+ Heb. Set your heart on your ways.

g Lam. 3. 40. ver. 7.

CHAPTER I.

The prophet reproveth the people for neglecting to

build the Lord's house. 1 He exhorteth them to build, 12 and promiseth them God's assistance.

IN

N 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 to Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, saying,

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2 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.

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3 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; † Consider your ways. 6 Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not

remnant of the people, obeyed the voice of the LORD their God, and the words of Haggai the prophet, as the LORD their God had sent him, and the people did fear before the LORD. 13 Then spake Haggai the LORD'S messenger in the LORD's message unto the people, saying, I am with you, saith the LORD.

14 And the LORD stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirits of Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they t Ezra 5. 2, 8. came and did work in the house of the LORD of hosts, their God,

15 In the four and twentieth day of the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king.

CHAPTER II.

The glory of the latter house to be greater than that of the former. 10 The work hindered by the sins of the people. 20 God's promise to Zerubbabel.

month, in the one

Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.

8 Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the house; and I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, saith the LORD.

9 Ye looked for much, and, lo, it came to little; and when ye brought it home, 'I did blow upon it. Why? saith the LORD of hosts. Because of mine house that is waste, and ye run every man unto his own house. 10 Therefore the heaven over you Deut. 28. 23. is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed from her fruit.

3 Who is left among you that saw this house in her first glory? and how do ye see it now? is it not in b Zech. 4. 10. your eyes in comparison of it as nothing?

4 Yet now be strong, O Zerubba- Zech. 8. 9. bel, saith the LORD; and be strong, O Joshua, son of Josedech, the high priest; and be strong, all ye people of the land, saith the LORD, and work: for I am with you, saith the LORD of hosts:

The work is hindered.

B. C. about 520.

i John 1. 14.

9 The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former, saith the LORD of hosts: and in this P. 35. 8, 9. place will I give peace, saith the LORD of hosts.

Luke 2. 14. Eph. 2. 14.

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10 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 concerning the 11. Deut. 33. law, saying,

1 Lev. 10, 10,

10. Mal. 2. 7.

12 If one bear holy flesh in the skirt of his garment, and with his skirt do touch bread, or pottage, or wine, or oil, or any meat, shall it be holy? And the priests answered and said, No.

The promise of God.

came to a heap of twenty measures, there were but ten: when one came to the pressfat for to draw out fifty vessels out of the press, there were but twenty.

B. C. about 520.

1 Kings 8.37. Am. 4. 9. ch. 1. 9.

17 I smote you with blasting and 9 Deut. 23. 22. with mildew and with hail in all the labours of your hands; yet ye turned not to me, saith the LORD.

18 Consider now from this day and upward, from the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, even from the day that the foundation of the LORD's temple was laid, consider it. 19 "Is the seed yet in the barn? yea, as yet the vine, and the fig tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive tree, hath not brought forth from this day will I bless you.

r ch. 1. 11. • Jer, 5, 3. Am. 4. 6, 8, 9, 10, 11.

t Zech. 8. 9.

u Zech. 8. 12.

20 T And again the word of the LORD came unto Haggai in the four and twentieth day of the month, saying, 21 Speak to Zerubbabel, governor ch. 1. 14. of Judah, saying, I will shake the heavens and the earth;

22 And I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms, and I will destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the heathen; and I will overthrow the chariots, and those that ride in them; and the horses and their riders shall come down, every one by the sword of his brother.

35. 15. Mic.

7. 19. Mal. 3. 7. Luke 15. 20, James 4. 8.

d 2 Chr. 36. 15, 16.

e Is. 31. 6.

Jer. 3. 12.
& 18. 11.
Ez. 18. 30.
Hos. 14. 1.

f Is. 55. 1.

4 Be ye not as your fathers, unto whom the former prophets have cried, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; eTurn ye now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings: but they did not hear, nor hearken unto me, saith the LORD.

5 Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?

6 But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the Or, overtake. prophets, did they not take hold of your fathers? and they returned and said, Like as the LORD of hosts thought to do unto us, according to our ways, and according to our doings, so hath he dealt with us.

g Lam. 1. 18. & 2. 17.

about 519.

h Josh. 5. 13. Rev. 6. 4.

i ch. 6. 2-7. Or, bay.

k Heb. 1. 14.

