This people] Haggai, like other prophets, did not need to create a sense of wrongdoing, but only to awaken conscience. He challenged their idle excuses. The time is not come] Evidently this was no sincere desire to await some specified date, but a wilful delaying of duty. In the interests of religion it demanded attention.
Verse Haggai 1:2. _THE TIME IS NOT COME_] They thought that the _seventy_ _years_ spoken of by Jeremiah were not yet completed, and it would be useless to attempt to rebuild until that period had arri...
THUS SPEAKETH THE LORD OF HOSTS, SAYING, THIS PEOPLE SAY - Not Zerubbabel or Joshua, but “this people.” He says not, “My people,” but reproachfully “this people,” as, in acts, disowning Him, and so de...
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS CHAPTER 1:1-11 Haggai's First Address _ 1. The introduction (Habakkuk 1:1) _ 2. The reproof (Habakkuk 1:2) 3. Consider your ways (Habakkuk 1:7)...
HAGGAI 1:2. Read _mg._ Haggai 1:3. is a superfluous editorial addition. HAGGAI 1:4. A cieled house was one lined with timber, ordinary houses being left as rough inside as outside. This house means...
THE LORD OF HOSTS. See note on 1 Samuel 1:3. THIS PEOPLE. Not Zerubbabel or Joshua. TIME. Repeated here and in Haggai 1:4 for emphasis. NOT. Septuagint reads "not yet"....
_speaketh_ Lit. SAITH, the same word as throughout the verse. _this people_ possibly used as a term of reproach: comp. ch. Haggai 2:14; Isaiah 8:11-12. _the time is not come_ Lit., NOT TIME TO COME....
_GREED HAS AWFUL EFFECTS -- HAGGAI 1:1-6:_ If we are greedy for things it takes us away from God. Greed also leads to pride. Greed caused the people to push God down to a place of lesser importance in...
DISCOURSE: 1233 CONSIDERATION OF OUR WAYS ENFORCED Haggai 1:2; Haggai 1:12. Thus speaketh the Lord of Hosts, saying, This people say, The time is not come, the time that the Lord’s house should be bui...
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 i...
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...
Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, This people say, The time is not come, the time that the LORD's house should be built. THUS SPEAKETH THE LORD OF HOSTS - Yahweh, Lord of the powers of heav...
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...
THE TIME IS NOT COME. — Better (unless we alter the received text), _It is not yet time to come_ — _i.e.,_ it is not yet time to assemble and commence preparations for building. It is not stated on wh...
כֹּ֥ה אָמַ֛ר יְהוָ֥ה צְבָאֹ֖ות לֵ אמֹ֑ר הָ
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...
SELFISH AND SHORTSIGHTED THRIFT Haggai 1:1-11 Zerubbabel is the Sheshbazzar of Ezra 1:8. He was of the royal line, and appointed governor by Cyrus. Josedech was son of Seraiah, high priest when Jeru...
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...
Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, This people say, The time is not come, the time (c) that the LORD'S house should be built. (c) Not that they condemned the building of it, but they preferred...
Yet come. God's service must be restored without delay, and manners reformed; as otherwise many will be lost eternally. (Worthington) --- The Jews refrained from commencing the temple till the time ma...
"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 Judah, and...
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...
They who think that seventy years had not passed until the reign of Darius, may from this passage be easily disproved: for if the seventy years were not accomplished, an excuse would have been ready a...
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...
THUS SPEAKETH THE LORD OF HOSTS,.... Of armies above and below; whom all ought to reverence, honour, and obey; who was able to support his people in building his house, and protect them from their ene...
Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, This people say, The time is not come, the time that the LORD'S house should be built. Ver. 2. _Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts, saying_] This title is oft us...
_This people say, The time is not come_, &c. They had no just cause for saying this; but their own private concerns and conveniences (as appears from what follows) employed all their thoughts, and the...
Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts, the prophet employing this formula in order to bring out the importance of his message, SAYING, THIS PEOPLE SAY, THE TIME IS NOT COME, THE TIME THAT THE LORD'S HOUSE S...
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...
1-11 Observe the sin of the Jews, after their return from captivity in Babylon. Those employed for God may be driven from their work by a storm, yet they must go back to it. They did not say that the...
THUS SPEAKETH, by way of reproof, and to awaken the drowsy Jews; he who knew their heart tells them what they both thought and spoke. THIS PEOPLE, whom mercy preserved in, redeemed out of Babylon, and...
Haggai 1:2 speaks H559 (H8804) LORD H3068 hosts H6635 saying H559 (H8800) people H5971 says H559 ...
YHWH'S GRIEVANCE WITH HIS PEOPLE (HAGGAI 1:2). In a series of consecutive prophecies YHWH's grievance with His people is established, and the call comes to build the Temple. For YHWH knows that until...
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...
_Came the Word of the Lord by Haggai._ DUTY REVEALED The grail subject of the whole chapter is duty. Duty revealed, duty postponed, duty vindicated These two verses direct us to the revelation of du...
HAGGAI 1:1 Introduction: Reluctant Rebuilders. The major problem that the book addresses is that the temple is in ruins and the people are doing nothing about it. ⇐...
HAGGAI—NOTE ON HAGGAI 1:2 LORD OF HOSTS emphasizes the Lord’s universal rule as leader of heavenly or earthly armies (see note on 1 Sam. 1:3)....
CRITICAL NOTES.] BY] Lit. in the hand of Haggai, the prophet, merely a conscious medium; God the real speaker (cf. Acts 7:35; Galatians 3:19). GOVERNOR] _Pechah_, akin to the Turkish _Pasha_, one who...
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...
Ecclesiastes 11:4; Ecclesiastes 9:10; Ezra 4:23; Ezra 4:24; Ezra 5:1;...
A BIRD'S-EYE VIEW OF HAGGAI _ Haggai_ INTRODUCTORY WORDS The book of Haggi opens with the building of the Lord's house. In this the Lord's people had lagged behind. The second chapter is a great pr...
How could foreign influence have caused the work to cease when Haggai 1:2 blames it on the indifference of the leaders? PROBLEM: Ezra 4:7-23 records that after the great beginning made by the people i...