Haggai 1:5-6

The Command to Rebuild the Temple

5 Now, therefore, thus says the Lord of hosts: i Consider your ways. 6 j You have sown much, and harvested little. k You eat, but you never have enough; you drink, but you never have your fill. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm. And he who l earns wages does so to put them into a bag with holes.

  1. Cross References
    Haggai 2:15
    Now then, consider from this day onward. Before stone was placed upon stone in the temple of the Lord.
    Haggai 2:18
    Consider from this day onward, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month. Since the day that the foundation of the Lord 's temple was laid, consider:
  2. Cross References
    Micah 6:15
    You shall sow, but not reap; you shall tread olives, but not anoint yourselves with oil; you shall tread grapes, but not drink wine.
  3. Cross References
    Hosea 4:10
    They shall eat, but not be satisfied; they shall play the whore, but not multiply, because they have forsaken the Lord to cherish
  4. Cross References
    Zechariah 8:10
    For before those days there was no wage for man or any wage for beast, neither was there any safety from the foe for him who went out or came in, for I set every man against his neighbor.
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