7 Upon the four and twentieth day of the eleventh month, which is the month Sebat, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the LORD unto Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying,

8 I saw by night, and behold ha man riding upon a red horse, and he stood among the myrtle trees that were in the bottom; and behind him were there red horses, speckled, and white.

9 Then said I, O my lord, what are these? And the angel that talked with me said unto me, I will shew thee what these be.

10 And the man that stood among the myrtle trees answered and said, *These are they whom the LORD hath

sent to walk to and fro through the earth.

11 'And they answered the angel of the LORD that stood among the myrtle trees, and said, We have walked to and fro through the earth, and, behold, all the earth sitteth still, and is at rest.

B. C. about 519.

1 Ps. 103. 20, 21.

12 Then the angel of the LORD answered and said, O LORD of hosts, Ps. 102. 13. Rev. 6. 10. how long wilt thou not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which thou hast had indignation these threescore and ten years?

n Jer. 25. 11. 12. Dan. 9. 2 ch. 7. 5.

13 And the LORD answered the angel that talked with me with good Jer. 29. 10 words and comfortable words.

14 So the angel that communed with me said unto me, Cry thou, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion P Joel 2, 18. with a great jealousy.

ch. 8. 2.

15 And I am very sore displeased with the heathen that are at ease: for I was but a little displeased, and I. 47. 6. they helped forward the affliction.

54. 8. ch 2

10. & S. 3.

16 Therefore thus saith the LORD; I am returned to Jerusalem with r 1 12 1.& mercies: my house shall be built in it, saith the LORD of hosts, and a line shall be stretched forth upon ch. 2. 1,2 Jerusalem.

17 Cry yet, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; My cities through prosperity shall yet be spread abroad; and the LORD shall yet comfort Zion, and "shall yet choose Jerusalem. 18 Then lifted I up mine eyes, and saw, and behold four horns.

Zerubbabel encouraged.

B. C. 519.

[ Hos. 1. 7. Or, army.

g Jer. 51. 25. Matt. 21. 21. h Ps. 118. 22. i Ezra 3. 11, 13.

k Ezra 3. 10.

1 Ezra 6. 15.
m ch. 2. 9, 11.
& 6. 15.
n Is. 48. 16.
ch. 2. 8.

Or, since the seven eyes of

the LORD shall rejoice. + Heb. stone of tin.

o Hag. 2. 3. P2 Chr. 16. 9.

Prov. 15. 3.

ch. 3. 9.

q ver. 3.

5 Then the angel that talked with me answered and said unto me, Knowest thou not what these be? And I said, No, my lord.

The vision of the ephah.

B. C. 519.

by my name and it shall remain in the midst of his house, and shall consume it with the timber thereof See Lev. 14. and the stones thereof.

5 ¶ Then the angel that talked with me went forth, and said unto me, Lift up now thine eyes, and see what is this that goeth forth.

And he

6 And I said, What is it? said, This is an ephah that goeth forth. He said moreover, This is their resemblance through all the

7 And, behold, there was lifted up

10 For who hath despised the day of small things? for they shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel with those seven; they are the eyes of the LORD, which run to and fro through the whole earth.

11 ¶ Then answered I, and said unto him, What are these two olive trees upon the right side of the candlestick and upon the left side thereof?

12 And I answered again, and said unto him, What be these two olive + Heb. by the branches, which through the two golden pipes empty † the golden oil out of themselves?

hand.

Or, empty out of themselves oil into the gold.

+ Heb. the gold.

r Rev. 11. 4.

13 And he answered me and said, Knowest thou not what these be? And I said, No, my lord.

8 And he said, This is wickedness. And he cast it into the midst of the ephah; and he cast the weight of lead upon the mouth thereof.

9 Then lifted I up mine eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came out two women, and the wind was in their wings; for they had wings like the wings of a stork: and they lifted up the ephah between the earth and the heaven.

10 Then said I to the angel that talked with me, Whither do these bear the ephah?

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