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Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Haggai 1:2

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 what grounds the people based this assumption; but probably they palliated their indifference to religion by a pretended dread of Persian hostility. Darius, however, unlike his predecessor Artaxerxes, gave the enemies of the Jews no countenance when a report was actually made to him on the subject. (See Ezra 5:6)

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See also Haggai 1:2 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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)...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    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"....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _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....

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _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...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    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...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    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...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    A CALL TO BEGIN BUILDING THE TEMPLE 1-11. Haggai repeatedly urges the leaders of Judah and the people to bend their energies to the rebuilding of the ruined Temple (August, 520 b.c.)....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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 sin...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    כֹּ֥ה אָמַ֛ר יְהוָ֥ה צְבָאֹ֖ות לֵ אמֹ֑ר הָ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    "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...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    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...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    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...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    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...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Haggai 1:2 speaks H559 (H8804) LORD H3068 hosts H6635 saying H559 (H8800) people H5971 says H559 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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. ⇐...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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)....

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION HAGGAI 1:1 Part I. THE FIRST ADDRESS: EXHORTATION TO BUILD THE TEMPLE AND ITS RESULT....

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Ecclesiastes 11:4; Ecclesiastes 9:10; Ezra 4:23; Ezra 4:24; Ezra 5:1;...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    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...

  • When Critics Ask: A Popular Handbook on Bible Difficulties, Norman L. Geisler and Thomas Howe, 1960

    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...

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