Haggai 1:3-6

The Command to Rebuild the Temple

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.

1. 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.
   
2. 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.
   
3. 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.
   
4. 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:
   
5. 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.
   
6. 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
   
7. 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.