Haggai 1
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Haggai speaks sharp words to the Jews for neglecting the temple
Verse 1
WEB In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, the Word of Yahweh came by Haggai, the prophet, to Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, saying,
KJV 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 to Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, saying,
TSK second: hag 2:1,10,20, ezr 4:24, ezr 5:1,2, zec 1:1; by Haggai: ex 4:13, 1ki 14:18, 2ki 14:25, ezr 6:14; unto: hag 1:12,14, hag 2:2,4,21-23, 1ch 3:17,19; Salathiel: ezr 2:2, ezr 3:2,8, ezr 4:2, ezr 5:2, ne 7:7, zec 4:6-10, mt 1:12,13; Zorobabel, Salathiel: lu 3:27; governor: ezr 1:8, ezr 2:63, ne 5:14, ne 8:9; Joshua: ezr 2:2, ezr 3:8, ezr 5:2, ne 12:1,10; Josedech: 1ch 6:14,15
Verse 2
WEB “This is what Yahweh of Armies says: These people say, ‘The time hasn’t yet come, the time for Yahweh’s house to be built.’”
KJV 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.
TSK This: nu 13:31, ezr 4:23,24, ezr 5:1,2, ne 4:10, pr 22:13, pr 26:13-16, pr 29:25, ec 9:10, ec 11:4, so 5:2,3
Verse 4
WEB “Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while this house lies waste?
KJV Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your ceiled houses, and this house lie waste?
TSK to: 2sa 7:2, ps 132:3-5, mt 6:33, php 2:21; and: ps 74:7, ps 102:14, jer 26:6,18, jer 52:13, la 2:7, la 4:1, eze 24:21, da 9:17,18,26,27, mic 3:12, mt 24:1,2
Verse 5
WEB Now therefore this is what Yahweh of Armies says: Consider your ways.
KJV Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.
TSK thus: hag 1:7, hag 2:15-18, la 3:40, eze 18:28, lu 15:17, 2co 13:5, ga 6:4; Consider your ways: ex 7:23, ex 9:21, ps 48:13, eze 40:4, da 6:14, da 10:12
Verse 6
WEB You have sown much, and bring in little. You eat, but you don’t have enough. You drink, but you aren’t filled with drink. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm, and he who earns wages earns wages to put them into a bag with holes in it.”
KJV Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes.
TSK have: hag 1:9, hag 2:16, le 26:20, de 28:38-40, 2sa 21:1, ps 107:34, isa 5:10, jer 14:4, ho 4:10, ho 8:7, joe 1:10-13, am 4:6-9, mic 6:14,15, zec 8:10, mal 2:2, mal 3:9-11; eat: le 26:26, 1ki 17:12, job 20:22, jer 44:18, eze 4:16,17; with holes: job 20:28, zec 5:4
Verse 7
WEB This is what Yahweh of Armies says: “Consider your ways.
KJV Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.
TSK See on ver: hag 1:5, ps 119:59,60, isa 28:10, php 3:1
Verse 8
WEB Go up to the mountain, bring wood, and build the house. I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified,” says Yahweh.
KJV 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.
TSK to: 2ch 2:8-10, ezr 3:7, ezr 6:4, zec 11:1,2; and build: hag 1:2-4, jon 3:1,2, mt 3:8,9; and I will take: 1ki 9:3, 2ch 7:16, ps 87:2,3, ps 132:13,14; I will be: hag 2:7, ex 29:43, isa 60:7,13, isa 66:11, joh 13:31,32
Verse 9
WEB “You looked for much, and, behold, it came to little; and when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why?” says Yahweh of Armies, “Because of my house that lies waste, while each of you is busy with his own house.
KJV 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.
TSK Ye looked: hag 1:6, hag 2:16,17, isa 17:10,11, mal 3:8-11; blow upon it: 2sa 22:16, 2ki 19:7, isa 40:7, mal 2:2; Why: job 10:2, ps 77:5-10; Because: hag 1:4, jos 7:10-15, 2sa 21:1, mt 10:37,38, 1co 11:30-32, re 2:4, re 3:19
Verse 10
WEB Therefore for your sake the heavens withhold the dew, and the earth withholds its fruit.
KJV Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed from her fruit.
TSK Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed from her fruit.: le 26:19, de 28:23,24, 1ki 8:35, 1ki 17:1, jer 14:1-6, ho 2:9, joe 1:18-20
Verse 11
WEB I called for a drought on the land, on the mountains, on the grain, on the new wine, on the oil, on that which the ground brings forth, on men, on livestock, and on all the labor of the hands.”
KJV And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the corn, and upon the new wine, and upon the oil, and upon that which the ground bringeth forth, and upon men, and upon cattle, and upon all the labour of the hands.
TSK I called: de 28:22, 1ki 17:1, 2ki 8:1, job 34:29, la 1:21, am 5:8, am 7:4, am 9:6; upon all: hag 2:17
He promises God's assistance to them
Verse 12
WEB Then Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed the voice of Yahweh, their God, and the words of Haggai, the prophet, as Yahweh, their God, had sent him; and the people feared Yahweh.
KJV Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, with all the 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.
TSK Zerubbabel: hag 1:14, ezr 5:2, isa 55:10,11, col 1:6, 1th 1:5,6, 1th 2:13,14; fear: ge 22:12, ps 112:1, pr 1:7, ec 12:13, isa 50:10, ac 9:31, heb 12:28
Verse 13
WEB Then Haggai, Yahweh’s messenger, spoke Yahweh’s message to the people, saying, “I am with you,” says Yahweh.
KJV Then spake Haggai the LORD'S messenger in the LORD'S message unto the people, saying, I am with you, saith the LORD.
TSK the Lord's: jud 2:1, isa 42:19, isa 44:26, eze 3:17, mal 2:7, mal 3:1, 2co 5:20; I am: hag 2:4, 2ch 15:2, 2ch 20:17, 2ch 32:8, ps 46:7,11, isa 8:8-10, isa 41:10, isa 43:2, jer 15:20, jer 20:11, jer 30:11, mt 1:23, mt 18:20, mt 28:20, ac 18:9,10, ro 8:31, 2ti 4:17,22
Verse 14
WEB Yahweh stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they came and worked on the house of Yahweh of Armies, their God,
KJV And the LORD stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they came and did work in the house of the LORD of hosts, their God,
TSK stirred: 1ch 5:26, 2ch 36:22, ezr 1:1,5, ezr 7:27,28, ps 110:3, 1co 12:4-11, 2co 8:16, heb 13:21; governor of: hag 1:1, hag 2:21; and they: ezr 5:2,8, ne 4:6, 1co 15:58, php 2:12,13
Verse 15
WEB in the twenty-fourth day of the month, in the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king.
KJV In the four and twentieth day of the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king.
TSK In the four and twentieth day of the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king.: hag 1:1, hag 2:1,10,20