The Command to Rebuild the Temple

Haggai 1

1 a In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came by the hand of Haggai the prophet to b Zerubbabel the son of c Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to d Joshua the son of e Jehozadak, the high priest:

2 "Thus says the Lord of hosts: These people say the time has not yet come to rebuild the house of the Lord." 3 Then the word of the Lord came f by the hand of Haggai the prophet, 4 g "Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while h this house lies in ruins? 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.

7 "Thus says the Lord of hosts: i Consider your ways. 8 Go up to the hills and bring wood and build the house, that m I may take pleasure in it and that n I may be glorified, says the Lord. 9 j You looked for much, and behold, it came to little. And when you brought it home, o I blew it away. Why? declares the Lord of hosts. Because of my house h that lies in ruins, while each of you busies himself with his own house. 10 Therefore p the heavens above you have withheld the dew, and the earth has withheld its produce. 11 And q I have called for a drought on the land and the hills, on r the grain, the new wine, the oil, on what the ground brings forth, on man and beast, and s on all their labors."

  1. Cross References
    Haggai 1:15
    On the twenty-fourth day of the month, in the s...
    Haggai 2:10
    On the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, in...
    Ezra 4:24
    Then the work on the house of God that is in Je...
    Ezra 5:1
    Now the prophets, Haggai and Zechariah the son ...
    Zechariah 1:1
    In the eighth month, in the second year of Dari...
    Zechariah 1:7
    On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month,...
  2. Cross References
    1 Chronicles 3:19
    And the sons of Pedaiah: Zerubbabel and Shimei; and the sons of Zerubbabel: Meshullam and Hananiah, and Shelomith was their sister.
  3. Cross References
    1 Chronicles 3:17
    And the sons of Jeconiah, the captive: Shealtiel his son.
  4. Cross References
    Ezra 3:2
    Then arose Jeshua the son of Jozadak, with his fellow priests, and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel with his kinsmen, and they built the altar of the God of Israel, to offer burnt offerings on it, as it is written in the Law of Moses the man of God.
  5. Cross References
    1 Chronicles 6:15
    And Jehozadak went into exile when the Lord sent Judah and Jerusalem into exile by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar.
  6. Cross References
    Ezra 5:1
    Now the prophets, Haggai and Zechariah the son of Iddo, prophesied to the Jews who were in Judah and Jerusalem, in the name of the God of Israel who was over them.
  7. Cross References
    2 Samuel 7:2
    The king said to Nathan the prophet, "See now, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of God dwells in a tent.
    Psalms 132:3 - 5
    I will not enter my house or get into my bed.
  8. Cross References
    Nehemiah 2:3
    I said to the king, "Let the king live forever! Why should not my face be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' graves, lies in ruins, and its gates have been destroyed by fire?
    Nehemiah 2:17
    Then I said to them, "You see the trouble we are in, how Jerusalem lies in ruins with its gates burned. Come, let us build the wall of Jerusalem, that we may no longer suffer derision.
    Isaiah 64:11
    Our holy and beautiful house, where our fathers praised you, has been burned by fire, and all our pleasant places have become ruins.
    Jeremiah 33:10
    Thus says the Lord : In this place of which you say, 'It is a waste without man or beast,' in the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem that are desolate, without man or inhabitant or beast, there shall be heard again
    Jeremiah 33:12
    Thus says the Lord of hosts: In this place that is waste, without man or beast, and in all of its cities, there shall again be habitations of shepherds resting their flocks.
  9. 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:
  10. 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.
  11. 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
  12. 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.
  13. Cross References
    Haggai 1:5
    Now, therefore, thus says the Lord of hosts: Consider your ways.
  14. Cross References
    Psalms 132:13 - 14
    For the Lord has chosen Zion; he has desired it for his dwelling place:
  15. Cross References
    Haggai 2:9
    The latter glory of this house shall be greater than the former, says the Lord of hosts. And in this place I will give peace, declares the Lord of hosts.'
  16. Cross References
    Haggai 1:6
    You have sown much, and harvested little. 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 earns wages does so to put them into a bag with holes.
  17. Cross References
    Haggai 2:17
    I struck you and all the products of your toil with blight and with mildew and with hail, yet you did not turn to me, declares the Lord.
  18. Cross References
    Haggai 1:4
    Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while this house lies in ruins?
  19. Cross References
    Jeremiah 5:24 - 25
    They do not say in their hearts, 'Let us fear the Lord our God, who gives the rain in its season, the autumn rain and the spring rain, and keeps for us the weeks appointed for the harvest.
    Zechariah 8:12
    For there shall be a sowing of peace. The vine shall give its fruit, and the ground shall give its produce, and the heavens shall give their dew. And I will cause the remnant of this people to possess all these things.
    1 Kings 8:35
    When heaven is shut up and there is no rain because they have sinned against you, if they pray toward this place and acknowledge your name and turn from their sin, when you afflict them.
  20. Cross References
    2 Kings 8:1
    Now Elisha had said to the woman whose son he had restored to life, "Arise, and depart with your household, and sojourn wherever you can, for the Lord has called for a famine, and it will come upon the land for seven years.
    Psalms 105:16
    When he summoned a famine on the land and broke all supply of bread.
  21. Cross References
    Hosea 2:9
    Therefore I will take back my grain in its time, and my wine in its season, and I will take away my wool and my flax, which were to cover her nakedness.
  22. Cross References
    Haggai 2:17
    I struck you and all the products of your toil with blight and with mildew and with hail, yet you did not turn to me, declares the Lord.
    Psalms 128:2
    You shall eat the fruit of the labor of your hands; you shall be blessed, and it shall be well with you.
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