Stirred up the spirit] The first result of Haggai's unsparing sermon was a spiritual change in the hearts of his hearers. A zealous purpose was once more kindled. The second result was practical. Within three weeks from the date of his first appeal the work upon the Temple had begun, with unanimity and heartiness. What more searching test could a preacher have or what more convincing proof of his power?
Verse Haggai 1:14. _AND THE LORD STIRRED UP THE SPIRIT_] It is not only necessary that the _judgment_ should be enlightened, but the _soul_ must be _invigorated_ by the Spirit of God, before any good...
AND THE LORD STIRRED UP THE SPIRIT - The words are used of any strong impulse from God to fulfill His will, whether in those who execute His will unknowingly as Pul 1 Chronicles 5:26, to carry off the...
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...
SPIRIT. Hebrew. _ruach._ App-9. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Adjunct), App-6, for the state of mind and feeling, &c. Compare 1 Chronicles 5:26. 2Ch 21:16. 2 Chronicles 36:22 (= Ezra 1:1)....
_the Lord stirred up_, &c. It would seem that the prevailing indifference and neglect by which they were surrounded had, in some measure at least, damped the ardour and quenched the spirit even of Zer...
_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...
And the LORD stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the peopl...
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...
וַ יָּ֣עַר יְהוָ֡ה אֶת ־רוּחַ֩ זְרֻבָּבֶ֨ל בּ
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...
And the LORD stirred up (l) the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the pe...
_Work. Septuagint, "works." (Haydock) --- They prepared materials, and began the temple on the 24th of the ninth month, chap. ii. 16, 19. (Menochius)_...
"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 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...
AND THE LORD STIRRED UP THE SPIRIT OF ZERUBBABEL THE SON OF SHEALTIEL, GOVERNOR OF JUDAH, AND THE SPIRIT OF JOSHUA THE SON OF JOSEDECH, THE HIGH PRIEST, AND THE SPIRIT OF ALL THE REMNANT OF THE PEOPLE...
And the LORD stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people...
And the Lord stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua, the son of Josedech, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the peop...
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...
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...
THE LORD STIRRED UP: this is the first notable effect of God's presence with them, a sensible performance of his promise. God inclined their minds, fixed their resolutions, and inspired them with cour...
Haggai 1:14 LORD H3068 up H5782 (H8686) spirit H7307 Zerubbabel H2216 son H1121 Shealtiel H7597 governor H6346 Judah...
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...
REMNANT (_ See Scofield) - (Jeremiah 15:21). _...
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...
_And the Lord stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel._ STIRRING UP THE SPIRIT It is not right to restrict the influence of the Spirit to one thing only, as some do, who imagine that the Israelites were...
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....
HAGGAI—NOTE ON HAGGAI 1:14 THE LORD STIRRED UP THE SPIRIT. Progress on the house is made only as God awakens in the people an intense desire to work at building it (compare...
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...
1 Chronicles 5:26; 1 Corinthians 12:4; 1 Corinthians 15:58; 2 Chronicles 36:22;...
The Lord of hosts — By which name he delights to be known among the returned captives; and it was a name best suited to their present state, compassed on all hands with enemies....