Ask now the priests.. the law] better, 'ask of the priests a thorah,' or deliverance. In the absence of a definite statement in the written Law covering a case it was the custom to submit a question of usage to the priests (Deuteronomy 17:8). Their reply was a 'thorah' or law. The passage in the written Law most resembling the judgment here rendered is Leviticus 6:27; Leviticus 6:28.
ASK NOW THE PRIESTS CONCERNING THE LAW - The priests answer rightly, that, by the law, insulated unholiness spread further than insulated holiness. The flesh of the sacrifice hallowed whatever it shou...
CHAPTER 2:10-19 The Fourth Address A few months later Haggai delivered another address of moral instruction and admonition. The question the prophet asks first is answered by the priests negatively....
HAGGAI'S SERMON ON DEC. 24. Haggai bases his exhortation on a pronouncement of the priests concerning the infecting power of holiness and uncleanness respectively. In the question put to the priests,...
ASK NOW, &C. Reference to Pentateuch (Leviticus 10:10; Leviticus 10:11.Deuteronomy 17:11; Deuteronomy 33:10). App-
_Ask now the priests concerning the law_ Lit., ASK OF THE PRIESTS LAW, OR THE LAW. The construction is a double accusative after the verb ask. (Comp. Isaiah 45:11.) The word law may be used here and i...
The Third Prophecy By a reference to the ceremonial law, as officially interpreted by the priests in answer to questions addressed to them, Haggai again impresses upon the people the truth, that the...
_SPIRITUAL UNCLEANNESS PREVENTS GOD'S BLESSING -- HAGGAI 2:10-14:_ Haggai asked the pries to interpret the Law of Moses concerning things that were unclean. "Suppose meat ready to be sacrificed to God...
DISCOURSE: 1235 INTEGRITY OF THE SOUL ENJOINED Haggai 2:11. Thus saith the Lord of Hosts; Ask now the priests concerning the law, saying, If one bear holy flesh in the skirt of his garment, and with h...
IN THE FOUR-AND-TWENTIETH DAY, &C.— Three months after they had begun to build the temple, Haggai receives orders from the Lord, to go and propose two questions to the priests, respecting the ceremoni...
THE THIRD MESSAGE. Haggai 2:10-19 RV. In the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, came the word of Jehovah by Haggai the prophet, saying, Thus saith Jehovah of host...
In the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet, saying, Sacrifices without obedience (in respect to God's command to...
NEVER *GIVE UP! HAGGAI _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ CHAPTER 2 V1 On 17 October the *LORD spoke to Haggai the *prophet. He said, V2 ‘Speak now to: • Zerubbabel; he is leader of Judah and son of Shealtiel...
(10-19) _The Fourth Utterance. — _The recent season of scarcity is again accounted for and immediate blessings are announced. This address dates about two months later than its predecessor — viz., fro...
כֹּ֥ה אָמַ֖ר יְהוָ֣ה צְבָאֹ֑ות שְׁאַל ־נָ֧א א
3. THE POWER OF THE UNCLEAN Haggai 2:10 Haggai's third address to the people is based on a deliverance which he seeks from the priests. The Book of Deuteronomy had provided that, in all difficult cas...
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...
GOD'S JUDGMENT UPON THE NATIONS Haggai 2:10-23 Two months after the foregoing prophecy, the prophet again remonstrated with the people for still neglecting the Temple, though they appear to have main...
About seven weeks later Haggai delivered his second message. This was addressed to Zerubbabel the governor, Joshua the priest, and all the people. A comparison of Ezr 3:13 with this message will show...
"In the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet, saying, (11) Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Ask now the priests concern...
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...
THUS SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS,.... To Haggai the prophet: ASK NOW THE PRIESTS [CONCERNING] THE LAW; whose business it was to understand it, and teach it, and to answer questions, and resolve doubts co...
Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Ask now the priests [concerning] the law, saying, Ver. 11. _Ask now the priest concerning the law_] For who should know the law better than the priests? And who so fit t...
_In the four and twentieth day of the ninth month_ At which time, as appears from Haggai 2:16; Haggai 2:19, (the materials being collected,) they began to go on again with the building of the temple....
A WARNING ADMONITION CONCERNING FALSE RIGHTEOUSNESS...
Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Ask now the priests concerning the Law, saying,...
10-19 Many spoiled this good work, by going about it with unholy hearts and hands, and were likely to gain no advantage by it. The sum of these two rules of the law is, that sin is more easily learne...
THUS SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS: the prophet comes with his double parable, or problem, but not of his own head, but in the name of the Lord of hosts. ASK; consult with, desire the solution of the follow...
Haggai 2:11 says H559 (H8804) LORD H3068 hosts H6635 ask H7592 (H8798) priests H3548 law H8451 saying...
THE RESTORATION OF CURRENT BLESSING (HAGGAI 2:10). Two months after the previous message, on the day that the foundations or building of the new Temple were finally established, Haggai brings both a w...
Haggai 2:1. _In the seventh month, in the one and twentieth day of the month, came the word of the LORD by the prophet Haggai, saying,_ God's people need to be spoken to very often; and every time Go...
CONTENTS: The various temples. Chastening because of priest's impurity and the peoples' delay. Future destruction of Gentile power. CHARACTERS: God, Haggai, Zerubbabel, Joshua. CONCLUSION: If we tak...
Haggai 2:3. _Who is left among you that saw this house in her first glory? Is it not in your eyes as nothing?_ Josephus properly ascribes this to the poverty and weak state of the jews. The simile is...
_Ask now the priests concerning the law._ HUMAN DUTY I. That the question of human duty is to be decided by an appeal to divine authority. “Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Ask now the priests concerni...
HAGGAI—NOTE ON HAGGAI 2:10 Consider Your Ways: Holiness and Defilement; Repentance and Blessing. In this fifth message, the Lord uses an analogy of ritual holiness and uncleanness to force the priests...
HAGGAI—NOTE ON HAGGAI 2:11 PRIESTS. Haggai directs questions to priests because it is their duty to give a ruling in matters of Mosaic ritual and law (Leviticus 10:10).
CRITICAL NOTES.] HAGGAI 2:10.] This prophecy two months later than those preceding in this chapter. HAGGAI 2:11.] To convince them of their unworthiness, they must learn from their legal advisers two...
EXPOSITION HAGGAI 2:1 Part II. THE SECOND ADDRESS: THE GLORY OF THE NEW TEMPLE. Haggai 2:1—§ 1. The proph
Now in the seventh month, in the twenty-first day of the month, the word of the LORD came to the prophet Haggai, saying, Speak now to Zerubbabel, the governor of Judah, to Joshua, and to the residue o...
Deuteronomy 33:10; Ezekiel 44:23; Ezekiel 44:24; Leviticus 10:10;...
Concerning the law — What the law saith in this case....