeus declares that he is sent by God, (Worthington) like the prophets of old. Some Jews have asserted (Calmet) that he, Malachias, [John] the Baptist, an...
"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 tells us here, that he had again roused the leaders as well as the common people; for except God frequently repeats his exhortations, our alacrity relaxes. Though then they had all attende...
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 SPOKE HAGGAI THE LORD'S MESSENGER,.... Which some render "angel"; hence sprung that notion, imbibed by some, that he was not a man, but an angel; whereas this only respects his office, being sent...
Then spake Haggai the LORD'S messenger in the LORD'S message unto the people, saying, I [am] with you, saith the LORD. Ver. 13. Then spake Haggai the Lord's messenger] Or angel. _See Trapp on "_ Mal...
_Then Zerubbabel, &c., obeyed the voice of the Lord_ Compare Ezra 5:1; where see the notes. _Then spake Haggai the Lord's messenger_ Or prophet; _in the Lord's message_ That is, who spake what follows...
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...
Then, when the people showed such obvious signs of repentance, SPAKE HAGGAI, THE LORD'S MESSENGER, IN THE LORD'S MESSAGE UNTO THE PEOPLE, the fact that his mission was that of Jehovah being brought ou...
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...
THEN; when the people showed their obedience, and the willingness of their minds, then God encourageth them by his prophet. MESSENGER; legate or envoy, the Hebrew word signifieth also an angel; but th...
Haggai 1:13 Haggai H2292 LORDS H3068 messenger H4397 spoke H559 (H8799) LORDS H3068 message H4400 people H5971 saying...
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...
The subject is the building of the second temple. The people had been busily employed in building their own houses some of them had gone to great expense and much labour upon these houses, but they ha...
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...
_Then spake Haggai, the Lord’s messenger, in the Lord’s message unto the people._ THE MESSAGE OF JEHOVAH This means in his official capacity as a messenger or ambassador of Jehovah, with the authorit...
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...
2 Chronicles 15:2; 2 Chronicles 20:17; 2 Chronicles 32:8; 2 Corinthians 5:20;...
In the Lord's message — ln the words of his master. The people — The whole assembly....