Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Haggai 1:4
[Is it] time for you, O ye, to dwell in your (d) cieled houses, and this house [lie] waste?
(d) Showing that they sought not only their necessities, but their very pleasures before God's honour.
[Is it] time for you, O ye, to dwell in your (d) cieled houses, and this house [lie] waste?
(d) Showing that they sought not only their necessities, but their very pleasures before God's honour.
Verse 4. IS IT _TIME FOR YOU_] If the _time be not come_ to rebuild the _temple_, it cannot be come for you to _build yourselves_ _comfortable houses_: but ye are rebuilding your houses; why then do y...
IS IT TIME FOR YOU - You, being what you are, the creatures of God, “to dwell in your ceiled houses,” more emphatically, in your houses, and those “ceiled,” probably with costly woods, such as cedar ....
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...
YOU,. YE. Hebrew Figure of speech _Epizeuxis_ (App-6), for emphasis. you, even you, or that ye yourselves. CEILED. panelled. Used of the lining of an arched roof. Occurs in 1Ki 6:9. 1 Kings 7:3; 1 Kin...
_for you, O ye_ Lit., FOR YOU, YOU: _you, yourselves_, R. V. The repetition of the pronoun is emphatic, "you are the people I mean;" or you in implied contrast to Almighty God, comp. 1 Samuel 25:24, w...
_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...
IS IT TIME FOR YOU, &C.— _Is the time come for you to inhabit your ceiled houses, while that house lieth desolate?_ This is in answer to Haggai 1:2. "You complain of the times; yet they have not been...
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...
Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house lie waste? Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house lie waste? IS IT TIME. It is not time ()...
1:4 wainscoted (i-12) Or 'ceiled.' see Jeremiah 22:14 ....
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.)....
TIME FOR YOU, O YE] lit. 'for you, you,' the repeated pronoun being very emphatic, so as to make a sharp contrast between them and the God they dishonoured. CIELED HOUSES] houses panelled with costly...
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...
IS IT TIME FOR YOU... — Literally, _Is it time for you to dwell in your houses, and those ceiled? — i.e.,_ probably with cedar and other costly woods. A crushing retort. If the adverse decree of Artax...
הַ עֵ֤ת לָכֶם֙ אַתֶּ֔ם לָ שֶׁ֖בֶת בְּ
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...
_Ceiled: superbly adorned. Hebrew, "covered." You are not content with what is merely necessary, while the temple lies in ruins. (Calmet)_...
"Then came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet, saying, (4) Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your ceiled houses, and this house lie waste? (5) Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; C...
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...
[IS IT] TIME FOR YOU, O YE, TO DWELL IN YOUR PANELLED HOUSES,.... They could not only find time, leisure, and convenience to build houses to dwell in; but to wainscot them, and line them with boards o...
Haggai 1:4 [Is it] time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house [lie] waste? Ver. 4. _Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your ceiled houses, &c._] Not covered only, but ceile...
_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...
Is It time for you, O ye, to dwell In your celled houses, for yourselves to dwell in wainscoted houses, paneled in the most expensive manner, showing that they lived not only in comfort, but in luxury...
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...
IS IT TIME? you think it full time to build your own houses, you judge it seasonable enough to lay out much cost on adorning them, what pretence can you make that it is not seasonable to build my hous...
Haggai 1:4 time H6256 dwell H3427 (H8800) paneled H5603 (H8803) houses H1004 temple H1004 ruins H2720
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...
_Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your ceiled houses, and this house lie waste?_ CHURCH BUILDING The decree of Artaxerxes prohibited the building both of temple and city, but it seems that the p...
HAGGAI—NOTE ON HAGGAI 1:3 Consider Your Ways: Fruitless Prosperity. In this second word to Haggai, the Lord asks his people to consider whether their wealth brings satisfaction. He encourages them to...
HAGGAI—NOTE ON HAGGAI 1:4 PANELED HOUSES... RUINS. The people focus on comfortable personal dwellings (see v. Haggai 1:9) while the Lord remains “homeless” (compare...
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...
2 Samuel 7:2; Daniel 9:17; Daniel 9:18; Daniel 9:26; Daniel 9:27;...
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...
Ceiled — Arched and richly adorned....